Cleverly done music video

[rustysterling]

It's not my kind of music but the video is interesting and inventive:

Mandy Moore

[Steve Grisetti]

That is pretty cool, Rusty.

Unfortunately, halfway through I found myself actually enjoying the song too. Uh oh.

[Jayell]

That was very clever. And I enjoyed the music (without apology)

[RJ Johnston]

That was fun to watch. Lot's of people will be trying to copy that. Song wasn't anything special.

[Wheat King]

Thought on "how" it was done? Obviously green screen was used and then each of the people in the clips were positioned or stacked. How would you achieve the effect constantly scrolling upwards. Maybe I'm missing something simple?

[rustysterling]

Yeah, I've been wondering about all this myself. It really is one of the cleverer music videos I've seen in a long time.

[Chuck Engels]

Must be the new TALL screen (soon to replace widescreen).
300,000 x 480 pixel resolution

[rustysterling]

LOL Chuck. And that gives me an idea about how this could be done. If I recall correctly you can rotate frames in PrE.

[Chuck Engels]

It is hard to think horizontally when watching vertical movement but, remember it is only a whole lot of clips all put together on a timeline

[rustysterling]

Chuck: I agree. Working with vertical files and thinking horizontally is difficult. In fact, I think I have a headache now.

[RJ Johnston]

I have a headache now, but I think I've got the part where it rolls from North to South. You can do it with stills or video, but you need two video tracks and the Push transition.

For stills, you arrange them on the timeline as follows, where a letter represents a certain still:

2: A B C D ...
1: B C D E ...


For videos, you split the video clips in half, where the first half is on video track 1 and the 2nd half follows on video track 2:

2: A2 B2 C2 D2 E2 ...
1: B1 C1 D1 E1 F1 ...

Now for the Push transition, there is one on each clip. For the clips on the top track, you drag the Push transition to the end of the clips, and drag the in-point of the transition to the beginning of the clips. Each clip is entirely covered by a Push transition. Set them North-to-South. For the clips on the bottom track, you drag the Push transition to the beginning of the clips, and drag the end-point of the transition to the end of the clips. Set them also North-to-South.

That seems to work.

[Wheat King]

I'm starting a new list... effects that I want to try when I have time. I guess you used clip to to split the video?

RJ... Hope your headache is gone... Nice job!

[RJ Johnston]

Split the video? I just took a clip and split it on the timeline, then dragged the last half up to the track above.

[mark hansen]

I just caught up with this string, that is something I would like to do with my grandson and son-in law...grandson on the bottom of course. I think I followed how to do it, just want to make sure you don't have to pan up on them... the transition does the movement - right.

Cool effects. Thanks for the lead.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Mark,
I think you will be better off letting the software do the panning, but you could give it a shot both ways if you are interested in a little experimentation

I would be very interested in how this turns out.