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Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

Last post 09-25-2008, 6:20 by Oleg. 5 replies.
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  •  06-10-2008, 6:36 193980

    Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

    Dear Studio addicts,

    I am a French user of our favourite video software and wanted, if you allow me to, to show also our anglo-saxon friends what can be done with Studio. I own Studio 11 Ultimate and a couple of plug-ins (like Bravo 1 and 2 Packs). With those I made the music video clip LUDIE GIRL, on the music of BARBIE GIRL.

    Ludie is the short form for Ludivine van de Spock an imaginary grand-daughter of Mr. Spock from Star Trek, half belgian, half vulcan (French people always make jokes about Belgians, and yes, I know, it's bad Stick out tongue). She sings about French politics, from a humanist and Vulcan point of view, in French, unfortunately ; but the meaning of linking my video here in this forum is just to show you what Studio made possible from a technical point of view. And there is still the music Smile

    Before you ask, it is my second video ever, I am absolutely not into TV, cinema, internet, etc., the only thing is my friends and myself took a lot of time to have the best possible result : we have beeen working all in all for three months to make this 3'30 clip.

    You can watch it at following URL which is the english version of DV (Declic Video), the best French speaking website for video amateurs. Their tutorials and technical tips were invaluable to me, and I would like again to thank them here to be kind enough to link LUDIE GIRL (scroll down till you see the video player to click to start it and pump up the volume !)

     http://declic-video-fx.com/language/en-US/Pinnacle-Studio.aspx

    My English is not perfect, but I would be pleased and honored to reply to your questions and comments. Live long and prosper Cool
     

  •  06-10-2008, 8:11 194051 in reply to 193980

    Re: Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

    Well done.  It looked like you had heaps of fun making the video clip.

     Keep up the good work.

  •  06-10-2008, 23:10 194486 in reply to 194051

    Re: Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

    Oh yes we had, thanks very much :-)
  •  09-24-2008, 10:32 237200 in reply to 194486

    Re: Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

    Wow! I am impressed with your clip! It's a great job! Good done!

    What camcorder and what formats did you use to film the footage? Did you use Studio 11 or 12?

    Can you please share with me some of techniques, I would like to try myself in creating similar clips.  In fact, I don't get how you made your video in sync with the audio track when swtching to overlay track switching different points of view and or backgrounds.  And I see you used some animated graphics, how did you make them?

    Thanks,

    Oleg

  •  09-24-2008, 23:46 237415 in reply to 237200

    Re: Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

    Oleg:

    Wow! I am impressed with your clip! It's a great job! Good done!

    What camcorder and what formats did you use to film the footage? Did you use Studio 11 or 12?

    Can you please share with me some of techniques, I would like to try myself in creating similar clips.  In fact, I don't get how you made your video in sync with the audio track when swtching to overlay track switching different points of view and or backgrounds.  And I see you used some animated graphics, how did you make them?

    Thanks,

    Oleg

    Thank you very much for your kind words, Oleg Smile

    I recently bought a mid-level camcorder, a mini DV -which is still the best format for "hard editing" !- Panasonic  NV-GS 330, and the filmed sequences were all done in the classical 4:3 format (in PAL of course). I used Studio 11 Ultimate, Studio 12 was not yet out.

     The audio track was made separately in the private studio of a friend who is a sound ingeneer. I bought on the Internet the karaoké version of "Barbie Girl" and then we did the sound mixing in his studio (Ludie is obviously sung by a "real" women, in fact she is my neighboor from the 5th floor and is an artist in real life). Once we had the soundtrack of the clip, we recorded it on a CD and did all the footage shooting by running the CD and Ludie and "Ken" were singing with the CD as musical background to maximise the synchronisation effect, so that at the screen you think they are singing -which they were, just it's not their voice, it'as an artisanal form of playback-.

     I found the model of the starship cockpit model "how to make" on amateur video sites, one french (with an english translation btw) very useful and informative site is Déclic Vidéo which helped me a lot for using Studio : editing, using HFX, adding special effects and so on.  Of course, I used the "green screen" incrustation method for putting Ludie in the starship cockpit :-)

     Then I applied different special effects, with several optional ones (the ones you have to buy by unlocking the Pinnacle symbol, e.g. the lightning) and also a lot of VitaScene and Adorage.

    The trick for complex sequences, like the statue with the talking mouth, is to do several renderings. You basically create dozens of projects which act as the different layers of the same complex sequence including several special effects or transitions. You render in .avi, then use the rendered clip as new material to apply a new effect and so on. This is because Studio allows only TWO video trails (? not sure of the correct word in English) whereas some other products allow several. By the way, it is a strong demand of the french community of Sudio users to enlarge the number of video trails in future versions of Studio, there was a whole thread on that topic in the french forums as Pinnacle asked for our suggestions before the elaboration of Studio 12.

     In fact, everything was pretty simple once I understood how Studio was working, as I was a quasi-noob as my friends and my started the project. It just took me time, three months, to do everything from the first tests of the soundtrack till the final tweakings with the last transitions, the finale etc. I learned a lot about editing videos and computer science LOL Geeked And I can tell you my PC wasn't much delighted about the heavy wiork, I still use an Athlon 64 processor, who was obviously running after Studio, hehe...

     The animated objects (if you mean the Star Trek animations as pictures on the wall in the Ken sequences) were made by doing a first short clip with the Enterprise, the second one with a picture of Mr. Spock (I used an optional plug in buyable in Studio which name I forgot who does fine tuning animation of static images for the second one), then with Adorage I made the frame -you have dozens of possible frames as decoration in Adorage-, and finally I applied a HFX effect to give the impression of a slight perspective, as if the picture would follow the slight inclination/angle from the irregular wall (the footage of Ken was shot in the cave of the artist's workshop from my neighboor).

     Voilà, that's all, nothing spectacular or secret, and I am still struggling to use HFX which I don't understand very well. Editing HFX filters stays the most complicated thing in Studio in my opinion and demands an almost professional level of understanding, which all the rest doesn"t, for the rest,  Studio is pretty intuittive and user-friendly imo.

     I hope I answered your questions !

     Regards,

     


  •  09-25-2008, 6:20 237501 in reply to 237415

    Re: Music video clip LUDIE GIRL parody of BARBIE GIRL

    Thank you so much!  My best wishes to you in your new projects ! 

    Oleg

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