Music Video + HVX

xilixfilms said:
It could have been great if the misterious guy could have been his ex boy friend that died or something.

Great video man!
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I'll assume you meant her exboyfriend, but it's funny you should mention that. I worked on a lot of different stories for the narrative, and one of the earlier conceptions paralleled that thought.

It was about a dead/ghost boyfriend who died in a car accident and was trying to communicate to his girlfriend that he was still there watching over her.

But I decided to scratch that idea in favor of the angel story.
 
Looks graet man, awesome video.

Great introduction to it.

I think it might benefit from a little crushing of the blacks, it just seems like the gain was on or something for some of the shots. Really gray...

but great video!
 
cool video

cool video

cool video.
i liked the narrative parts.

i think u need to create more energy; even though it's a slow song. i think a few more cuts or movement of the camera could do that for you.

can't wait to see ur next one.
 
Wow!!! Artistically, a masterpiece. I loved everything about it and I'm an old fartty classicaly composer who doesn't even like rock and roll. The music was great, the concept and execution was genius. This piece deserves to go far. BE sure to market it as well as you can. You've really got a winner. Now I'll look at it again and try to appreciate all the gamma, detail, frame rate mumbo jumbo crap. The hvx served you well but it didn't give you your talent. Keep up the good work and quit your day job.
 
Very nice work. I really liked the overall recording of the band (I'm a pro toools guy, what can I say). I like the cross cuts between the narrative and the band and those shots where the band members appear out of nowhere is an interesting effect.

You've got some serious talent my friend.
 
That was really nice. I loved the song and the video for once. The HVX sho' do look great. The pacing was on point I though and the cross fades worked here.
 
Great video guy, what the hell kinda compression do you use to upload your videos in such high quality? I use premiere pro 1.5, i see you all mainly use QT, any advice on how to get a high quality small sized video uploaded would be great, thanks, Doug.
 
It's a video codec by Apple called H.264. You can check it out on the quicktime.com site. I'm not sure if Adobe Premiere Pro can export .mov files or use that codec. But you should look into it. I use FCP to edit.
 
For anyone interested, I got together with a couple of the band members and made a podcast talking about the music video. It's not as technical as I could've made it, but it at least gives you some insight into the creative process and how it all went done.

So download at your leisure!

http://www.vanst3r.com/musicvideopodcast.mp3

If there are any other questions about the 'making of', I'm definitely more than happy to field them.
 
Excellent! great job, I love it! Good Music and lots of talent.

Can you please give me step by step instructions on the compression of this video... so I can do the same
when I get my HVX. I really love the quality!
 
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Estebeverde - That last shot was very hard to do. We were on a scissorlift and we just tried to track back twice - once with the singer in the frame and once without. Before the shot we marked where the lift began on the ground so we could move it back to that point for the second shot. The speed of the lift was pretty variable, but we tried our best to track at the same rate.

In post (FCP), I had to do some frame matching because I think the camera got bumped a little bit between shots. So I enlargened the frames a bit so I could move around one shot to match the other. Then after about 100 attempts, a little skill and a little luck, I got the frames to blend perfectly.

Omiemac - as far as step by step instructions for exporting, it really depends on what NLE you are using to edit on. I used Final Cut Pro, and the process went something like this.
1) File --> Export --> Quicktime Conversion
2) Click the Option button next to the Quicktime Format
3) Click Settings and use the H.264 codec (the HD codec for quicktime)
4) Click Size to resize your image (remember to keep the same proportions)
**For my video I resized it to about 33%, which was 426 width x 240 height.
(The width is actually 426.66, but when I rounded up it added a blank green line on the frame, so you don't want that!)
5) Make sure the box is checked for Internet Streaming if you plan on making it available online.

I think that was about it. The H.264 codec is pretty freakin' sweet when it comes to data compression.
 
aravance said:
Estebeverde - That last shot was very hard to do. We were on a scissorlift and we just tried to track back twice - once with the singer in the frame and once without. Before the shot we marked where the lift began on the ground so we could move it back to that point for the second shot. The speed of the lift was pretty variable, but we tried our best to track at the same rate.

In post (FCP), I had to do some frame matching because I think the camera got bumped a little bit between shots. So I enlargened the frames a bit so I could move around one shot to match the other. Then after about 100 attempts, a little skill and a little luck, I got the frames to blend perfectly.

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That's incredible!!!!

My guess was you shot static and then used a virtual camera for the movement.

The fact that you actually pulled this off with a shaky scissors lift is INCREDIBLE!

There are some talented ass people on this board!

Man!

Humbling!
 
Nice video bro! I really like the hvx grain in this case!! looks like it was shot on 16mm. But I would use the nd filter in the warehouse...
 
Very nice, great video too! The warehouse shots where sharp although I preferred the warm color of the "story" shots. Nice compression.
 
aravance said:
Estebeverde - That last shot was very hard to do. We were on a scissorlift and we just tried to track back twice - once with the singer in the frame and once without. Before the shot we marked where the lift began on the ground so we could move it back to that point for the second shot. The speed of the lift was pretty variable, but we tried our best to track at the same rate.

In post (FCP), I had to do some frame matching because I think the camera got bumped a little bit between shots. So I enlargened the frames a bit so I could move around one shot to match the other. Then after about 100 attempts, a little skill and a little luck, I got the frames to blend perfectly.

Omiemac - as far as step by step instructions for exporting, it really depends on what NLE you are using to edit on. I used Final Cut Pro, and the process went something like this.
1) File --> Export --> Quicktime Conversion
2) Click the Option button next to the Quicktime Format
3) Click Settings and use the H.264 codec (the HD codec for quicktime)
4) Click Size to resize your image (remember to keep the same proportions)
**For my video I resized it to about 33%, which was 426 width x 240 height.
(The width is actually 426.66, but when I rounded up it added a blank green line on the frame, so you don't want that!)
5) Make sure the box is checked for Internet Streaming if you plan on making it available online.

I think that was about it. The H.264 codec is pretty freakin' sweet when it comes to data compression.
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Perfect, I use FCP 5 too.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
 
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