Cinematic Video

[oluja]

Hello,

i made a Cinemativ with my old Dad, working in the wood. Filmed with Canon 1300D, stadnard objective and 50 mm 1,8.
It was a lot of work and sometime it was very hard in shotcut to realize.

Its not perfect and the next video will be improved. But done at least.

Please tell me your oppinion.

Thx!

[PaulusMaximus]

Cool!

[jonray]

@oluja - Wow, amazing - fantastic use of visual effects producing quite a work of art - and a really touching message at the end, too! I was hooked from beginning to end!!! Full marks for your creativity…

@oluja

It was a lot of work

I can imagine it was!! Thank for posting!!

PS I’m intrigued as to how you created the text effect for example ending at 1.05…

[Elusien]

Loved it, especially the voiceover at the beginning and the titles as well as the focus on the action. Well thought out and beautifully executed. I just had to look up the Croatian at the end “Volim te TATA” - “I love you DAD”.

[oluja]

Thank you very much!

[oluja]

Nice to read that you was hooked from beginning to the end, Thank you very much.

And about the titles. I used another program to create titles. Its impossible to create such titles in shotcut.

[oluja]

Thank you Elusien. And yes, the “voim the TATA” is in my parents language. They are from Croatia, but we live in Austria.

But not forgotten my origin.

Thanks for your words!

[geovideo]

Hi A lot of good work and close ups. I thought it was an ad for Sthil. I would have liked to see the narrator and a few more mid shots. Keep at it it’s not easy to please everyone. Remember to please yourself and keep memories alive. Good 1st try

[oluja]

Thanks for you honest oppinion. Thats because im wrote not perfect but done at least. Have to improve the next video.
But one question, why do you wanna see the narrator?

[jonray]

@oluja

Have to improve the next video.

Don’t be too hard on yourself now - the video was great! I’d look forward to your next one…

@oluja

why do you wanna see the narrator?

Yes, I wondered that - for me one beauty of the video is that faces are not shown - which adds to the mystery!!

@oluja

I used another program to create titles

I could replicate the first bit of the text effect in Shtcut using Text:HTML, but yes, making the letters vanish in a puff of smoke would be impossible right now in Shotcut. Do you mind me asking which program you used for the text effects?

[oluja]

Hello jonray,

thanks for your words. This increase my motivation for the next video.

To answer your question about the titles and program. A friend of mine have powerdirector and powerdirector have a bunch of cool titles. So i go to him, create the titles, exported it ant thats it.

Regards, Oluja!

[samth]

I agree with all the positive posts - good choice of a voice-over and of slowing down parts of the video .
Just the first few seconds of the voice-over were diffcult to comprehend due to the rain. This tip of Austin might help you in the future:

@Austin

When people mix speech tracks with music tracks, they often create a “swell” in the human voice range of the spectrum because all tracks are contributing to that range (music has sounds in the speech range too). This hot spot in the spectrum is bad news because normalizing the finished audio will cause the speech range to top out before the rest of the spectrum can top out, meaning your bass guitars and high-frequency sound effects will sound unnaturally quiet compared to the doubled-up speech range. This spectrum imbalance makes it harder to “sound loud” even though you’re punching at -13 LUFS. The solution is to create a hole in the music tracks so that music and speech don’t combine to make that part of the spectrum sound twice as loud as it should be.

To do this with Shotcut filters, mute everything except your speech track, then play it back while watching the Spectrum Analyzer scope in Shotcut. Notice which bar in the graph is consistently taller than the rest. (Widen the window dock so you can see every label on the graph.) For my wife’s voice, she usually talks at 500 Hz. Next, we go to the music tracks and add a Notch filter with a center frequency of 500 Hz (or whatever your fundamental speech frequency is) and a bandwidth of 150 Hz. This reduces the volume of the music in the frequency range that your voice is talking in, effectively creating a “hole” in the music for your speech track to fill. Now, when speech and music are summed together, you maintain an even frequency spectrum instead of doubling up in the speech range. This lets you raise the overall volume louder than you normally could, and most importantly, increases the intelligibility (clarity) of the speech because the music isn’t drowning out the speech anymore.

@jonray, the smoke effect is not exactly replicable, but with the text-shadow and/or blur property of CSS, a very similar one can be achieved (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImPaAem6sg).

[jonray]

@oluja

powerdirector have a bunch of cool titles.

Thanks for this information! It’s a lovely text effect.

@samth

but with the text-shadow and/or blur property of CSS, a very similar one can be achieved

Hi @samth, thanks for the link - I hadn’t seen that. Interesting. Will try it when I’ve completed a current project.

[Jaydip]

How can I control brightness contrast separately track wise. Means In one video track brightness low and in another track such as text track brightness may be high.
When I want to do this all tracks become same brightness features. But I want different brightness in different track separately.
Pls reply.

[sauron]

@Jaydip

How can I control brightness contrast separately track wise.

Filters can be applied to tracks. Select the track header then add filter(s) to it.
The funnel icon indicates that the track is filtered.

[dylan_chng]

A lot of planning must have gone into this to ensure a smooth video editing expereince.