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I'm gonna publish this work on some websites.

http://www.fairworks.eu/files/vintage2paradiso.wmv

The audio part is developed, recorded, processed and mixed mainly in Scope and Steinberg environment.
I built Modular patches for fx and noises related to video events;
as for the music, VSTs sounds for the first short intro.
The central part is the intro of Alba Chiara, the song that made Vasco Rossi famous in the end of the seventies;
used instruments:
-VST sampled piano
-Vocodizer
-external gear for mic and bass guitar input, piano processing and guitar sound (Luna box, Presonus, TCS, Ashly, Edirol, Behringer, Ibanez, Line6)
-Modular patches for synth sounds and synth voice (the same signal I used as vocoder synthesis source)
-E-mu Proteus/1 XR (external) for a subtle voice background/sharpening using a strings sound;
processing gear:
-stock Scope mixer, compressors and eq
-Moveq
-Masterverb pro
-Timeworks Ambience
-VST multiband compressor
The last part is the intro of Toccata in La M from the VI sonata of P.D. Paradisi (1754) (I know I s*cks at playing)
Guitar (Ibanez, Line6, Timeworks Ambience, Vst filter), Vst bass sound with Moveq and Timeworks Ambience.

I used Google Earth, Adobe Fireworks demo (it was a pain), Photoshop, AC3D, Image ready and Sony Vegas for video.

I think it appears perfectly clear I'm just introduced in all this, so every opinion, and especially any advice for improvements in any direction is welcome.

As for the subject of the work, I'm gonna try to translate and re-render the video, then I think I'll explain the whole issue Off Topic

it looks and sounds good. i'll wait for the translation before i think i understand it though.

I've just translated the text lines and I'm about to replace them in the clip and run the render process.
I won't convert lenght measures though, cause it would require time with Fireworks... How if I add latitude/longitude coordinates?

I think I'll title the topic "when music becomes just annoying noise (they're making me work against music)"

The issue I can't find the way to solve at the moment is webspace. Though WMV9 ain't absolutely a bad codec (good quality vs 62MB only with the setting I've chosen) I've not enough free space left on Tiscali...

garyb wrote:it looks and sounds good.

Gary, thx
I'm trying to improve the central part sounds, but... no way to make that piano sounds wide, and I'm getting troubles with eq too.
Probably there's something wrong aslo with compression settings.
I'm working also at the vocoder part but I was only able to get it worse till now, maybe due to cheap mic, my bad voice and excessively different frequency ranges for analisys and synthesis signals...
I even wish to make some better take for the last part, but I'm gone... Too tired.

As for the translated version, I've just had a domain registered, so I'm about posting Off Topic.

Cochise wrote:
The issue I can't find the way to solve at the moment is webspace. Though WMV9 ain't absolutely a bad codec (good quality vs 62MB only with the setting I've chosen) I've not enough free space left on Tiscali...

Have you considered uploading your video to a video hosting site and embedding it to your page? saves space and bandwith. I like Vimeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/

next to nothing wrote:
Have you considered uploading your video to a video hosting site and embedding it to your page? saves space and bandwith. I like Vimeo.

http://www.vimeo.com/

I was considering to upload it on youtube after it will become better sounding and looking. There are other things I wish to fix, like whistles too loud on some speaker systems, text to fast... just... I reheared it too much times in a row for too long: learn the parts, sound check and processing, takes, editing, postprocessing, mixing, video editing... so it just remains without improvements for now.

vimeo... it looks cool... but which quality once the file is stored on their servers? Youtube wasn't that good the last time I uploaded there... they recompress..

Anyway, I solved that now.

Sorry this is out of thread but...

Cochise wrote:Youtube wasn't that good the last time I uploaded there... they recompress..

I just realized I made a bad work myself with that video. It looks like encoding mpeg 720x576 (..I rememeber 6000 or 8000Kb/s) ain't that good for Youtube upload...
...It was intended for DVD when I encoded.

I posted to this a few hours ago only to find out that there was a glitch in the system that saw some posts lost. So here goes again :

I like the idea of using google maps as a video backdrop, and you did a great job of syncing the visual cues to the music ( with the arrows etc ).

I'm a big fan of the E-mu Proteus having owned one in the 90's, maybe the piano from it would be better than the VSTI ?

Anyway it seemed the version of the video cut short a few seconds after the 93db rock guitar intro..wasnt sure if there was more I missed...