The Video Log - What Did You Do In Your Video Studio

[PatchAdamz]

speaking of pro, here's a couple of opposite of that

repetitive and goes nowhere
the visual part is almost zero effort
it was just a matter of synching the beat

Funny, I recognized those shoes immediately....
Best scene from the film....
Pee Wee forever!

[PatchAdamz]

New music/video.....

Lovely track and a great video. You have some real talent here. Maybe you should turn pro, if you're not already?

Thanks....

No, not pro, just always wanted to learn this stuff.
I was a pro recording engineer for a long time, this is harder to learn because the process is not very intuitive, but I am forcing myself to learn.
I don't think there is a market for this kind of stuff so it takes spending a lot of time on something that pays nothing, not very practical.

But I am determined to be as good as possible at it so.....

Another new one...

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

New music/video.....

Lovely track and a great video. You have some real talent here. Maybe you should turn pro, if you're not already?

Thanks....

No, not pro, just always wanted to learn this stuff.
I was a pro recording engineer for a long time, this is harder to learn because the process is not very intuitive, but I am forcing myself to learn.
I don't think there is a market for this kind of stuff so it takes spending a lot of time on something that pays nothing, not very practical.

But I am determined to be as good as possible at it so.....

Another new one...

*LONG EXPOSITION ALERT*

Well, not to sound like some rabid fanboi but you obviously have some skills there!

Yeah.. I'm a retired software engineer/musician and have played SOME instrument since I was 15, when I cleared land to buy a cheap Tele copy and pissed off my parents! Kept at it and gpt decent, but my career went wild and sucked up my time. When I got married, my wife played guitar and sang and I was so stupid in love that I switched to keys (lol) and let her take the lead on things. Divorced now but due to diabetes feeling in my hands sucks, so the keys ended up being my focus. Did some gamedev work for 8 years and got into animation due to that, and now all my pent-up random creativity melds with my inner darkness and BOOM! You get 'Suitcase Of Lizards'.

With enough practice, I'll get half as good as you are, lolololollll!

My ex now works in a florist shop in Germany and has quit music, which is too bad as she spent a ton on recording engineer classes. Engineering, for me, isn't easy which is likely why my music sucks! Another thing to work on, arghhhh!

[cryophonik]

Another new one...

That’s very cool! I’ve dabbled with After Effects in the past (for animating our photo service logo), but never got very good at it. I’d love to integrate it into some of my music videos to augment the live video footage, but, ugh, finding the time…

[4damind]

I mostly use Davinci, and used to use AE more often. If I'm not in the mood and just need a Visualizer, I like to use Vizzy. It goes up to 4K and is free... Sometimes I also make a clip in Vizzy or Canva and then edit it in Davinci... Anyway, I made the little Visualizer video today in about 20min in Vizzy.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I mostly use Davinci, and used to use AE more often. If I'm not in the mood and just need a Visualizer, I like to use Vizzy. It goes up to 4K and is free... Sometimes I also make a clip in Vizzy or Canva and then edit it in Davinci... Anyway, I made the little Visualizer video today in about 20min in Vizzy.

Very nice.

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Le sigh.

All day fighting Visual Synthesizer. Still frustrated beyond words, though. The layer blend modes don't work the way I'm used to in any other app. The menu system has small but irritating quirks that slow me up. Changing a material color doesn't influence the entire material (!!). Alpha blending doesn't work like other apps.

It still has its uses, but hitting all this early on has made me realize I'll hit the wall with this in short order.

Time to byte the bullet and attack Resolve/Fusion and see how far I can get with that. If I can get Fairlight to wok properly with all my plugins, I can do the composition work for video right there in the same app. Talk about a time-saver!

Otherwise, it's Adobe CC/After Effects. I am Lizard of Borg, you will be assimil.. wait.. coffee!

[4damind]

I mostly use Davinci, and used to use AE more often. If I'm not in the mood and just need a Visualizer, I like to use Vizzy. It goes up to 4K and is free... Sometimes I also make a clip in Vizzy or Canva and then edit it in Davinci... Anyway, I made the little Visualizer video today in about 20min in Vizzy.

Very nice.

Thanks a lot
Especially with videos, you always have to weigh up the effort and the expected benefit very carefully. If you also work with 3D etc., you don't have time to make music. The graphics stuff is very time consuming and, just like the music, often takes years of practice and experience to get it looking reasonable (IMO).

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

Mah brainz hert!!

5 TUTORIALS it took to find the easy way to keyframe in Resolve/Fusion! WTF?? Nothing ike in any of the apps I'm used to, sheesh, talk about inobvious. Anyway, next I need to learn to retime keyframes and that'll move me closer to making the entire video in Resolve/Fusion.

THE PAIN, BOSS, THE PAIN!

[BONES]

It depends what you are used to. I haven't used either in a very long time but, from memory, Fusion/Resolve worked exactly as I'd expected them to.



The 3D pipes were done in Blender, everything else was done in After Effects.



This was done 100% in After Effects, using Video Co-Pilot's Element 3D plugin.



This was done 100% in Autodesk Combustion, still my preferred motion design tool.

My bandmate is working on a new video for our next single, using AI to do all the legwork, then putting it together in DaVinci Resolve. Most of the AI tools will only do four second clips so it's still a lot of manual work.

[harryupbabble]

oh. my. gawd.
my suckiness amazes me
hahaha
here is an example of my terrible, terrible, attempt at writing lyrics
musicwise, i guess i was trying to make it sound like bauhaus
videowise, i'm like "what do i care?"
so many things to first improve at, besides visuals
so little time
where is that immortality pill already

[PatchAdamz]

This weeks audio visualizer video:

This audio visualizer was designed around the concept of sympathetic resonance.

Sympathetic resonance is the harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness.

With this in mind, the audio is used to "resonate" the visual elements of the video.

The videos was created in Adobe After effects, music was created using Cubase.
Several visual technologies are used including particles, custom audio visualizer, geometry, ect.
The audio frequencies are effecting several aspects of the particles, light, movement and color.

[PatchAdamz]

Mah brainz hert!!

5 TUTORIALS it took to find the easy way to keyframe in Resolve/Fusion! WTF?? Nothing ike in any of the apps I'm used to, sheesh, talk about inobvious. Anyway, next I need to learn to retime keyframes and that'll move me closer to making the entire video in Resolve/Fusion.

THE PAIN, BOSS, THE PAIN!

Your doing great SOL, you have stuck with it so far and yes, its difficult.
A lesser man would have flown south by now, you have stuck with it.

[PatchAdamz]

Another new one...

That’s very cool! I’ve dabbled with After Effects in the past (for animating our photo service logo), but never got very good at it. I’d love to integrate it into some of my music videos to augment the live video footage, but, ugh, finding the time…

Yea, your right about that.....time..

Music takes enough time to do right but video takes so much more it seems.

Bend back the hands of time...........

[PatchAdamz]

oh. my. gawd.
my suckiness amazes me
hahaha

A wise man once said......

"Dont worry about sucking at first, every one sucks until they dont...."

-Ann Chovey