Archive for the ‘Premiere’ Category
Premiere: the documentary; Denmark at WorldSkills 2005, Helsinki
yesterday I found this DVD Christian Mortensen and I made back in 2005.
we went 10 days to Helsinki and filmed the danish participation in WorldSkills 2005.
we had a wonderful time, and when we came home, we made this documentary, that later was bought by the danish company DKSkills and reproduced to certain levels of the danish ministry of education.
the documentary made in Premiere in 2005 can been seen in 3 parts here:
the documentary is mainly in danish, but parts of english and swedish also appear.
enjoy.
interested in other video-projects, be sure to check out:
the laid back jazz video project
an acoustic version of Map of your mind, by Muse
tracking progress of a video with Google Analytics
girl just screaming her lungs out
credits:
co-partner in video-crime Christian Mortensen
ActionScript 3.0: how to control panning of a SoundTransform Object / laid back jazz video
having seen a video by Morten Andreasen, I was inspired to do some similar stuff.
so I came up with this short, interactive music video of me playing a jazz-piece, enjoy.
the cool thing is absolutely that either the lead or the rhythm guitar can be muted, so if you find the muddy rhythm guitar the more interesting instrument, just unplug that bluesy lead!
the workflow:
the music was recorded in Garageband, the different video-tracks edited in After Effects and dubbed to the Garageband-track, and finally a FLV (Flash Video) file from After Effects was setup in Flash making the whole thing interactive. the nice track is originally by Muris Varajic .. by the way, it took me like forever to learn those crazy jazz rhythm chords 
for actionscripters:
the track is exported in stereo from Garageband with the rhythm guitar in one side and the lead guitar in the other side.
so when choosing one instrument in the video, what is actually is done is telling the SoundTransform Object that controls the panning of the NetStream what music to play. does it have to play full pan left, full pan right or no panning (balanced center between right and left).
the ActionScript (the panning bit):
if(e.currentTarget.name == "rhythm"){
videoVolumeTransform.pan = Math.round(-1);
} else if(e.currentTarget.name == "lead"){
videoVolumeTransform.pan = Math.round(1);
} else if(e.currentTarget.name == "duo"){
videoVolumeTransform.pan = Math.round(0);
} else {
//
}
stream.soundTransform = videoVolumeTransform;
}
other blogposts on music or video:
check out the video for Hawkeye and Hoe band
check out the acoustic variation on Map of your mind by Muse
check out this post on how to use ASCuePoints in ActionScript 3.0
check out this post on how to add a fullscreen option to your FLV’s
check out this post on how to loop an FLV using the FLVPlayBack component
credits:
Morten Andreasen and this video:
Muris Varajic from guitarmasterclass
video for Hawkeye and Hoe Band made in Premiere
a couple of years ago Simon Grevsen and I filmed a concert for the Hawkeye and Hoe Band.
we filmed this track twice in one night and from the 4 angles we created this video in Premiere.
the filming was great fun and making the video a nice challenge. the video is still worth a laugh 
check out the concert video with Hawkeye and Hoe band here
showcase: 2 videos for midtconsult
this summer I went to a 2 day conference at midtconsult in Herning.
I filmed a lot, and even made some interviews.
even though I had no light to support my camera and very little filming experience, the footage was good enough to make these 2 small films:
film 1 (mainly for external use):
http://campjohn.dk/AS3/Co3/MidtConsult/MC01.html
film 2 (mainly for internal use):
http://campjohn.dk/AS3/Co3/MidtConsult/MC02.html
the footage was edited in Premiere and exported to FLV.
each film is played in a nifty ActionScript 3.0 FLV player.
at the end of the day; a quite nice experience!
Map of your head by Muse, an acoustic variation
here’s a variation on the song Map of your head by Muse.
the variation is played by Simon Grevsen on a classic Kimbara.
the video is shot with a cheap Panasonic SDR-S10 camera, edited in Premiere, given an extra dimension in After Effects and finally set up with ActionScript 3.0 in Flash.
this project was set up with help from Esben Hindhede. thanks.
music. in Flash, Premiere and SoundBooth
here’s 4 ways of using music in flash.
1)
it’s quite easy to add music to Flash.
just use the Sound-object and it will work like this:
the music is started and stopped using the start and stop-buttons.
(and as this is just a experiment, the music can be started even though it already plays)
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2)
but how about a version using sharedObject.
this means that Flash now can remember stuff about the music and use this.
i. e. the music plays if the user was listening to the music the last time he was on the site.
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3)
this versions uses the sharedObject to remeber how far the user was in the music the last time he visited the site. the sharedObejct makes sure that the music will not start over from the start at the next visit, but play on from the point on which the user left the page on the last visit.
is used to define the position of the music, and a setInterval-function keeps updating the sharedObject on how much of the music is played.
this works, and it’s cool.
but there is one thing…
i. e. if the user had closed the site after the music had played 14 seconds on the last visit, the music will start from the 14th second and play until the end.
but then it would again start the music from the 14th second and play until the end. over and over again..
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4)
so to solve this problem I used this:
this means that the music will be played from the position it was exited at the last visit.
and now I no longer want the music to loop, instead I want this:
sound.start(0, 999);
}
this means that when the short version of the music has stopped, it will trigger a function that starts the music from the start and then loops this full version instead
this way the sharedObejct is only used to define how much of the music is to be played the first time.
music in Flash version 4
(the numbers in this Flash shows how much of the music is played… in milliseconds)
bonus-info: the track in these examples is a loop from the track Casettesingle from the album “Transparent things” with Fujiya & Miyagi.
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a couple of years ago Simon Grevsen and I filmed a concert for the Hawkeye and Hoe Band.
we filmed this track twice in one night and from the 4 angles we created this video in Premiere.
the filming was great fun and making the video a nice challenge. the video is still worth a laugh
check out the concert video with Hawkeye and Hoe band here
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having used Cool Edit Pro for all my editing audio and creating music for almost 3 years, I was very sad when the program was now longer for sale. recently I tried editing 2 tracks in SoundBooth instead and I must admit I liked it a lot. just playing around in SoundBooth I made these 2 tracks:
jazzy track made in SoundBooth
electronic track made in SoundBooth
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ActionScript 3.0 has made visualizing music much easier.
in ActionScript 2.0 it was a mess reading the music, and then visualizing it. and I could only manage doing it, if I knew the music in advance.
but with ActionScript 3.0 and the use of ByteArray, SoundMixer.computeSpectrum and readFloat visualizing music is no longer a pain.. AND it can be done runtime – this means that any piece of music can be visualized.
in the examples below an electro-loop is visualized – at first as a line and secondly as a box:
music visualized in Flash – as a line
music visualized in Flash – as a box