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YouTube supports up to 1080p now. As long as you encode at a good bit-rate there'll be no perceptible quality loss. You can make your video private or viewable only by The Biznut until the viewing party if you want that kind of security. This usually happens due to poorly supported video/audio codecs or container formats. If you follow this advice you won't have this issue. YouTube is the 4th most popular site on the web, right behind Yahoo, so everyone's familiar with it. It is the best available option. cheers.

Simplest solution I think would be to upload entries to your own YouTube account, then The Biznut can create a playlist of all the entries for the contest/viewing party.

The really good Mac video editing software is Final Cut Pro, but iMovie works pretty well and is infinitely cheaper. iMovie 06 is a traditional non-linear editor however the newer versions (08, 09) use a very different interface which is probably not ideal for assembling a music video. Apple used to let you download 06 if you preferred to downgrade, but it doesn't seem to be available on their website any longer. You can try this but I haven't tried it myself (I already have '06) But if you have '06, you can remove an imported video's audio by either setting the clip's volume to 0% or using "Extract Audio" from the menu and delete the audio clip. cheers.

This precise concept has been proposed before and someone even worked on such a site and nothing much came of it; the idea has little feasibility for reasons already mentioned. Your best bet is to make a thread requesting project files or probe individual remixers for their project materials and take what you can get. cheers.

It's a controller, folks. The sounds you are hearing are not created by the device you are seeing. MIDI is the right choice for this device. Keyboard players don't move around much on stage, but guitarists do. MIDI cables can be much longer (15m vs 3m) than USB cables. Also for USB you need a computer, with MIDI you don't; for live performance using a hardware synth is often preferred. edit: also, USB parts are more expensive than MIDI, afaik cheers.

I hear that. I am far more interested to see original footage whether it be live action or animated but the contingent of producers capable of contributing that sort of material is shallow. So I am glad you are trying to keep things open. Well I'm lacking any equipment or time, but if I can throw something together somehow I will! cheers.

And there, sir, is where you stake your grave misunderstanding. Consider what you have presented here: a) A superficial imitation of Canon in D, which is lacking cognisance of any contrapuntal form, closing with c) an impossible fade-out, and even d) the title has no grammatical grounds! Gentlemen, this man has created nothing short of a musical abomination. And I hope you shall see fit, to return the favour. cheers. (and yes, I'm only teasing. Glad to have your contribution, Divine Wrath)

So you won't stop someone but... you may exclude them from the compo?It'll be a miracle if we can get say, 6 completed entries by March. There's no reason to exclude any kind of video; I'm interested in seeing what people from this community have to offer even if it is just music set to game footage, anime, or Obama speeches.

Your experiences are your own, but objectively I would say you're wrong. My feelings are the same as Liz's though I would articulate them differently: You could buy an Access Virus but never touch the knobs and only use the factory sounds, you could buy a mastering suite with all the bells and whistles but only use the presets. Good artists will choose tools to execute their artistic vision, bad artists will choose an artistic vision executed by their tools. In other words: blame the artists, not the tools. Blame T-Pain, don't blame AutoTune. That already happened. But in all seriousness, it would be a brilliant idea to organise an OCR album project which used nothing but company X's product and get company X to sponsor the effort. cheers.

I'm not really into sample libraries, especially orchestral ones, but for the price it's definitely a fun little collection to play with. So thanks for the heads up. cheers.

He is a good man, and thorough.

This guy has the right idea: K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple, Stupid. No entry pool, no prize money, no worrying about a dinosaur media (DVD) release. A 4-6 week deadline is enough.

Seconding this idea. err, I meant Spike Jonze. I like both Spikes, but I don't think Lee made any music videos... cheers.

I'm a big fan of music videos in general; anything by Michel Gondry or Spike Lee, I also like Chris Cunningham, David LaChapelle and others. I did a music video for a vgm tune (Jet Set Radio) tune back in 2002 for a video editing/compositing class I was taking at the time, it was a lot of fun but the end result was an embarassingly amateur effort. I've thought a lot about it. Most of the I had were either shockingly corny (e.g. Day's End) or require too much time/effort/etc. Recently however, I've been experimenting with music visualisation/animation (i.e. ), and the idea of applying these techniques to my remixes is something I'm considering.cheers.

