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Maurizio Miceli - Way Out - Transitions EP [L&C 15]

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Hi George

good stuff

all done in processing?

hq is not availble I am afraid, but you can embed vimeo instead.
Nope. Very little Processing. The opening clip is a wandering about the screen video of my 3D spiky ball Processing sketch (animated kaleidoscope effect done in post with FFrend), and there may be some flashes of Processing stuff in the kaleidoscoped clip at the end (footage from the gig at Sequence in London).

I used some software called REAPER to create a MIDI sequence synched (by hand) to the original audio file; the video is a realtime recording of the audio playing from Reaper (which is also sending out MIDI data) and video from Neon v2 (which has various things controlled by the MIDI signals and has some realtime audio reactivity). The recording is via S-Video to my Mini-DV camcorder, which I re-imported via Firewire for treatment in post (crop, noise reduction, colour adjustment, sharpening, etc), producing a 13.5GB uncompressed video (with uncompressed audio) that I finally added titles to in Windows Movie Maker (high tech!) and rendered out. Lots of hassles (like searching for sequencing software then having to learn how to use it, video conversions that destroyed the audio, etc), but worked out well in the end.

-spxl
stuff you get through firewire is DV compressed (5:1) 8)
audio is always uncompressed there but it may be tricky to set up levels you feed to the camera. Once you've got that, it's the only way to go for now.

I always believed that hand-programmed midi beats any kind of audio-reactivness few times over.

good stuff. well done.
The clip has been "officially" released on the deepindub netlabel site. If I'd had it finished a day or two earlier I'd have had the "number 1" VJ video release... Too slow!

http://www.deepindub.org/maurizio-miceli-way-out-vj-video-by-subpixel-didvj002

I have my own staff page there, and as there's only one other VJ listed at the moment (and one video maker), it makes me look more prominent than fantastic music creators in the rather longer list on the left. In all, I think it was a very worthwhile project.

-spxl