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[b]So... how's everyone getting on with this month's challenge?[/b] Anybody started yet? Who's in and who's out? (conscious that Douglas finished this back in July - swot! - and that Bilbo, Discreet and possibly Lurks are skipping this one).
I'm pretty much knee deep in mine without a paddle. Something like that. I've set out to produce a mini-remix of each of the tracks I've produced thus far and then mix them together as seamlessly as possible, so they make some kind of sense as a whole. I thought this was going to be a time-saver as I'm stupidly busy this month, but I'm now realising that I've created a rod for my own back and would have been much better off just writing something from scratch, as per usual. Oh well. Live and learn.
I'm producing the audio in Reason using markers to delineate each section of the video. I'll then comp it together with the footage in iMovie once I'm finished (have tested this and it works fine).
One of the biggest difficulties has been the timing of each section of the video - they're not consistently the same length (thanks Charic! ), which has made smoothing out the transitions quite fiddly. If it helps anyone, I have a written list of the start/end time and duration of each section [i](yes, I am an anorak)[/i], which I found useful given that my DAW doesn't have a built-in video player. I'll post the list of timings up here if anyone's interested. I also found it helpful to sketch out the initial structure at 128bpm, which allows a neat 30 seconds per clip, and then make adjustments from there.
Other than that - and my own stupid idea of creating a 'mega mix' of songs that aren't designed to be mixed together - it's all proving quite straightforward, really! No, really. If you're in two minds then give it a go. It's much less of a faff than you might think...
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They should actually be all the same length but I used the stock windows movie maker thingy.