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The Videomaker's Journey: part
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My comments on fonts for titles (above) apply here too.
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Clip 4, Mum's The Word |
Clip 8, The Problem with Harry |
Clip 12, the second part is an |
Leave this to be the last job - if you alter the edit after the music is added - you can run into a lot of strife, it takes experience to handle the problems.
Royalty-free music is now readily available for amateur movie makers. I have
two sources:
"this music is produced under the creative commons licence, which to
all intents and purposes is absolutely royalty free even for commercial
purposes. As a club (Newcastle Video Makers Inc. (Australia) we have Kevin's permission to download and present his works on a DVD and inform you that "his works are royalty free" and be able to sell it as a fund raising project. The creative commons licence requires that this permission be granted. The key feature being to be able to tell you "that you may use it for free". You need to read the licence to understand that, but that is what we have to do. We also pay him a royalty on each disk that we sell. What we have done is collect it all together, convert those that needed converting to Mp3 format, we have indexed them and we have saved you a lot of download time and bandwidth which you have to pay for. Also we use the proceeds for our club projects. We are an incorporated club, which means "not for profit" and we are publicly audited each year. We do more than a few community projects each year without any charge. Our most successful series has been for the local riding for the disabled association, who, with our help have won two international "riding display" competitions, that are judged via the video medium that associations enter, instead of all travelling all over the world." Buyers in Australia should send $10 (AUS) plus $5 (AUS) postage = $15 (AUS) total for each Disc. Buyers overseas from Australia should send $10 (USA) plus $5 (USA) postage = $15 (USA) total for each Disk. The URL to the Club's Web Page is www.nvm.org.au . |
Kevin Macleod also has royalty free music you pay for. His web page advises that if you need some type of music that is not available, contact him at, mail to <kevin@incompetech.com> he cannot produce all requests - but he will consider them all.
Trimming the music
Overlap the music fades onto the ends of the dialogue. Beware of placing music behind the dialogue - it is difficult to find the correct volume that won't cause hearing problems - best to avoid it.
Adjust the music volume and fade it at the ends
Use the DVD audio calibrator - as described in Step
6 - "Adjust The Dialogue Audio Volume."
Take care with the iLink cable connection.
If you force this connection into the socket - the wrong way - you will need
a costly repair to your video equipment. A Sony Service Centre has reported
that this is the most common fault that they have to repair.
Editing is as much an artistic function of movie making as the script writing, camera work and acting, and should be approached as such.
Perhaps the best tip that can be given to a beginner editor is to look at as many short videos and television programmes as possible in the particular genre of interest. Comedy and drama are edited differently to documentaries and there are many cases where the rules have been disregarded but with surprising effect.
Just go for it!
And get a third party to critique your work.
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© copyright Arthur Bullock, 2008