Thanks! You're absolutely right about the music, I knocked it up in Reason from a midi file because I'm not going to be marked on the musical content, and I wanted the end product to be totally free from copyright issues (my last sequence used a 30-second pre-cleared library music track, but there would still be large fee to put it up on youtube, in the region of £4 per view for the low number of hits it got), which rules out any proper orchestral recordings. It is fractionally sped up in the middle section too, only by 2 bpm though. I had a 40 second total duration limit, and by adding 2 bpm I got to a speed that where the beats hit exactly on the 25 fps frame boundaries for the fast cutting section, meaning that I could cut the video into 11, 22 or 33 frame chunks and the timing would always work. Another little trick I developed was to do a second version of the music with very staccato samples. This made cutting to the beat in the free tempo sections far easier, as the tiny waveform display in After Effects actually shows some dynamic variation, and was simply muted for the final render.<br>
<br>- Andy_R<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 January 2013 22:04, Komatos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:komatos@comcast.net" target="_blank">komatos@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>Wow! Pretty cool. Other than the music sounding a little like a sped-up GM version instead of the original instruments, nothing I can say wrong about it.<br><br>--komatos/wasted<div><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~komatos" target="_blank">home.comcast.net/~komatos</a></div>
<div>Twitter: @KomatosRecords</div><div><br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Andrew Robinson <<a href="mailto:andrew@bml.co.uk" target="_blank">andrew@bml.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br>
</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>At last I can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel, as my University year 3 semester 1 draws to a close, and I can catch up on the rest of life. I've only got a 24 hour "pressure project" tomorrow and I'm done for a few weeks. So, Merry Christmas, sorry I missed everyone over the holidays but, I was flat on my back for a week with some sort of virus (non musical, unless you count the coughing), Happy New Year, and that sampled piano track was great...<br>
<br>If anyone's interested in my Uni work, which is mostly Motion Graphics (although I'm doing a module that involves a lot of sound design later in the year), I've been forced to blog about it for my "Professional Practice" module. so here's a link to my block-buster title sequence, which I'm quite proud of: <br>
<br><a href="http://aboutbml.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/105/" target="_blank">http://aboutbml.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/105/</a><br><br>- Andy_R<br>
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