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Re: Another New Video



Rainer,

On Oct 31, 2011, at 3:55 AM, Rainer Straschill wrote:

> Frankly, I was more interested in how you did the video here* ;). Did I 
> miss the explanation in your mail, or did you decide not to "dance about 
> architecture" in that case?

I did not

It is fairly simple actually.

In iMovie, I placed a few hundred (500-600) still images from my 
collection of things gathered and created over decades - personal images, 
things I created, things I like, or that mean something to me.

I essentially made a slide show with no transitions between images (no 
crossfades or wipes, just instant change) and set the duration of each 
image to a mere fraction of a second (0.0625 sec.).

Yet, this was still not fast enough, so I brought the resulting video clip 
into another program, HyperEngine Montage, where I could speed it up even 
more.

I made two versions - one clip had about 12.5 frames per second, and the 
other one 25 (about as fast as video will allow).

Still in HyperEngine Montage, I superimposed these two video streams on 
top of one another and did an extremely slow (4 minute long) crossfade 
between them.

What you see at the beginning of the video (after the count-in and title 
etc.) is the slide show at 12.5 frames per second..

Ever so slowly, this transitions (via the long crossfade) to one that is 
twice as fast - which is what you see at the end.

This is why there is all the mish mash of oddly flickering images in the 
middle section (where, by design, the music gets a bit odd and mixed up 
too).

I am just learning this stuff.

The other couple of videos that I posted a month or two ago were created 
from royalty-free stock VJ loops that I bought a few libraries of and 
cobbled together.

This video was all original from me (as far as content goes).

In many ways I feel the video is more successful than the music.

But neither is especially great.

I can do better . . . and hope to.

Like I said, I am still learning.

Best,

Ted