Inspired by YouTube

[fringe_dweller]

After bloodhound's video links to those great youtube vid's, I became inspired to see if I could make a slideshow with music of our shots of our website ect. and upload to YouTube myself - well after much frustration I made my first blockbuster :nerd: , but when uploaded to youtube, they mangled and reduced it too much for my liking.

So I have uploaded it to my personal webspace instead - I have been interested in combining my two great passions for a while after trying to make a dvd for my mate and myself a while ago - I noticed a soundtrack makes it interesting to view, something any film maker would know, take music out of a lot of movies these days and they would seem pretty dull possibly.

Anywayz - did use panning and zooming in imovie, (while it looked awesome, it didnt like it and behaved buggily, at least in 10.3.9 - need to start using 10.4.+ possibly,) which also made the file gigantic :scared: , none of them seem to like 'dissolve' between shots, except when you make a dvd, idvd works nice. anyway blah blah, so used iphoto instead, which was also buggy for this! buggy mac proggies, i'm shocked!

here's the 7.5 MB!!! quicktime movie link - its my first attempt! just dragged most of the pics of our website - and threw them in, different way of looking at them :) all pics from myself or Stewart

and Firefox might be the go as the browser? worked for me

http://southern-x.org/so_x/soxut.mov

anyone else game to make one?
and oh yeah turn up your sound!!!

[xelasnave]

I will try to download your work if the phone line allows it but I must say I have been working on a similar thing with two mates, one with a small adio recording studio and one with vast vidio and TV experience. The production was received very well by friends but we did nothing more and I have lost my copies anyways.
I thought it would be cool to have suitable eye candy to go with suitable ear candy to take a trip around the Universe to allow mortals to wonder at the grandness beauty and scale of it all.
You may have hit on a market need also.. a hoster that will carry larger files seems to be needed
alex

[fringe_dweller]

Sorry about the size :ashamed: (and the fact its not zipped!) but as you probably know Alex, an artiste must never compromise! :painting: :rofl:

Do you mean a slideshow with stills like this, or of video Alex?
I know windows media player does a similar thing, so I read, I don't know if thats the full version only tho.

I got the next version of ilife for my mac, and the HDidvd and HDimovie are both capable of doing widescreen and High Definition modes it says :)
as i said, never had a problem with idvd on the mac, just lacked the HD, that rocked for slideshows/music.

One problem i had, was they do a better job with large and quality web versions of your images, than small web versions, as the source, which means i have to go back and rescan quite a few shots to get a decent dvd version, unfortunately :scared: lotta work, thats why i liked the web version idea more :)

[xelasnave]

No luck on the download. I will be in Sydney soon and will try the wonderful broad band.
alex

[xelasnave]

Gotta go but one mate put together music he is a excellent muso best guitarist I have heard and the other laid over visuals suggested by the music. We did two the next was to be a trip thru the gallaxy and beyond done to hold the viewer in awe. Anways gotta log off will catch up with you on this as we are about to start the next "movie"\
alex

[Astroman]

UNREAL SEQUENCE KEARNE!!!!!!! I loved it, man that took me back to some good observing times. Especially of the comets and lunar occultation of Jupiter.

Credits to you!!!!

[Omaroo]

Congrats Kearn! :)

What a super image and sound sequence. LOVE the music - what is it? That hit of slide guitar into the solar eclipse sequence was a doozy - wonderfully timed.

Great effort! You may have started something......

Cheers
Chris

[Harb]

Cool , Great work...............I love my 1.5 Meg conection!!!

[jakob]

I enjoyed this.
Try to save to show my friends.

Nice work!

[Omaroo]

Shouldn't you be at the airshow by now? :P








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[[1ponders]]

Awesome Kearn. Fantastic slide show. You've put the bug in me now to go back over shots I've been collecting.

[RB]

Stunning work Kearn.

I didn't want it to end !!!

[beren]

Top stuff mate , enjoyed it :thumbsup:

[joe_smith]

where did the music come from ??? did you also do it as well, sounds unreal. Music with a guitar you dont hear that anymore on the top 40 :) Well done mate

[xstream]

Breathtaking stuff Kearn, I absolutely loved it.

