Trouble by Cat Stevens - for Alias

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[mairdie]

Try Here She Comes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3UXhZo428&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCoQCUuR4xFyCVRaUO9OtDDm&index=4

Definitely Paul’s favorite.

I love the Richard Sheridan piece. I don’t play any instrument and I was desperate to be able to hear the 18th century music in Henry Livingston’s music manuscript, so Paul got me a transcription program called Mozart which let me put in each note, and it would then generate a MIDI file so I could finally hear it. Purchased an original score of The Duenna and transcribed most of it into Mozart since it was obviously a favorite with Livingston. Then started putting TV shows to the various songs. If a Daughter You Have cried out for Alias.

[boycott]

Paul has exceptional taste. I think I may have to watch that a few more times tonight. Very impressive.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Somebody posted a solution to that here years ago. Focus on a later lyric in the same song. Works for me.

[boycott]

So you actually put the music to the videos? If so, very impressive.

[mairdie]

Well, you start with the music, not the video. I started working with two VHS VCRs back in 1986. Then I got into Beta so I could pre-roll. These days it’s all digital, so you use the wave form to find your music phrases. You set the target phrase, then you search for video that matches the interpretation of the poetry of the lyrics, or continues the theme through a music bridge. You’re looking for video that has a natural end motion, then you back count to make sure the start of the scene you’re putting in will work. Then overwrite black on the target song and you’re home. You just have to do it every 2-4 seconds! I taught a whole generation of music video students over the years in my home and in workshops at conventions. I’ve made over 700 of them now, with about 620 of them up on my YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKo6Ll07wmk8TeGx9PShukg/playlists

[mairdie]

You’d probably also like Brown-eyed Girl and Kodachrome, but those can’t go on YouTube. Download and unpack to play.

http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/aliassong.htm

[boycott]

Nice Work!

I watched all the Alias videos! I love nature videos so I watched a few with the birds.

You have a great talent!

[mairdie]

I can’t thank you enough, Boycott. I love sharing them. People used to write asking me for audio tapes of the videotapes because they could play them in their heads. They’d write about standing in a grocery laughing outrageously because they could see images to the musak no one else could see. Making these is an obsession, I know, but I love being obsessive. You get so much more done. The birds were such fun. I stood on top of a ladder with my camera on an upside down huge flower pot and stood in a blinding heat wave for an hour waiting for the first bird to fly. IT DID! Got to the top of the house and my battery went dead. But everything I do is such joy. You just put in a new battery and go on to the next joy.