OH MY GOD, Check out this video!!!!

NO! Its real, he did it all with editing. He just grabbed the notes and edited them togethor that way. Is that insane or what????

The guy is farking BRILLIANT. My god.
 
This is pretty creative. It says, he can't play the drums ???, well he at least knows how to edit footage to create an actual drum beat.
 
The drum beat plus the piano togethor is just mind boggling to me that he could think this up and do it through editing. It puts into perspective what moby, aphex twin and fatboy slim churn out though.
 
am I being a hater if Im not impressed by this?

I am however a prof. paid editor....
and I can tell you how he did it...

The instruments you see him play....arent what are being heard....
He laid down an audio track....took 20 shots of himself and assembled it.

There are tutorials on the FCP board how to do this very easily. Mark points from listening to the song and cutting the slated video to the beat....insert edit..insert edit.

Its impossible to get clean cuts for the instruments with reverb on it....each and every time you make an edit of that speed, it would cut off the sound as well...The soundtrack is a seperate piece, and he edited the pictures to that....

Listen, the soundtrack is perfect....too perfect ;)


So the only talent I see is having a bunch of free time to paste together these cuts.....
 
watch it another 50 times as I have, you'll see this isn't the case.

Case in point, at one point, the only time he hits the china symbol, he didn't even mean to, the stick flew out of his hand and quickly grazed it by the handle, then hit on the tip as it flipped. That sound comes through perfectly. Its at :52.

Impossible to get clean cuts for the instruments? How do bands record then? And its obvious he has pretty good audio equipment.

I would actually be MORE impressed if he took samples and somehow managed to perfectly time the audio with video of him hittin the drums. Matching Foley to the scene is way harder than actually capturing live sound in my experience.

Watch his beatbox video. You can see how well he can capture audio and put it togethor to sound, in your own words, "perfect".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9698TqtY4A&mode=related&search=

So, are you a hater? No. Jaded however? Maybe just a bit. ;)
 
s4manturbo said:
am I being a hater if Im not impressed by this?

I am however a prof. paid editor....
and I can tell you how he did it...

The instruments you see him play....arent what are being heard....
He laid down an audio track....took 20 shots of himself and assembled it.

There are tutorials on the FCP board how to do this very easily. Mark points from listening to the song and cutting the slated video to the beat....insert edit..insert edit.

Its impossible to get clean cuts for the instruments with reverb on it....each and every time you make an edit of that speed, it would cut off the sound as well...The soundtrack is a seperate piece, and he edited the pictures to that....

Listen, the soundtrack is perfect....too perfect ;)


So the only talent I see is having a bunch of free time to paste together these cuts.....
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I think the music we "see" is the same as what we hear. It looks like the guy filmed himself 1 beat at a time then took all those beats and created a song out of them. The audio was probably mixed first then the video clips were added in by simply match framing each clip (and probably some massaging of a video edit here or there).

Like David Jimerson said, it's pretty much loop based music creation w/video of each beat being recorded included.

It's fun and creative, but not necessarily anything to flip out over, IMO.


-A
 
Of course thats what it is. But can you imagine the amount of time it took to edit this? In my first post I said "its some of the sickest editing i've ever seen".

Thats what I found amazing. Most loop editing is predesigned to be a loop and consists of multiple notes or cords. This is one beat at a time looping, which just his drum rant at 2:28 is incredible.

I guess I'm just easily impressed.
 
David Jimerson said:
This looks to be about the same as looping, but leaving the video in.
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Agreed. I'd say he's more of a music editor than a video editor.
 
Capt Quirk said:
You have that right!

P.S. After watching a couple more of this guys clips, I have come to the conclusion that it snows a lot where he is, and it must keep him inside for months at a stretch!
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that's norway for you. (his name is Lasse Gjertsen and that's where he resides)

and for all the haters out there that say it's somehow fake or something (it's not by the wayofcourse it's not actua) I have only one thing to say:

Where is your genious video that gathers millions of viewers? The facination isn't whether or not he's a good editor or if it's easy to do but that he came up with something noone else does. Same way the mentos/diet coke video is ingenious. it has nothing to do with editing, sound or skills but with originality.

and anyone who has a T-shirt saying "****" in norwegian deserves respect :o)

[EDIT: for those who want to learn how to swear in Norwegian, Lasse's video "Lasse vs. Teknologi II" is excellent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTgQoDtkFuA&mode=related&search= [end edit]


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The guy's freakin' brilliant. A serious talent. As far as I can tell he COMPOSED the song by editing various notes/beats. He's not performing someone else's song--it's HIS. It's visually stunning and I love the song. I've watched it about 5 times now. His other shorts are extremely creative as well.
 
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