I just so happened to check in on this, so I gave it a vote. cheers to all the participants.

The clones that have popped up are seemingly the result of novices eager to develop a site with little consideration to the community at large. You seem to be thinking beyond that sort of narcissism, so you'll probably come to the right decisions. While your doubts are well founded, it could just be a matter of execution. I remember Jeremy Morse developed a site that had tags of the various OC ReMixes. Morse's idea was very good, but the execution as a separate site was cumbersome. He eventually gave up on it but now OCR has its own tags and it's probably the most useful feature added to the site since I've been here. As for myself I took something I was passionate about, compos, and developed a site to simplify the tasks of running compos and participating in them. Instead of executing it as a separate site with its own authentication scheme I was able to integrate it into an already established site in the community. It's a niche, but it does make life easier for those who use it and there's nothing else quite like it. cheers.

The sad truth is that on the panel we had to frequently turn away remixes that were indeed good, but either a) not exceptional or not to the quality of our standards or c) not conforming to our definition of a remix So I do think the community has room for more remix sites. But what I don't think benefits the community are more OCR-style or VGMix-style sites. Offer something unique, please! Personally, I'd like to see more sites that carve out a niche for themselves, whether it be by system (like RKO), by genre or even by game series. Whatever happens to strike the passion of those so eager to create a remix site. My 0.0134366€.

Inspired by this project, I went ahead and played through the full-version of this game. Good stuff, so thank you Oinkness for reminding me about this long forgotten game. And even more off-topic, I'm just curious if anyone has happened to play Escape from Delirium? It was another SCUMM-like DOS shareware game with tracked music that nobody played... cheers.

I remember this guy, his videos pop up on blogs I read. All kinds of quirky stuff. My may have been inspired by him... or maybe by an oral fixation.cheers.

Make a graph, you say? That happens to be my Achilles heel. I can't resist...

The system doesn't enforce that limit, so in cases of extenuating circumstances you can upload a little more than 6 megs (though I don't recall where the hard limit actually is). But I do appreciate you making the effort to comply with our 6 meg guideline nonetheless. Also, /voted cheers.

It's refreshing. When most products are released/announced they're hyped as "revolutionary" or something new when they're usually a reiteration. We've had pitch correction since the 80s, automated correction since the 90s, but DNA is a tool that genuinely allows you do something you couldn't do before. The tech doesn't work flawlessly, but it works well enough to open up a lot of possibilities. Salutes, Celemony; I've been having a lot of fun with this. cheers.

I semi-recently collected all my uncompressed tracks from when I was into video game remixing (2002-2006). 18 releases from various remix sites or projects, clocks in just under 700mb unzipped. You, or anyone else for that matter, are more than welcome to it. cheers.

Looks like you're right: +---------------------------+---------------+ | name | entries_count | +---------------------------+---------------+ | One Hour Compo - Round 52 | 19 | | One Hour Compo - Round 19 | 18 | | One Hour Compo - Round 30 | 18 | | One Hour Compo - Round 33 | 16 | | One Hour Compo - Round 50 | 16 | | One Hour Compo - Round 51 | 16 | | One Hour Compo - Round 35 | 15 | | One Hour Compo - Round 20 | 15 | | One Hour Compo - Round 28 | 15 | | One Hour Compo - Round 34 | 15 | +---------------------------+---------------+ 10 rows in set (0.07 sec) cheers.

Yeah, both the technology and the music as well. Electronic music has a long and interesting history that most folks opening up their copy Reason, FL, Live et al. are depressingly ignorant of. They either don't know, or don't know enough to appreciate what came before them. I recall a section from Ishkur's article on Italo Disco: Anyway, to get back on topic, earlier today I watched a documentary about the Stylophone: - http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/09/11/stylophone-documentary/ There's a guy around the middle of it that seems right out of a Christopher Guest mockumentary. On the whole it's weird that there even is a documentary about the Stylophone. But it's only 17 minutes, worth a gander. cheers.