Guide: Making Amiga still image music videos
3A very quick (and silent) look into one simple Amiga still image music video creation case. Make sure to read more below.
UPDATE April 1st, 2013: My new guide featuring Dolby Headphone effect application:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr7hPclH1cw&hd=1
Notes:
- This video demonstrates a near simplest case (the most simplest being no audio editing phase at all).
- Not much audio editing here. I only remove opening silence (all 100 milliseconds of it lol) and create my usual 15 second fade-out. It should be noted that in this case the audio does not have stereo join nor Dolby Headphone effects in it. Stereo join effect would be created by DeliPlayer if set so, and Dolby Headphone effect would be added with foobar2000 after all audio editing has been done.
- Still image was pre-existing, so i didn't have to make it in this video. My Amiga game still images are always 900 x 720. Why 900 x 720 you ask? I use the same images as embedded cover art images and 900 x 720 works better versus 1280 x 720.
- Vegas avi output specs in this case: 1280 x 720 (900 x 720 pillarboxed to be 1280 pixels wide) @ 1 fps using AVC compressed video (via x264vfw) and lossless pcm audio. I'm using Komisar x264vfw builds: http://komisar.gin.by/index.html
- I've been keeping audio in lossless pcm format all the way to YouTube since March 28, 2012, when i noticed YouTube having some problems with lossless FLAC tracks.
- The final step with mkvmerge GUI is optional. It's only needed if you insist on making Matroska (.mkv) videos.
The file manager you get to see briefly near the end is Directory Opus by the way. One of the best purchases i've ever made when it comes to PC software. It so happens that it has roots in Amiga.
My desktop is not usually solid black. Normally i'm using "16-bit memories" by Toni Bratincevic:
http://www.interstation3d.com
(check the link in the news post of September 28th, 2010)