new Video... When I Rule The World

I produced the music for this video... featuring Kristan Mikala, myself and David Adkins on Lead Guitar...
The song was written by Brenda Register...
 
"When I Rule The World"
http://vimeo.com/26782291

Did you want a comment about the video or the audio or both?

Here is the info on the page, and whether people can download it or not I guess is there for not me to decide.

About this video
MP4
00:04:15

    1280x720, 122.27MB
    Uploaded Fri July 22, 2011
    Please join or log in to download

It the size of the video is correct, then it is a very big video at 1280 x 720. The standard size of a dvd movie video as far as I can see (and whether that depends on the video player or not I do not know) seem to be 720 x 576 PAL or 720 x 480 NTSC and HD starts at your video size of 1280x720. Fine then, and I suppose I will never get there.

Do you want people to I guess log in there and download it (for free I am assuming)? I suppose that is up to you also. (people I think download videos at utube I am assuming all the time, as long as they I guess use it for their own personal use and not try to thrawt copyrights.

The video then is professional done, and so much for that and looks fine. (I am assuming then also it is HD.)

But next comes the audio codecs and I had to do a search on that and about MP4 or MPEG-4. I guess I am still not going to use that, although I suppose a lot of people will because it seems to be only a little above an MP3 codec and I think now since lately can be - lossless (no loss of quality of the audio recording). But still not much better than a MP3 mixdown. So it seems to fit what more portable players will accept (since they can download an upgrade to handle that type of audio codec now) - (have to look up the wikipedia page again for all of that) - oh, I forget the name - those portable players - iPads or something like that. I suppose that is fine then for a lot of people can just download and be off with it on their own personal player I suppose.

Well, even at utube they state - well, load up a video as a mpeg-4 (or I guess also a MP4) like your video. I just disagree with that.
I found out that clunky Windows still with their own type of file, (which also plays at utube) a *.wmv file, actually may still have better audio codecs. With Media player 10 (windows) it can also handle 48kHz sample rate at 16-bit but the codecs I can use (I guess with my video program) is still like an MP3 file but at sample rate of 48kHz and 16-bit (not 24-bit.) That's fine and they do sound close with making it with the codecs like at 256-bit or perhaps even 320bit like a MP3 file but the sample rate is more. Well, I am still using, because there still is no lossless with that 48kHz sample rate at 256 or 320 bit, the old 44.1kHz and 16-bit (like a CD still) because it is lossless. But that can not happen with a MP4 or MPEG-4 file because even if it is lossless, it still is just above a *.mp3 file. And until I find out different or realize it myself, the old 44.1kHz and 16bit lossless seems at least to me right now, that it should be better for the audio, but not so easy to just download and put on a portable player or whatever player young adults want to use. They would have to do that changing the format theirselves for their portable device.

Otherwise, the video and music comes out fine and well enough, and I suppose if I was a member there I could download it also.

Is that all free then?? (I don't have to answer that.)

I hope what I wrote somehow makes some sense, but they seem to make the video part better and only make the audio part so good, and I like the audio portion of the video to be as good as what the video can be with the sound also. It does not seem to be that way though but will be good enough like better than a *.mp3 file but to me seemingly not as good as a lossless 44.1kHz - 16 bit transfer of the audio (despite the video perhaps not being as good.)
(I think movies start out with much better equipment though and transfer down to what is used on a computer - a regular DVD - not a blue-ray DVD, as I do not know about those, so they sound good enough, but still not going to sound as good as a theater one may go to on the big screen.
Well, that is more than enough babbling about codecs, audio or video.
That's all the further I understand it as of yet. I am not all that much into all that stuff either so it is more of a hobby only.

Otherwise on your video it looks to have been done professionally and the audio comes out good also.
(so perhaps the other way I am being more fussy which is not needed, but then............it always seem to lack something until you read the fine print on what you really can do without really way more expensive equipment only perhaps a movie studio or lot would have or a major recording studio.)

(that ought to cover at least a year of posting on this forum.)

Yeah... very professional work there. Great job on the music for the video.

Hey I loved the song and video and mostly her wonderful voice !

Thanks for posting ! Radio

Thanks all... I thought the Video was kind of lame, but I liked the song, and really liked working with Kristan...

Great tune, and a superb job on the audio production, Frank.  Very strong piece there- sounds like a hit to me.

Great production, Frank.  Wow!

What a wonderful job Frank! Thanks for posting this!

Thaks Bill,,, It's really good to hear from you...

Ed, thanks buddy...

'tis a very pretty video, well filmed, and I like the song and her vocals...

now maybe this is just me, but.. it seems like the timing.. Video to Audio.. is a slight off in parts.. perhaps a little ahead or behind her lip movements.

I tend to notice this having worked with this myself, and knowing how DAMN precise it has to be.

and oh... to have your camera(s).

Great job !

I have said many times here that I  believe that I am blessed with the ability to watch and listen to something like this and not be moved to analyze it too much.  The music goes perfectly with the video, the vocals and the music just locked me in and I saw no problems with any of it. I enjoyed it totally, thinking "I wish I could do that"! The Gal is so good and you all should know by now that I am partial to female singers.  Since I don't know about video production I can only go by my enjoyment factor.  This peaked the meter.  I had to listen and watch in chunks because I am in a very nice hotel in Annapolis, Maryland.  I have found that the nicer the hotel, the slower the internet!  SO....Frank, this is an 11 on a scale of 1-10.  TOTALLY PROFESSIONALLY DONE.  This is the most excellent mix.  Notnat rules!!!

Ya, the video stops and stutters for me especially in the beginning. I suppose I should comment that the video has a few good sections and then it also has bad sections where it flickers. I suppose I could assume a reason for that from the original video being too big or the filming of it somehow, or me not having equipment that can keep up with it. I think it may have something to do with the former though, although my computer and like is getting older by the minute also.

I think the flickering when I view it distracts from the video then, as if the speed of the filming was too slow to begin with, I guess. The colors come out good, but only so good. At least her eyes are not red.

(I don't make a video that good in the first place, so.............I have commented enough on this video already though)!

Song
Audio Production

No doubt - I loved the music...

It all sounds perfectly professional. Honestly, I have to say that that's the problem. It's so perfectly professional that it's in danger of being audio wall paper in a way. This, to me, seems to be one of the great dangers of modern digital technology. It's possible to make things effectively flawless so people do, but it was always the flaws and idiosyncracies that made music interesting. Now we have producers and engineers competing to take people's raw material and give them back something that's semi-inhuman.

None of which is to say it's not good. It obviously is. I just have to be honest and say that I think it's too good in the wrong ways. Is that a backhanded compliment or a forehanded insult? I can't tell. Anyhoo, I don't mean to mean, just say what I feel.