Vexercise 5 drops! (lyrical play + )

[lola]

Hi folks! We're on to Vexercise 5!  You can of course do the OG version, as follows: 

Produce a 1 minute video edit from your selected source, in which lyrical interpretation ( guides your shot choice. You could interpret the lyrics literally or metaphorically/suggestively. Once you have completed this video, choose selected lyrics to incorporate creatively as text within the video. Then make a version of this video with the text, but substituting the original audio with a different piece of music that has no lyrics.

OR you can do a version with keyframes for moving text and text masking: 

Follow the guidelines for the OG version, but try using key frames for moving text or text masking. (Links for tutorials and examples coming soon)

Here are a couple of short tutorials for Premiere that I've found helpful. If you know of others, for Premiere or for other editing tools, please share in the comments and I'll add them to this post. 
 

Easiest Cinematic Title Minimal & Clean
How to place video within text
Add text behind a moving object
Typewriter effect 
How to Make a Lyric Video

Inspirations for typography (a whole playlist!) And feel free to rec more in the comments! 

Comments

[snycock]

I got a really late start on this - I had a bunch of ideas and couldn't decide what I wanted to do, and I figured that putting text in was going to be a steep learning curve in Davinci Resolve, but, surprisingly, once I'd decided on lyrics, things actually came together fairly well. The text wasn't as difficult as I'd thought, it was actually sort of fun to play around with, and I'm pleased with how it came out.

I do only have one vid, though, because 4K Downloader has stopped working for me and so I couldn't download the song I took my lyrics from, and I had to use an instrumental piece I already had (and had used on a prior vid). Any advice? I've uninstalled and reinstalled, rebooted, turned my firewall off, done a virus check, and it just keeps telling me either it can't parse the link or it gives me an error.

Losing My Religion

[lola]

Okay, first of all, I love this version and I really love what you did with the font choices, movement, formatting, and such!
Hmmm for the 4k issues... have you tried with other files? Is it just that file? The only times I've had issues like that it's been specific files that are somehow protected against 4k video downloader (especially things you need to pay for on youtube, but occasionally other things). Then I have to resort to getting it otherwise, buying it on itunes, or some such.
I could try to dl it for you and see if i get anywhere?

[lola]

ohhhh actually i just tried to download some things and this happened to me too! but I installed the update and now it's working... so try installing the current update?

[snycock]

I think that must have been it - it (of course) was working fine when I tried it again recently. But thank you for the offer! And thanks for the lovely comments on the vid!

[seasaltmemories_14]

Ah it was really interesting hearing an instrumental of a song whose lyrics I knew paired with lyrics I was unfamiliar with, felt like it added to this sense of narrative, like you were displaying their hidden thoughts as they fell in love

[snycock]

Ah, wonderful! That's pretty much what I was going for. Thank you for the comment!

[jinkyo]

Oh, this was really good! I'm familiar with the REM song, not the instrumental. I think you made some great lyric choices to put onscreen as text. "bigger" made me smile. I don't know the source well enough to understand what is happening here other than - Dude! big predator cat back there!

"You are not me" perfect text+visual

"I haven't said enough" really caught my attention- heck yeah for mastering masking!! I use Resolve too and have yet to have the courage to try this.

"me in the corner, me in the spotlight, losing my religion". For sources that I don't know, I end up creating my own stories to make sense of what I'm watching. I have no idea why the guy had to give a press conference but everything about his body language suggests it wasn't good. Along with the reactions from the other guy watching - this section felt so satisfying to watch. Like a very strong text+visual story conclusion.

Great work on this!!

** A 4K downloader note - I also got stuck with the parsing error last week. Under the help menu is the link to 4K's Twitter. They knew about the problem and got it fixed a few days later. LOL! too late for the project I was working on and I ended up screen recording the YT vid I needed. But, if you ever run into a 4K downloader issue again, check the Twitter because there's a good chance it's not just you and more likely a YT change that broke the software for a while.

[snycock]

Thank you! I'm so pleased that it worked for you! It was fun to think about which lyrics I was going to choose as text that fit what was going on. You are pretty much spot on about the press conference. :-)

The masking was SO EASY in Resolve. There's just a menu of things to choose from, and it will preview what it will look like on the screen.

And thanks for the note about 4K Downloader - that's good to know. I thought maybe it was just because I had reinstalled it. But I'm glad to know about their Twitter and I'll use it if another issue comes up.

Thank you again!