frames per second, beats per minute, and other measurements
Growing up I learned to use our standard cooking measurements and the trusty inches and yards. Years ago when I was in school I worked as a custom picture framer and became adept at sizing up measurements for matts and frames and could cut moulding to a 16th by sight. And then I came to the new media school. Now we measure in frames per second, beats per minute, and use rectangular pixels for video.
At present I am taking sound design. This means that I am using a variety of programs to generate, edit, and mix sound. All new to me.
(Apple) Garageband is a simple program for arranging loops and pieces of music into original pieces so you can avoid copyright issues.
Adobe Soundbooth is a relatively basic program for editing and sweetening sound by taking out noise or pops or other extraneous stuff and trimming or pasting sound where needed, adding effects, etc. You can do your editing in the green wave file or in the graphic file that displays different frequencies in different colors.
Consonants have higher frequencies where as vowels have a lower pitch. Some sounds such as the ssss sound in “books” has no voice to it so you can cut the “s” from one person’s speech and paste it into another person’s speech if you needed a plural from them instead of a single. Does that make sense?
Adobe Premiere Pro has sound editing tools as well. Music tracks are laid under the video and can be manipulated for volume or effect. I rather like doing everything in one program but sometimes it doesn’t work best that way.
For this film I needed some music I didn’t have. Now I know how to put together some background music for a couple of scenes so I will go back and do that. Thing is, it is harder to put music to video. Better to put video to music so you can cut more easily to the beat.
Adobe After Effects is not a sound editing program but does allow you to animate things to put into your video like titles or graphics or photos. Here you are talking seconds or frames. It is amazing how long it takes to create 30 seconds of finished work!!
Here is a very simple animation learning to use keyframes with the various transform functions. This is one program where you must know what your plan is BEFORE you build.
Okay, enough screen shots. I am supposed to create a presentation on yet another program (DVD Studio Pro) to teach the class how to make interactive menus. The manual for that chapter was 60 pages of tiny type with almost no pictures. Guess what I am doing tonight.
beginninghere 