{"id":300,"date":"2017-09-19T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:40:54","slug":"video-production-for-an-illustrated-drawing-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2017\/video-production-for-an-illustrated-drawing-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Production for an Illustrated Drawing Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R9gSulywn0o\">fun personal project illustrating and reciting nursery rhymes<\/a> for my son with special needs, and other kids who need low-intensity entertainment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9gSulywn0o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>At first glance there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much production effort involved \u2013 just a sketch book and a sharpie. Permit me to share a bit about the things unseen.<\/p>\n<p>To the right of the filming area I kept the nursery rhyme book I was using. To the left was my laptop and microphone. I am sorry that I don&#8217;t have a picture at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The video was filmed using a Nikon D90 digital SLR attached to a tripod, suspended over my work table. This worked nicely but was limited to filming 5 minutes at a time in the highest resolution. The other limitation was the camera&#8217;s microphone was neither high-quality nor positioned close enough to capture my voice very well.<\/p>\n<p>For audio I used an AT2035 condenser microphone plugged into an M-Audio Fasttrack Pro sound capture board, which was in turn plugged into my Mac via USB. My recording software of choice was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/\">Audacity<\/a>. After recording the high-quality audio, I used the Normalise and Noise Reduction filters (which were hardly needed) to make the quality top-notch.<\/p>\n<p>Recording happened in a series of starts and stops. Sometimes I attempted a rhyme which did not lend itself well to drawing. Other times the camera would come to the end of its time limit and I would need to start over.<\/p>\n<p>When finished recording I had a couple dozen video files from the camera, and I exported multiple MP3 files from Audacity. I imported the video and audio into iMovie and began to edit out the unwanted portions and add fade transitions between clips. I split the low-quality audio from the video track. This allowed me to see the waveform of the original audio and align them perfectly with the imported high-quality MP3 files beneath. Once that was done, I would put the audio level of the low-quality track above to zero.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nursery-Rhyme-Timeline-500x110.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nursery-Rhyme-Timeline-500x110.png 500w, https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nursery-Rhyme-Timeline-768x170.png 768w, https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Nursery-Rhyme-Timeline.png 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was not satisfied with the white balance of the video (it was too yellow) so I adjusted that easily using the iMovie controls.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a good quality title screen so I sped up the drawing portion of that, and spent a few minutes in GarageBand to record the jingle. After plugging into my electric piano via a USB MIDI convertor, I selected an appropriate keyboard voice from the many options. I had to start the recording in GarageBand, then switch to iMovie to start the video so I could play the jingle in time to the drawing. After doing that I exported an AIFF file and imported that into iMovie for the final cut.<\/p>\n<p>iMovie has the wonderful option of publishing directly to YouTube, so I used that. It took quite a while to upload the 72-minute video but it went smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>All told it was about a full day of work from start to completion. If you know of anybody who would enjoy the video, please share it with them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently did a fun personal project illustrating and reciting nursery rhymes for my son with special needs, and other kids who need low-intensity entertainment. At first glance there doesn&#8217;t seem to be much production effort involved \u2013 just a sketch book and a sharpie. Permit me to share a bit about the things unseen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/2017\/video-production-for-an-illustrated-drawing-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video Production for an Illustrated Drawing Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28GE6-4Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confidant.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}