Vegas Music Video

joelvid wrote on 9/15/2004, 7:50 AM
If anyone is interested, please view a music video edited in Vegas 5. It's my first music video, so be nice! Stream or download from my yahoo briefcase: The band is American Mars from Detroit,MIchigan. The video will be included on an enhanced CD with four audio tracks as a demo to record companies.

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/joel_boyea

Thanks for any advise or comments.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 9/15/2004, 8:44 AM
Excellent sound. Good video. Nice job.
ChrisC wrote on 9/15/2004, 10:14 AM
Very nice! I loved the mood lighting and the dips to black. Reminiscent of early R.E.M. and some of the MTV videos back when they really played videos. Excellent work. I am inspired.
ChrisC wrote on 9/15/2004, 11:20 AM
A few more comments, if I may. Questions, really. You obviously paid a lot of attention to detail on the shoot. Did you script/storyboard the shots? Is the look of the video something you did in post or did you go for the film style when shooting? What camera did you use, did you shoot 24P and 16:9, and did you use a film look within Vegas? Sorry for the questions, but it seems a lot of people just shoot video and then expect Vegas (or any other NLE) to magically make it look like film instead of shooting it as film to start with. As I said before, excellent work. Looking forward to seeing more.
mjroddy wrote on 9/15/2004, 2:04 PM
Something is the pipes is VERY slow. Your video has been dnlding for about 45 min on my T1 line and still says that it has an hour and 45 to go.
Looking forward to it, though.
joelvid wrote on 9/15/2004, 7:08 PM
sometimes yahoo briefcase is slow and messed up. Try it later. Hope it works for you.
joelvid wrote on 9/15/2004, 7:37 PM
Thanks for the comments. I went into the shoot with some storyboards, then didn't reallyfollow them!! I think it is important to plan, or do a treatment for the the video shoot even if you know it's not going to work out for whatever reason!. Luckily everyone in the band had great ideas and we just shot them all. We shot from 5pm to 9pm over two days, so about 8 hrs total. A couple of techniques on the look of the video: 1. I tried to use as slow a "shutter" as possible on my Sony pd 150 camera. I shot in 4:3 29.97 properties in Vegas. I then just used the 16:9 Pan/Crop in Vegas. I rendered the whole timeline to a 24p MPEG. You're right about about shooting video with
photographic fundamentals. I hope the video helps the band get a record deal!!