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Hi ya'll,
For producing a little music video for a song I made for my son's first
birthday, I was spending a lot of time over the weekend with getting started.
I never did anything with videos at all, so, it's all still pretty confusing.
What I have in mind:
using the six minutes audio file as a timeline for the video, laying a
mediaplayer visualisation over it (as sort of a main theme) and adding still
pictures of my son and some little video clips of him goofing around later.
What I already managed to do:
I downloaded a trial version of camtasia for the framegrabbing of the
visualizer, which worked pretty well.
I manually synchronized it to the .wav file in WMM.
I also put some titles over it which are somewhat synchronized to the lyrics
of the song, I didn't have problems to figure that out, either.
What I can't get to work:
I'd like the stills to just "fly around" thru the mediaplayer visualization.
I'd imagine something like just adding a transition, but not full frames of
the picture itself.
Otherwise, it appears that adding a picture into the timeline interferes
with the synchronization of the visualizer clip and the audio track.
Or is there a way to "lock" them somehow?
Even if I arrange the duration of the transitions in a way that they should
cover the entire length of the still clip, there are still a couple of frames
left which are messing up the audio/maintheme-clip relation.
From working with music sequencers, I'm used to multitracking.
Shouldn't there be something similar for videos, as well?
Or is WMM just not the right software for what I have in mind?
Besides that, I was wondering about the right file formats.
As for my son having both the american and the german citizenship, I'd like
to produce compatible versions for both family branches on the two continents.
The "raw" video material comes out of an NTSC-DV-Camcorder.
Should I stay with that format and convert it into PAL after the work is
done, or vice-versa? Or do I have to make two different versions from scratch?
I guess I'd have a million questions more to ask, but for now I'd gladly
apprecciate your help with the things I already asked, just to make sure I'm
getting it right and to figure out if I can realize my ideas this way.
Thanks in advance,
Dirk
For producing a little music video for a song I made for my son's first
birthday, I was spending a lot of time over the weekend with getting started.
I never did anything with videos at all, so, it's all still pretty confusing.
What I have in mind:
using the six minutes audio file as a timeline for the video, laying a
mediaplayer visualisation over it (as sort of a main theme) and adding still
pictures of my son and some little video clips of him goofing around later.
What I already managed to do:
I downloaded a trial version of camtasia for the framegrabbing of the
visualizer, which worked pretty well.
I manually synchronized it to the .wav file in WMM.
I also put some titles over it which are somewhat synchronized to the lyrics
of the song, I didn't have problems to figure that out, either.
What I can't get to work:
I'd like the stills to just "fly around" thru the mediaplayer visualization.
I'd imagine something like just adding a transition, but not full frames of
the picture itself.
Otherwise, it appears that adding a picture into the timeline interferes
with the synchronization of the visualizer clip and the audio track.
Or is there a way to "lock" them somehow?
Even if I arrange the duration of the transitions in a way that they should
cover the entire length of the still clip, there are still a couple of frames
left which are messing up the audio/maintheme-clip relation.
From working with music sequencers, I'm used to multitracking.
Shouldn't there be something similar for videos, as well?
Or is WMM just not the right software for what I have in mind?
Besides that, I was wondering about the right file formats.
As for my son having both the american and the german citizenship, I'd like
to produce compatible versions for both family branches on the two continents.
The "raw" video material comes out of an NTSC-DV-Camcorder.
Should I stay with that format and convert it into PAL after the work is
done, or vice-versa? Or do I have to make two different versions from scratch?
I guess I'd have a million questions more to ask, but for now I'd gladly
apprecciate your help with the things I already asked, just to make sure I'm
getting it right and to figure out if I can realize my ideas this way.
Thanks in advance,
Dirk