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Yeah, too late for any more drum shots. My wife (the writer/singer) and I actually are gonna try and get our 6yo daughter to agree to "paint" the first cartoon on a wall, and have it come to life, like indietalk suggested. Good catch on the clapping - it's a little awkward to line up but I'll...

Gotcha - Thanks Nate! :-) Yeah most were actually with my cheapo green screen, but actually, the scene removal mask in FCP works better than the green screen mask, maybe because of my small room setup and poor lighting.

Oooh that wold be super cool!

Ugh, I know 🤦‍♂️ I didn't notice it till after I'd imported all those shots. I had a ND filter onl my lens, but somehow some dust got *underneath* it and parked itself on the actual lens glass itself.

Thanks guys! (Also, nice to see you both again. 🙃) I'm thinking I might try to stabilize some of the shakiest handheld shots, but it's such a pain with this motion tracker plugin; I basically have to export the clip and re-import a printed version into FCP, since there's no way in FCP to truly...

I'm just a humble musician, and know just enough about working with video to be dangerous. That being said, I created this little music video for a song my band has coming out next Friday. As the release is a week and a half away, I would love to hear constructive criticism! (That I can...

Thanks Nate! And the IG link for mlesemann: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuHeqb6tg3y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I actually didn't do the mix on this. I try not to mix my own music, as I think by the time I'm done with the production, I just have zero objectivity left haha. I have a guy in the UK who is fantastic (and gives me a great rate!) but TBH I'm not sure what his signal chain is. However, I do...

nice job! I'm not a video guy, but looks cool to me :)

Thanks for the kind words Nate. It's a song we wrote and worked hard on, glad you enjoyed it. I'll probably do a production walkthrough video at some point. Not really something for our target demographic, but fun for the nerdy producer ppl out there. I did one for our last release...

Will do mlesemann! (and thx in advance 🙏)

Nate, it looks great! We both love it. Dreamy, semi-realistic, semi-AI, and semi-anime, which all fit the song really well. We'll of course credit you wherever it's used; we will have to find you on IG/etc.) (The song drops on Friday, 6/30, so we'll keep our link private till then, but...

Sounds great, thank you so much Nick! I’ll reply to you with a link to the clips when I get home in a couple hours. They’re both pretty basic, with the subjects lit and the background very dark.

Haha sure Nate, we’re down for that, and those terms are fine - If you want to take it offline, our email is merlotembargo@gmail.com. We do have a couple shots of our singer singing through the song, and myself playing guitar through it, that match the music, if you’re interested in using...

ok, think I'm going to forestall the real animation for the time being, at least for the next video. I may hire it out for the future, and use some stock animations for now. I did chat with the person that animated the video I linked to above, and as we all suspected it's not cheap, being hand...

Thanks guys. I've used some purchased effects to do similar drawn lines to the ones in the bruno mars vid in the past, they worked pretty well, and not too bad of an effort on my part, since I didn't have to hand draw them. As far as the light goes, you're saying basically tweak it frame by...

Hi all - newbie video guy here. I'm a musician trying to make content and music vids for my band on the cheap. I'm proficient "enough" in fcpx, but I often struggle because I don't use it frequently enough to remember all the little tricks I learned the last time I used it. Have never used...

Thanks! I've got my lights hanging from the ceiling already, but I can definitely get them higher, like right up against it. I can see how that would make the geometry easier... Can try and get them closer to the sides for the same reason!

Thanks all! I'll start experimenting with some cardboard, if nothing else!