layered video - how u do that?

[killicks]

There are more and more great layered singing videos on youtube like this


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=I8K54UYjIR4&feature=channel_page

Im guessing it is done with photobooth type stuff dropped into a final cut type editor.

I would really like somone (who knows) to shed some light on this for me

Ta

 

[r.j.s]

Where? I didn't see any 'layered video' in your link.

I saw a title overlayed onto the video, but no layers.

 

[spinnerlys]

If you have more than one video playing on the monitor/display/whatever, and it was created using an editing software, you simply add additional video tracks to your timeline.
If the video in the video is smaller than the monitor/display/where-ever it's being played on, it typically involves a picture-in-picture effect (or sometimes a resize effect). You apply the effect to the video clip and set its parameters to your liking (size, position, rotation).


PS:

I've just seen the video you linked to, and I haven't seen any layers either.

Do you mean the "jumps" from one "image" to another (she drumming with the wood spoons, and then we see her singing into the camera, and the she is playing a ukulele/dwarf guitar)?

Those are called cuts, every good film has those (exceptions are there of course, Russian Ark, or Life Is Too Short to Dance with Ugly Women).

You can achieve this by putting clip after clip in a timeline, technically speaking. Dramaturgically you should have a script/storyboard first, so that you know what you want/have to shoot to achieve the desired effect.

 

[killicks]

Did I use the wrong term

The question is how does she record 4 or 5 clips and syncronise them into a vid so she is doing her own harmonies

 

[r.j.s]

She just records the clips and then edits the cuts to match what is happening ...

iMovie can do all of this ...

 

[killicks]

u can see that in some she is listening to the original track on an earpiece

 

[Benjamindaines]

It's just very simple editing, just cuts between different takes timed to a single music track. You can do that in iMovie.

 

[killicks]

so i didnt need to buy fce after all

 

[Benjamindaines]

so i didnt need to buy fce after all

Hopefully the shrink wrap is still on it and you can take it back. If not, FCE is a much more powerful app than iMovie (although more complicated to use) and you could use it as an excuse to learn more and make more advanced videos.

 

[killicks]

mmm I had this dream that it would be a video version of garageband where I could lay down numerous live tracks keeping all audio but switching between vidoes

 

[Courtaj]

Keep FCE if you want to do this in one package, or use iMovie in conjunction with Garageband if you like flip-flopping between different parts of iLife - one for pictures, one for sound. As far as I'm aware, there's no multi-track audio editing in iMovie '08 - Garageband is there for that. FCE supports multitracking for video and audio.

Andrew.

 

[Benjamindaines]

mmm I had this dream that it would be a video version of garageband where I could lay down numerous live tracks keeping all audio but switching between vidoes

It's called a Mulitclip and is a part of FCP (maybe part of FCE, but I only use Pro so I don't know). Basically you take your video tracks, sync them up, add the mulitclip clip to your time line with your audio track, then as your tracks are playing in real time you can switch the "cameras."

EDIT: Muliticlip is not in FCE, but it still would not be hard to achieve the same look with multiple video tracks and the blade too.

 

[killicks]

Thanks everyone

Ill try this out and let you know how it goes

Plan a is to create a number of videos via photobooth abd see if I can combine them in FCE