Here is a recent music video I made with a few other guys, all with Studio 11.  Keep watching afterwords, there is some PIP action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvu6foovL4

 

Let me know what you think!

That was SO funny... and very well done!!!  Thanks for sharing.

I was going to stop the video about 50 times, but I was strangely compelled to watch all of it.  Maybe it was the hair...

Very nice.

The first half has some of the best video quality that I've ever seen at YouTube.

Would you mind sharing the render settings and which material did you bring into studio. i.e avi, ect which formate did you finally upload?

Your editing and camera work is really good. 

There is one part that did bother me some what, and that is the second half.

Mainly the two different sizes. The viewbox on the left is much narrower than the one on the right.

I'm sure that you already know that, but just wanted to say as a viewer it distracted me. Also the quality or sharpness during this part seemed lower.

Perhaps, if you had used the 2d editor fx instead of PNP these would not have suffered as much loss in quailty.

However once again, I found your work to be very high level, thanks for the link. 

Very nice and very funny. I loved and miss the mullets!

I liked how you arranged the scenes to make it appear like the original. The band actors could to loosen up a bit though. Were they made to act against their will?

Very funny anyway it could just be a lot funnier with more charisma.

I'm so subscribed...
 

Excellent....... I've been making family music videos with still pics...... now I see what can be done with video.... looks like a lot of good PLANNING was at the head of the project.

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Joe in NJ 

Thank you very much for the comments.  I was very pleased with the quality of the film, I recently bought a Sony DCR-HC48, very cheap, and I still like the MiniDV (great quality for the price). I was blown away by the quality of video from this camera.

Captured it all as uncompressed AVI and did all the editing in Studio 11.  And when I finished, rendered it to a MPEG DVD compatible (6000kbs), also rendered it to WMV (750kbs using Vegas).  I think the WMV version is the one I uploaded to youtube.

 The ratio differences was something I though about before filming.  We knew the original video was filmed in 4:3, but I generally film everything in 16:9. I thought about filming it in 4:3, but I decided to go with 16:9.

 The actors were excited for the video, although most of them were quite tired, as I know atleast one of them did not sleep AT ALL the night before.  I guess that is life in a college town.  But I do agree, the original video has SO much energy, and that is one area we could have improved on.

5 hours of straight filming, and about 7 hours of straight editing, I was very pleased to finish it in one day (I hate when projects drag on over weeks).  Definitly did some planning to get all the filming done in 5 hours, I had to do some paperwork before hand.

We made another music video a little over a year ago, although I think you may find it less tasteful.  Its quite outrageous, and is definitly a little more popular with the college crowd.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzDICFfVIB4

that is the side-by-side comparison, the full video is on youtube as well.

Amazing.  Your picture was crisper and bigger than the original because you have better technology than they had in the 80's right there on your desktop!  Isn't that cool?  I loved the side by side comparisum! (sp?)

 I was listening to a geek show the other day and the talking head stated that "If the old Soviet Union in 1965 had just FIVE of the average computers that sit on desks at home nowadays, they'd have WON the Cold War!"

I don't know if that's true, but it does give cause to pause.

 (I'll always be freaked out that a studio and two conex containers of records I used while running an AFRTS radio station in Guam now fits on an 80mb Zune that slides into your shirt pocket.  Maybe I'm old now and just didn't get the memo.)

 cooljim

cooljim:

 (I'll always be freaked out that a studio and two conex containers of records I used while running an AFRTS radio station in Guam now fits on an 80mb Zune that slides into your shirt pocket.  Maybe I'm old now and just didn't get the memo.)

 cooljim

I know how you feel.

Guam 1970-1972

USS Proteus AS 19  

I was laughing my ass off but endured the cheesy subject matter for the sake of evaluating the editing. Then I realized in the second half that you were simply emulating the original cheesy video. OMG! Did we really watch that stuff in the 80's? LOL

I also would like to know what format you submitted this to YouTube. The quality is really great. Better than any of the stuff I've uploaded there.
 

Dude,that is fantastic!  Me and my wife loved that song and we played yours, then the original, then back to yours again.  We laughed our butts off.  Loved the wigs!  You did a really good job at mimicking the original.  Very nice work.