keefWith many of our Fedi musicians developing a new interest in making videos, thanks to the awesome #TIBtv, I wonder if folks would like to share the tools and methods they're using for creating music videos?
Let's make a thread.
Unknown Pseudoartist@keefmarshall oh, I seen about that intiative and I loved the idea, but I hesitated to get involved because I'm unsure if what I do with music videos could be of interest there, since my hunch is that its focus is more about videos of performances and more "normal" stuff, and what I do is just too weird lol. Plus my ears are not trained enough to understand spoken english, let alone speak it properly, so I'd be lost in these streams 😅
But hey, so glad to see all is going fine with that! :)
@unknownpseudoartist it definitely isn't all about videos of performances, although there are some of those. It's also about weird animations, demoscene and avant-garde constructions.. it's a good mix!
Check it out: https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/
The Indie Beat Television
A consent driven 24/7 stream of indie music videos and animation from artists across the Fediverse. See Now Playing info at https://mastodon.social/@tibtvnowplayingbot - Fediwall at https://shorturl.at/CrWD3 - Submit your videos at https://theindiebeat.fm/the-indie-beat-tv/ - CAUTION: Many videos have flashing lights!
@keefmarshall okay, so I'm going to submit 2 of my original videos then (not the VGM stuff because obvious reasons). These won't be everyone's cup of tea but maybe will give some fresh variety.
I didn't know you could add mp3 tags to video files, so reading the terms/requirements was also useful haha. Usually I just render the videos with KDEnlive and upload as is.
@keefmarshall done! also a perfect excuse to take an older short low-effort shitpost and upload to Peertube now haha.
Anne Delong@unknownpseudoartist @keefmarshall
I like OpenShot. Here's a video I made with it. It's amateur work but shows some of the fun things you can do with it:
Snowbound - by Anne Delong
@Anne_Delong @keefmarshall looks (and sounds) cool! The instrument performers are cropped with chroma over the videos with the dancers circle and other people, right? That reminds me to what a friend violinist used to make in her earlier videos (in later stuff she went to a more standard music video concept), where basically she added all the cropped takes together in a same scene like an army of clones haha.
@unknownpseudoartist @keefmarshall
Yes, chroma key was used to combine the elements. This is the result of me receiving a green screen as a Christmas present.
I also made quite a bit of use of the ability to stretch, shrink and crop individual video clips, and adjust brightness and contrast to make two elements blend together. I needed a better lighting setup to prevent chroma key glitches, but it was just for fun, so I didn't invest in that.
@Anne_Delong @keefmarshall anyways, thanks for the recomendation! Right now I'm used to do the videos with KDEnlive, but I might eventually check alternatives. Maybe others more oriented to 2D animation than video editing, since the video concept I do for VGM remixes turned too complex and not that suitable for that kind of editor (too many layers and animations), plus so far there's a very simple feature I didn't see in any of them: to transform plain (no interpolation, which ruins pixelart).