Ed: Thanks for all the excellent information. I'm glad there are many Artist in the group.
Tim On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Several of you are producing video shorts or slide shows that are being > posted to YouTube or Vimeo. Most recently Barry Caselli, Jennifer Dudley, > and Andrew Joslin. Jennifer has been adding music from her collection to > fit the mood she is aiming for in the clips. For example in a clip from the > New York Botanical Garden she used the song "Out of the Woods" by > Nickelcreek. http://vimeo.com/7915881 Excellent. The trip to the garden > itself is set to music by Copland http://vimeo.com/7915881 These are great > for Vimeo. > > You would be amazed if you took the time to listen to the movies and nature > programs we see on television and the pervasiveness of background music. It > is there and we don't even notice it most of the time. I suppose my > revelation in this respect came when I watched a movie on the 1989 Bay > Bridge Collapse in California. The movie did not have any background music > - it was stark and different and that lack of background music just jumped > out at me. It was like a news on location shot.. > > However, I was thinking that if people wanted to add music, but did not > want to use proprietary music materials for their videos three are a couple > of sources you can choose from. at http://www.archive.org/index.php there > are many public domain works available, though they tend to favor older > music saved from 78's. There are other materials, you just need to search > through he archives for something appropriate. For those that want to > generate your own music but are not musicians, there is another option to > consider. Microsoft Music Producer (Windows platform - runs fine on Vista > and XP) http://www.musicmachines.net/faqmp.htm this site is a download > link and a patch for the program first released in 1996. It is a midi file > generator. it makes midi music clips in various styles. There are default > settings for several dozen music styles, along with options to change > instruments, tempo, key, length, personality, and shape of the music. it is > in effect elevator music-like but looking through he thousands of > combinations there are several that could be appropriate for a short nature > video or slide show. The can be mixed and matched. New Age and Romantic > Styles seem to work well. (Download the optional style pack) Be sure to > follow the instructions on the page or it will not work. > > Another option is to go with the natural background sound from the site. > There is also an option to sweeten the background sound. In this case sound > clips are added and mixed to provide more bird calls, water flowing, > waterfalls, or the like to the existing sound track. I really dislike > digitally altering to remove unwanted branches or leaves, to add things into > the photo that was not originally there, or to generally tidy-up the photo. > I am happy with digital manipulation of contrast, brightness ad the like to > bring out features that are already on the photo. So am not an extreme > purist, but still want veracity of my mages. The sound sweetening is > something on the same order. I don't want sounds added that are not found > at the location, but I can accept adding more natural sounds from the area > to what is present on a particular section of video tape, or replacing car > and truck sounds with natural sounds. Slide shows can add sounds to better > bring the images to life. One way to do this is to simple collect bird > calls and other sounds from your video tapes and save them as wave files > that can later be added to other clips. (I have some nice shrieking goshawks > attacking an owl.) > > Of course those of you who are musically inclined can create their own > custom music for their clips. I am not that talented. > > Ed Frank > > > > Check out my new Blog: http://nature-web-network.blogspot.com/ (and click > on some of the ads) > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to > [email protected]<entstrees%[email protected]> > -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
