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2010-08-23 The Ian Lendler Poetry Illustration Contest 2010 |
2009-5-11Flip Boom Animation Contest Winners for 2 May 2009GarageBand Contest Winners for 2 May 2009 |
2009-1-13 What's the difference between closed ear and open ear headphones? |
2007-10-22 Today we had this problem occur: "GarageBand found 1 audio file(s) in 8 bit format. This format is unsupported and cannot be played back." My research into this gives the answer that the file is somehow corrupted, hence the wacky error message. The student needs to rebuild the song from scratch. The fastest way to do this during school will be to copy all the names of all the loops that were used before. Then re-building the song shouldn't take that long. To find the loop names, see below:
Also, this seems to be the standard drill for all Mac applications:
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2007-4-6 Here are the animated titles from last night's show of new stories from Grimmly Speaking®. All the music was composed by students at Santa Rita Elementary using GarageBand. I animated them using Motion. Little Red-Cap - Music by Rika and Katherine - 5th GradeClick here to watch with QuickTime (2.1 MB)
Snow White - Music by David - 3rd GradeClick here to watch with QuickTime (756 KB)
Rumpelstiltskin - Music by Yonatan - 6th GradeClick here to watch with QuickTime (1.9 MB)
Rapunzel - Music by Ellie and Amanda - 5th GradeClick here to watch with QuickTime (1.1 MB)
The Louse and The Flea - Music by Samantha - 4th GradeClick here to watch with QuickTime (648 KB)
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2007-3-7 Oh WOW! Look and listen to the first music scoring of our LiveType Animation Exercise for The Pretty Pretty Princess by a student at Santa Rita Elementary in Los Altos, CA :
Stephen nailed it for matching some music to the movement of the type, which is what the instructions were all about. Now, I did clean it up a little bit (a very very little bit - this is mostly his work) for some dead space, timing and equalizing the volume of the mix - BUT - this was Stephen's first try. He didn't have a chance to polish it and do any fine tune editing. (And I know he's perfectly capable of doing it given the right tools.) We'll explore how much more can be edited and fine tuned in GarageBand and iMovie as we move along in this and other exercises that I and the students create for amusement. Oh, and I love the lounge music ending. If for some reason the Flash animation is not appearing above: Click here for the iPod m4v version. (Right Click or Control Click to download it to your desktop. If it shows up with a .m4v.html extension, get rid of the - .html - and then drop it into iTunes.) Click here for the Windows Media version. |
2007-3-6 The question was: How do I create a color clip to put titles over in iMovie HD? To create a blank color background clip to use in iMovie you first need to create a blank black background clip:
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2007-2-28 Students at Egan Junior High in Los Altos, CA added some comments to a LiveType animation of the opening lines of The Pretty Pretty Princess. (It's a bit silly, but what the hey.)
This animation was created using LiveType and Final Cut Pro (FCP). Each separate LiveType clip was placed in the desired order in the FCP timeline. We then used the FCP voice over tool (Tools - Voice Over) to record our voices using the built-in mic on my MacBook Pro. |
2007-1-30 Go To Bed, Sweet Muse - an Elizabethan Love Song by Robert Jones (1608) This song was created using GarageBand, Peak Pro, Final Cut Pro and iTunes. (As of 2007-4-10, I changed the vocals to a single line instead of a chorus.) Orchestration in GarageBand using a Symphony Orchestra JamPack with the following instruments:
I sang eight separate vocal tracks and mixed them down into two choral groups. I then *shared* each choral group and the mixdown of the ensemble as three separate songs to iTunes. From there I pulled them out as AIFF files and put them into a media folder on my desktop. Peak Pro was used clean up the choral groups, set the panning for both files, and also normalize both files to 0 dB. Both were then given the acoustics of the Bethany Church of Christ in Montpelier, VT compliments of Peak's ImpulseVerb. The voices were intentionally set further back then the previous two songs because this song is essentially a slap on the hand - so my intention is to make it feel like your conscious is singing/nagging. It is a bit harsh and the aural feeling is sharper because the ensemble was not given the same acoustical softening as the voices so both groups grate slightly on each other. Final Cut Pro was used for the mastering of final audio levels between the voices and the ensemble. I re-imported the result into iTunes which then converted it into an mp3 file. |
2007-1-19 Sweet Kate - an Elizabethan Love Song by Robert Jones (1609) This song was created using GarageBand, Peak Pro, Final Cut Pro and iTunes. (On 2007-4-10, I changed the song to a single vocal, instead of a chorus.) Orchestration in GarageBand using a Symphony Orchestra JamPack with the following instruments:
I sang the vocal track and mixed them down into one chorus. I then *shared* the chorus and the mixdown of the ensemble as two separate songs to iTunes. From there I pulled them out as AIFF files and put them into a media folder on my desktop. Peak Pro was used clean up the chorus, set the panning for both files and also normalize both files to 0 dB. Final Cut Pro was used for the mastering of final audio levels between the chorus and the ensemble. This was then exported as an AIFF back to Peak Pro and was then given the acoustics of the City Hall of Gloucester, MA compliments of Peak's ImpulseVerb. I re-imported the result into iTunes which then converted it into an mp3 file. |
2007-1-15 Sweet Nymph Come To Thy Lover - an Elizabethan Love Song by Thomas Morley (1593)This song was created using GarageBand, Peak Pro, Final Cut Pro and iTunes. Orchestration in GarageBand using a Symphony Orchestra JamPack with the following instruments:
I sang eight separate tracks, mixing down four tracks into one chorus and then the other four into another chorus. I then *shared* each chorus and the mixdown of the ensemble as three separate songs to iTunes. From there I pulled them out as AIFF files and put them into a media folder on my desktop. Peak Pro was used clean up the vocal recordings, set panning for all three files and also normalize all files to 0 dB. Each file was also given the acoustics of the Bethany Church of Christ in Montpelier, VT compliments of Peak's ImpulseVerb. Final Cut Pro was used for the mastering of final audio levels between the 2 choruses and the ensemble. This was then exported as an AIFF and re-imported into iTunes which then converted it into an mp3 file. |
2007-1-7 The question sent to me: I was wondering how you do a green screen with moving objects because when I was doing a chroma key, it worked ok, but it was fuzzy around and inside the object. The answer I gave: Essentially you're eliminating one color with the chroma-key. If that color exists inside the image you're saving this will happen. Video Filters - Key - Color Smoothing - 4:1:1 then add Video Filters - Key - Spill Suppressor - Green then add Video Filters - Key - Chroma Keyer now go to Filters in your Viewer turn off Spill Suppressor (you'll add this last) and Color Smoothing (you'll toggle this later to see if you need it) now open your Chroma Keyer and tweak away (use only one or two clicks for Softening and don't use Enhance) now go back to Filters in your Viewer toggle Color Smoothing and see if it looks better or worse turn on Spill Suppressor (it allows you to dial in the opposite color to the one you're keying out and helps get rid of any greenish or bluish edge) and see if that helps |
2006-10-27 Recording voice in GarageBand: attach a microphone to your computer (line-in port or use a USB interface like the Griffin iMic) When in doubt go to GarageBand Help and read the documentation on Recording with Real Instruments. |