Arrhythmia - My Original Song + Music Video

[Chexjc]

I made this music video for my Intro to Video Production class. The song is an original I've been writing for some time.

Anyway, this isn't necessarily the final cut, but more of a rough cut...unless I decide it doesn't need any adjustment.

So, I'd appreciate any comments, whether they be positive or negative. I'm also open to any advice.

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/736399 (Higher Quality)
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZveoYwAU94 (Slightly Lower Quality)

[sugarloafur]

That was awesome and I wouldn't change a thing. You're very talented... the song flows really well.

[Chexjc]

That was awesome and I wouldn't change a thing. You're very talented... the song flows really well.

Thanks! :)

[Ducttape]

That was awesome and I wouldn't change a thing. You're very talented... the song flows really well.
100 percent agreement on my part!

[john_childs]

I like it. The music and playing is good and the video captures a mood.

Is the music during the credits the guitar playing backwards?

A critical comment about video quality. There are interlacing artifacts (http://www.100fps.com/) in the video (at least in the high quality version). Video clips intended for playback on a computer need to be deinterlaced.

[Chexjc]

I like it. The music and playing is good and the video captures a mood.

Is the music during the credits the guitar playing backwards?

Thanks John!

Yeah the credit music is a recording of me playing guitar, in reverse. (a different song though)

You're right about the video, I forgot to de-interlace it. I'm new to Final Cut Pro and this is my first small-scale production video. I'll fix that and re-post it after it compresses again.

[rob.northcott]

Nice little film. Not really my taste in music (I think I've said that before) but very well played, and the film is really professional looking.

Rob

[Chexjc]

Nice little film. Not really my taste in music (I think I've said that before) but very well played, and the film is really professional looking.

Rob

Thank you Rob. Hopefully it's professional-looking enough to earn me an A :).

John, I de-interlaced the video (at least I think I did...) and the credits now look choppy:confused:. Maybe I should'nt have deinterlaced the credits? Anyway, my eye isn't trained enough to even tell the difference between the quality of the previous and the now, de-interlaced video. I think I'll leave both videos as they are on the internet right now. I'll be playing it by DV tape for my class anyway.

[Spoonthumb]

dude the first time i ever heard your music i said to myself "man that sounds like an ovation" what do you know :)

[Chexjc]

dude the first time i ever heard your music i said to myself "man that sounds like an ovation" what do you know :)

Haha. Where did you first hear my music? I have a number of guitars, only one Ovation though. :) That is by far the 'prettiest' guitar I own.

[john_childs]

John, I de-interlaced the video (at least I think I did...) and the credits now look choppy:confused:. Maybe I should'nt have deinterlaced the credits? Anyway, my eye isn't trained enough to even tell the difference between the quality of the previous and the now, de-interlaced video. I think I'll leave both videos as they are on the internet right now. I'll be playing it by DV tape for my class anyway.
The jumpy or choppy credits is a side-effect of some deinterlacing algorithms. Check to see if your software gives you a choice of deinterlacing methods or an option to change some of the parameters.

A quick and dirty way of deinterlacing that avoids deinterlacing artifacts is to simply reduce the resolution of the video by half in the vertical and horizontal. So a 640x480 video becomes 320x240. The smaller resolution is fine for things like YouTube and you end up with a cleanly deinterlaced video. Computers are very good at scaling up video as it plays so the 320x240 video will still look fine even when stretched to play at a larger size.

[Spoonthumb]

Haha. Where did you first hear my music? I have a number of guitars, only one Ovation though. :) That is by far the 'prettiest' guitar I own.

you posted a song up a will back, it was the one were you were asking for a title, you used an ovation for that one to right?

anyway, thats my next guitar, i play my gibson (electric) and my moms Takamine(acoustic)

anyway, amazing

[Chexjc]

The jumpy or choppy credits is a side-effect of some deinterlacing algorithms. Check to see if your software gives you a choice of deinterlacing methods or an option to change some of the parameters.

I'm not really sure how to adjust the deinterlacing settings on FCP, but I'm sure it's possible. Thanks for the advice though.

you posted a song up a will back, it was the one were you were asking for a title, you used an ovation for that one to right?

anyway, thats my next guitar, i play my gibson (electric) and my moms Takamine(acoustic)

anyway, amazing

Nah, that was an old (late 80's-early 90's) Samick. A low end guitar, but it was preserved nicely and has nice tone and percussive sounds.

The Ovation Celebrity is a good mid range guitar though. I don't particularly love it for performance settings because it's awkward to stand up with (with the rounded back). But I sit down when I play most of the time anyway.

Thanks though!

[dan de man]

DUDE i envy you so much,that was awsome
that is exactly the kind of music i like!
you should submit it to some compition

your song=perfection


EDIT: lovedthe harmonics

[MuniAddict]

I'm not really sure how to adjust the deinterlacing settings on FCP, but I'm sure it's possible. Thanks for the advice though. I don't know anything about "deinterlacing", but a little google search yielded this:

Difficult - Interlaced Video to Progressive
Content that was originally created in the interlaced video format is difficult to deinterlace, and this is where one technique from one company can be superior to that of another.

In interlaced video, each half frame is actually captured at a different moment in time as the camera is shooting. As a result, the pixels in every other line are simply not there. Using various algorithms, deinterlacing methods analyze the pixels in the lines above and below the missing lines and conjure up new pixels for the missing lines. See interlace (http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=interlace&i=56776,00.asp), DCDi (http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=DCDi&i=40964,00.asp) and 3:2 pulldown (http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=32+pulldown&i=37020,00.asp).

[Chexjc]

DUDE i envy you so much,that was awsome
that is exactly the kind of music i like!
you should submit it to some compition

your song=perfection


EDIT: lovedthe harmonics

:) Thanks a lot man, that's nice to hear haha. I love harmonics as well.

[dan de man]

yeah man the tapping way a neat idea