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Ideas on how to do a simple “songify…ish” video.
Hi there,
We’re shooting a very simple “red carpet” interview video at our local business awards banquet/event. The video is intended to be very informal; just a few semi-serious questions mixed with a lot of fun questions. We thought it would be fun to have each of the interviewees say just a few random words (which we specifically ask them to say) and then splice it together to create a fun mash-up video (I don’t think that’s the right term…)
We know who the honorary guest is, so we thought it would be fun to write a simple speech which we scramble, then after the mash up it’s apparent that it’s a speech (or song).
The problem is that we only have about an hour to do it before it’s shown at the event (and we’re editing the real interviews too). My first thought was simply using Songify, but I believe that time-remaps which would then break the video sync. Manually time remapping anything in AE or PPRO is out of the question simply because of our tight deadline. The most basic, easiest method would be to simply cut all of the clips together to say what I want it to say, but I was hoping for something just a LITTLE more creative. Is there an easy way to manually “songify” something which only changes pitch instead of speed? Or do you have some ideas or examples of something better or easier for me to try?
We just want this tiny part of the video to be done, but we’re in the 11th hour and have just thought about this idea. We’re shooting (and delivering) it this Thursday.
Any thoughts?
-Stephen Pickering
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2 Replies
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Hmmm. Interesting.
The best I can come up with is to experiment with your own, and perhaps a few other voices, using a simple pitch change. You could create clips that sound the way you want them, and use those as a base track for the entire “song”. You could take your time today and get it sounding pretty decent.
Then after you quickly cut it all together tomorrow, you copy and then “Paste Attributes” for each audio portion of the clip. Then simply mute the base track, or solo the shifted track and export the sequence.
The “PitchShifter” effect can be keyframed, so each individual phrase can be totally unique.
Heck, you could even subtitle it a bit like a singalong. Those titles would be ready to go and already on the timeline matched up to your voice. So if when you recorded the people on the red carpet, you got close enough to your own timing, a simple condense or stretch to fit will not hurt because you were going to pitch shift it anyway!
Just practice with someone saying what you want them to say, because since you know the lines, you might read it too fast.
Make sense? You have today. Make good use of it, and good luck.
Steven
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Thanks Steven! It does make sense. I’m going to play around with your idea and I’ll let you know if we actually try it or not. The PitchShifter sounds intriguing. I’ve never used it with keyframes before, so I’m interested in seeing how it works!
Thanks again!
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