Made with Magic Visuals: Dating Tips & Bowling Tricks
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:52 pm
Hi there!
How this video was made:
Two public domain educational films, ("Dating Tips" and "Bowling Aces") downloaded from archive.org and other online resources; plus a few snippets from The Big Lebowski.
All video was pre-prepared using Adobe Premiere Elements 13, a $69-$99 program. All effects come from that app.
One big video was rendered out, instead of a handful of small videos. My laptop can handle this for live performance.
This is a portion of my 45-minute set I do, all with a handful of songs and prepared videos.
I created the opening montage, including lettering.
After creating the longer opening section, all the rest of the snippets were placed at 20 second intervals.
I played the music and triggered the videos all in one pass, while playing the synth parts on a 61-key controller and a Launchpad using Ableton Live 9 plus Magic Visuals 1.4.x. And of course, the part at the end is from one of the modules, I forget which one, that generates a piano-roll type effect.
I was mildly bothered by the fact that Magic doesn't have a recording function for its output, or at the very least, some sort of timeline sequencer.
But I worked around that -- thank goodness for Quicktime 10, it has a video capture function at a high enough resolution for this kind of thing.
Then I had to align the recorded audio after-the-fact using Premiere Elements.
Here's the result!
(Check out the other videos on my YouTUbe Channel as well.)
How this video was made:
Two public domain educational films, ("Dating Tips" and "Bowling Aces") downloaded from archive.org and other online resources; plus a few snippets from The Big Lebowski.
All video was pre-prepared using Adobe Premiere Elements 13, a $69-$99 program. All effects come from that app.
One big video was rendered out, instead of a handful of small videos. My laptop can handle this for live performance.
This is a portion of my 45-minute set I do, all with a handful of songs and prepared videos.
I created the opening montage, including lettering.
After creating the longer opening section, all the rest of the snippets were placed at 20 second intervals.
I played the music and triggered the videos all in one pass, while playing the synth parts on a 61-key controller and a Launchpad using Ableton Live 9 plus Magic Visuals 1.4.x. And of course, the part at the end is from one of the modules, I forget which one, that generates a piano-roll type effect.
I was mildly bothered by the fact that Magic doesn't have a recording function for its output, or at the very least, some sort of timeline sequencer.
But I worked around that -- thank goodness for Quicktime 10, it has a video capture function at a high enough resolution for this kind of thing.
Then I had to align the recorded audio after-the-fact using Premiere Elements.
Here's the result!
(Check out the other videos on my YouTUbe Channel as well.)