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I have both You Tube and Live Video accounts. The visuals are usually better on You Tube, but the sound is better at Live Video.
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This is my tribute to the fire spinners. All the clips were shot at night, and in color reversal all the black became white, and the orange fire became blue. I like the way the figures are revealed in blue flashes. All I used were the clips of the spinners, their strings of colored lights, their glowing poi ball, and a bit of my eye. Some clips are sped up or slowed down, often drastically so.
I had a very difficult time rendering this, trying to keep the whites balanced and avoid pink screens. Trying to co-ordinate everything to the music was also very tedious. This is as far as I can go with my current crappycam and editor.
The music is an old synth backing track I used to improvise over. It goes in circles just like the fire wands. Let the visuals be the melody.
Many thanks to Neidra and Burke of Burning Love Fire Performance.
All my music is BMI, please don't extract the audio or distrbute it without the video.
Deja Vu
I have found the color and effects section of my editor (Ulead Studio 8) so I made this 'experimental' video. All of the clips are of flowers in my yard, including the kaleidescope effects. I realize it's just a glorified plenoptic for the music, but hey, I have to start somewhere! When I get a REAL editing software, I'll do more. I couldn't get inset shapes other than rectangles, but I tried to fade them in and out.
The music is "Deja Vu" for flute and piano, which I wrote and recorded in 1977. I am playing piano, Janet Becker is the flutist. Please do not distribute the soundtrack seperately from the video. All my music is liscensed through BMI.
This took a lot longer to make than I thought it would. Hopefully I can get more and better effects, and make music videos of recordings I have while I'm waiting for the chance to practice again. Then I can upload music regularly and in earnest!