One more thing: browsing the forum, I’ve observed @Elusien is a member (I should have expected!) to whom I owe a big, special thanks for his JS and tutorials about how to create nice rolling credits in Shotcut, so I post below an older clip to show the result.
I’m not a big fan of visible ostensible use of filters, rather I prefer to use them discretely in order to enhance the story. From this point of view, this clip is the most “filtered” to-date: alongside slo-mo, fade-in/out, dissolve, HSL adjustments, overlay text, there is:
old-movie effect, at 1:33; tried to create the 1920’s, manual cranking movie look from a “making of” with the writer’s room clip: so alongside the old movie effects combined, the clip is also a bit sped-up, a bit blurred, reduced contrast, applied an white alpha overlay, together with a sepia tone.
scrolling credits over slideshow at 2:26: here I made a dissolve slideshow where images are a bit glowed, darkened, aligned to the left and a vignette applied in order not only to create a Rembrandt-esque dark look, but also to make room on right for Elusien rolling credits.
Bottom line, I really liked how the ending got. Like in “resurrection” above, the YouTube subtitles (CC) I made them using SubtitleWorkshop.
Again, thanks a lot - to both Shotcut devs and Elusien!
I like what you did with the filters - subtle yet effective.
Thanks for your comments. I spend more time these days “adding value” to Shotcut, with filters and frameworks, than actually using it to edit videos!
It’s great to be able to use my rusty old programming skills to produce something that is useful to so many people - glad to hear you are one of them. It has given me something to do here in Cyprus while waiting for the rain to stop - wettest winter in 100 years but summer is finally here!
I began to create Tutorials for German users, because german and new Tutorials of SHOTCUT are very rare, especially for the nowerly latest Version in 2019.
Hey everyone !
I uploaded my newest two videos and think I am ready to introduce my channel:
The first ones were rather a test because i started video and audio editing two months ago, so really a newbie.
My content is about educational and/or political topics and I am doing rather extensive research beforehand.
Depending on the topic I am creating two language versions, namely English and Swiss German.
I am really thankful for the developers and the helpful community around Shotcut - I don’t think I would be able to get to this level without all the tips and tutorials.
Because somebody asked me by PM how I counted the occurences in Notepad, here is the explanation, in case it’s useful:
First, I didn’t use the native Notepad, but the more powerful freeware Notepad++.
There, since even Notepad++ doesn’t provide the occurence count of a highlighed term, I used the “replace” trick:
press Ctrl+H to open the Replace dialog
in “Find what:” paste <producer id="producer
in “Replace with:” type anything you want (or leave it empty, doesn’t matter)
check “Match case” and “Wrap around” checkboxes
press “Replace All” button:
in the dialog’s status bar you’ll see: “Replace All: xxx occurences were replaced”
Important is to undo after that - or don’t save or, better, work on a copy of .mlt.
Hope it helps.
@DBP I’m not very deep in text editing, and usually I’m looking for alternative apps when the one I’m currently using lacks a feature I need - and it’s not the case of Notepad++ which I’m using it since its inception, I guess.
I firmly believe that each of us needs a specific kind of imagination in order to create/describe something - I’m saying this because even I’m considering myself as having a very rich imagination, beat me, I wouldn’t be able to do such composion in 1000 years! Great work, @sauron, thanks for sharing!
P.S My favorite visual effect moment is one very humble: the emboss at 3:07; I don’t know why, I guess my subconscious associate it with a stone wall, lasting.
P.S.2 In '80s we were hunting the black market for vinyls - you weren’t allowed to listen Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen… DAF, Sex Pistols, KISS, Black Sabbath? You could go straight to jail…
I didn’t know about it, enjoyed it this morning (at work! ) amazing, indeed! I still find myself in awe everytime when I see these big bands how much… hardware they carry to put such live show - think Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Jean-Michel Jarre - the keyboardists buried in keyboards, drummers buried in drumsets, quite surreal
Thanks for the clip!
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) amazing, indeed! I still find myself in awe everytime when I see these big bands how much… hardware they carry to put such live show - think Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Jean-Michel Jarre - the keyboardists buried in keyboards, drummers buried in drumsets, quite surreal 