The images and music were just made to go together. :thumbsup:

[spacezebra]

Excellent!

Beautiful images

[fringe_dweller]

wow thankyou guys!



look out! long winded waxing lyrical spiel 'wide load' following -

I wish it was one of mine LOL! nope, music is courtesy of a freakin genius :) someone who I, and many others, have long suspected of not being of this earth, a strange and wonderful gift from the universe to the people of earth.
He has been my numero uno influence and hero, by a looooong way, for over 25 years now, starting with his yardbirds days.
I will even have JB music therapy days when I'm in a bad way, just listen to all his albums especially from 'there and back', c1980, onwards, one after another (except for the awful '80s contractual obligation album 'flash'), and will come out buzzing and recharged!
I have always had the impression that quite a lot of his pieces had a strange space feel, wether intentional or not?, is it just the power of the strat?
some tracks would always remind me strongly of the feeling of nights under the stars (he does have some spacey tracks with titles like 'starcycle' and 'space boogie' on the George Martin produced/Jeff Beck masterpiece album 'there and back' but thats as far as the connection goes AFAIK?

There are several of his album tracks I could of easily used instead of this one - 'the final peace' off 'there and back' was a close second,

The track i used is the oddly named? 'why lord oh why?' (hehe) final track off his 2003 album simply called 'jeff'

I have to admit to being a Jeff Beck evangelist of sorts, and i have strong desire to influence people into knowledge and appreciation of his stuff - sorry!
check out some of his live clips on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jeff+beck&search=Search

here's a selection to give you a taste of the phenonemon that is jeff beck

a recent one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuK2msTzec

here's a space boogie type one 'star cycle'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yoiofXqzXE

and have to include the very beautiful 'nadia' - which is a staged part of a japanese interview (the Japanese appear to revere him like a God)
second of half of vid is the staged 'live' track spine tingling beck at his best imo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhZMUbJAAs

have had the great fortune to see him live twice - same tour, london hammersmith odeon c1990 'guitar shop' tour - and he is evn better live!!! never pays the same thing the same way twice - a total freak, just oozes talent :-)))) (hasnt been to oz since the '70's :sadeyes: )
buddy guy live is the only guitarist that has come close live imo

sorry bout the long post - get me talking on JB and you'll be sorry everytime :P

[fringe_dweller]

Sounds like an excellent worthy project Alex, i hope to see it one day soon mate, :) would be nice to go the whole hog and use my own stuff, one day maybe ;)

[Grus]

I did a couple of Moon composures for friends and family and easiest way to show them was YouTube

All done with 12" Dob and a humble digital camera, was a lot of fun

Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_fAO2ALYdo The Moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DzHoWxDBr0 August Moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7eHB8JK1A Partial Eclipse

Grus

[fringe_dweller]

you got 5 star ratings from me Grus :) excellent!! loved your production company name also :rofl:
youtube doesnt like preserving the quality of dissolves does it, at least thats what happened to me :shrug:

[ballaratdragons]

I started making an Astronomy CD video about a week ago with help from Terry (Spudrick).

Kearns and Grus's vids above are excellent and will keep me working on mine.

Great work guys.

[Grus]

Overall, the quality is quite good, couple of areas like the disolves as you pointed out, also the writing in blue was a big mistake, white in arial came out better in later videos, its all a learning curve.

Hoping next Dry Season to put together a nice collection of DSO's. but thats another adventure:lol:

Grus.

[fringe_dweller]

Cheers for the tips Grus,
I had another go at uploading it to youtube, this time I followed the instructions for maintaining some quality lol - I put a link to the better one there in the info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBTxebv9Y30

looking forward to your youtube debut Ken :thumbsup:

I got some more very nice responses (mostly private offlist emails) from around the globe on a couple of small yahoo groups to the better quality version - beaming! :)
also shouldnt of slagged off that mac editing proggie before updating the fresh version :doh: :ashamed:

[Grus]

Outstanding :party2:



That was terrific, you have raised the bar :bowdown:

[fringe_dweller]

hey thanks very muchly Grus :) tried to reply, (didnt realise it was you at the time tho doh! LOL!) but for some reason it didnt turn up on the page? will try another browser other than safari later.
cheers! go the aussie astro youtubers!