12-15-2018, 01:04 PM | #1 |
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Some help with this video...?
Hi all you video gurus.
I've put this video together in Reaper for my new Steel Guitar instrument in Kontakt, and I'd like some feed back from you folks who really know what Reaper can do with video. I'd appreciate any suggestions on how I could make it more interesting, and professional. For example, can I fly Kontakt in instead pof dragging it in like I did. Or mabe have it fade in over Reaper's GUI, then fade out while I fade in the midi editor. Any suggestion would be much appreciated. https://youtu.be/YHNZIsMWXE0 Incidentally, this will be used as a demo for my new steel guitar. |
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use some automation to zoom in on where you want people to look. I like 0.5 sec transitions with S-curves for zoom and pan.
You can also include some of the performance on the MIDI controller from a couple angles/distances.
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the Reaper GUI while the song is playing and make it the full length of the video to the end of the music. Then create a separate video of Kontakt which is the exact same size of Kontakt, and fade that into the Reaper GUI video? I need to think about how I could use Zoom, it has some real possibilities. |
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Hi Tod,
if you would like to fly in something like a Kontakt window you would have to make a composite of several videos. That's not as easy as it sounds. But like Jon mentioned, you could instead zoom in and out to parts of your screen if the resolution allows it. A composite only would make sense if your final video would be more of a documentation. With titles, descriptions, comments and videos of different areas and images to show. But theoretically you could at least make some tests to start learning something about it. You could record the video twice or three times. Once only the Kontakt window, once only the Mixer and once the whole Reaper arrange view. Every time with the same song from start to end. You then can line them up on separate tracks in a new video project. And this time the video processor could help you to let the Kontakt window fly or zoom in. Same with the mixer. The way to do it would be crop, pan and zoom from the standard preset. |
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be faded in anywhere, at any time, over the main video? The main video is full screen (1920 x 1040). That would be the best scenario if it can be done. I don't have Reaper in front of me now, but I do recollect some x/y coordinates that might be used to place it. I've worked a lot with opacity so I pretty much know how to use that. However, I've not actually used zoom, although I did play around with it yesterday just to see how it works and there might be some good use for that. |
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**I'm afraid to blab too much because I use Davinci Resolve for about 80% of my video stuff now which means I could be conflating features between the two and/or unaware of things that have changed in Reaper's video handling since I last used it for something like this. I'm sure the result you want is possible but I could be missing some details without trying it myself. That said, I think the simplest way is to leave the position static, crop out what's around it if needed, then just fade it in/out. Also, if all videos contain the same audio, it should be easy to time-align them via waveform. Currently, I use 4 or more cameras + audio recorder at band practice and have no issue aligning all of them visually via waveforms in each video (unless I get in a hurry and nudge one in post by mistake).
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Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 for several years and I've got Vegas Pro 14.0, but I hate fiddling with it. I've gotten to really like Reaper for what I do, which isn't all that sophisticated. I think I'm just going to combine the 3 videos for now, That will be better then what I've got, and I think be a good representation for the demo. Heh heh, What you're doing with all the cameras is beyond me... |
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Ah, sorry, I wasn't suggesting Davinci for what you are doing, it's totally possible in Reaper. That was just an aside about syncing cameras with waveforms.
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Okay, I got it pretty well together, however, I was going to zoom in on a section and it gets rather distorted, even
at a value of +1. Is this the way it is? I don't think I'll be able to use it. Quote:
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If you need to zoom larger than the original it will get pixelated or have artifacts. Now, I reduce and sometimes avoid this problem when recording camera video (vs desktop capture) by recording in a resolution much larger than what I'm going to actually use (record 4k, render 1080p) - but when screen capturing your desktop, I don't think that's possible unless there is a way to make the kontakt instance larger when you record it, then zoom to that size or less - assuming I'm understanding since I haven't used Reaper for video in the last month or so, meaning there could be something Reaper related I'm unaware of.
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Aside from the great tips, I wanted to point out that this is really a great instrument. Seems very playable!
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zoom into the midi editor itself, it's not so bad. I think I'm getting close, I'll post it when I get it completely done. |
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This is a video of a more up tempo song. https://youtu.be/j_Ypn79rt_s |
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Okay, this is what I came up with in Reaper for the video.
You can see when you zoom in to Kontakt just slightly, the text starts to pix-elate, as Karbo put it. It's not quite so bad, or noticable, zooming in on the Midi Editor itself. I don't know, do you think it's kind of cheezy, did I get carried away? https://youtu.be/JEeMZuaC54I
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I probably made a bad word choice to say pixelated, probably interpolation/aliasing instead, either way, it degrades the way it looks. I don't think it is terrible, the main issue I see is making it harder to read the text in Kontakt.
Enlarging like this and potential artifacts sort of comes with the territory. Have you tried zooming by an evenly divisible amount? For example going from 100% to 125%. That might make it a tiny bit better.
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The zoom goes from 0 to 10 and I've got it at .60 so I guess that would be 6.0%. It's so little, I might be better off not zooming it. Did the zooming in the midi editor look okay, I was just trying to make it a little more interesting. I was also trying to show the velocities, but I don't think anyone will notice that. Towards the end I zoomed in close to the vibrato CC controllers, but it's doubtful anyone will correlate that either. |
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