Okay here's a music video challenge entry! Featuring 'Firestarter', 'Wonderful World', George Bush & Explosions.
<-- frames from the video.
This is only a very rough preview of what it might end up as, but I won't have time to finish it this week or maybe for a while (and I had to do this bit in Flash as I couldn't get the vids to load in anything else). Flash isn't designed for this sort of thing so it's tricky to get things neat and tidy.

It's 2 minutes though which is long enough for you to get the idea.
Download the video here www.jslator.myby.co.uk/wonderfulstarterpreview03.avi (5 MB) - DivX if you need it is here www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec5.html

The full mp3 of the song is here www.jslator.myby.co.uk/WonderfulStarterFull96.mp3

(the image of world peace is in the Wonderful World part - it's from a live performance and he introduces the song by explaining what would make the world a more wonderful place)

From the Photoshop for World Peace challenge. See all 365 entries (closed)

( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:04, archived)

Woooo
to the yay-o
(Al! is constantly suprised, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:15, archived)

music video? Crumbs - did I miss something yesterday?
b3ta goes to Hollywood? Nice work Professor. I shall view it when I can...Later.
( Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:20, archived)

Nice video ...
though for balance, I think Saddam and/or Osama should get equal screen time.
(Indole Ring, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:21, archived)

yeah, if i could get a proper editing prog working i'd have probably made an epic
but luckily i was stuck with flash for now, I couldn't get any audio from the vids either.
I'm glad i've done this bit though to stop it nagging at me. :)
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:29, archived)

Well, it's better than I can do
I'm still stuck in the silent era of animated gifs ...
(Indole Ring, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:31, archived)

VideoMach?
It's not free ($49), but can be used without registration, and has all the basic features, I think. I haven't plumbed its depths, not by a long shot... it's here.
( stereoroid yes, I'm a-Twit-ter, same name, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:49, archived)

cheers,
I should be able to use Premiere but it's stopped loading up properly and I've not spent the time trying to fix it.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 9:04, archived)

very nice
i'd agree that flash isn't the best for doing video stuff, but that looks and sounds great.

distracted me from starting work for a few minutes too, yay
(.doc, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:22, archived)

cheers
a job well done then :)
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:29, archived)

Blimey. V good.
What did you use to make it?
EDIT: by golly the frontpage is tattyfilarious today.
( Samsonite, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:32, archived)

just Flash mx, i wouldn't have really thought I could
but was pleasantly suprised, it's pretty limited but as long as you have the right videos prepared elsewhere you can use it to import and arrange. I couldn't split the videos, only cut them off at the end or put another layer on top. There might be more ways around it but i only started teaching myself mx yesterday.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:41, archived)

Yesterday?
Well how come you're so bloody good already?
not fair
( pxyzyzygy, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:45, archived)

i still can't get the hang of shape/motion tweening
and i can't draw, so i'll probably end up using it for all the wrong reasons like this.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:56, archived)

Wow showoff
I was wondering if you had used Premiere!
Still trying to get my head around file compression for avi to MPG, Quicktime and Real etc..
What do you find is the most efficient. So it's not too big and has a small frame size and is lossy?
( Samsonite, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:48, archived)

i did the m3tatweening (see my profile but beware my profile is possibly fit inducing) and this as a divx4 (fast motion)
i had problems getting really good compression though. I found a zip of m3tatween 2 with sound was about half the size which shouldn't really be the case.
I think the sound was part of he problem.
m3tatweening was put together in premiere then sound added in vegas, which let me use mp3 compression.
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:53, archived)

Mmm okay
food for thought. I guess I'll just have to keep experimenting.
Thanks.
( Samsonite, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:57, archived)

Having difficulty downloading the vid
but the mashup mp3 is the mutt's nuts, really nicely done. The whole mash thing last year got to silly proportions, and as the quantity went up, the quality went down.
This one gets a big

from me though...
( pxyzyzygy, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:34, archived)

the mash up was b3tan inspired, I was bored one evening and asked for ppl to name random tracks
and i'd try and mix the first two. This video's been going around in my head ever since :)
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:43, archived)

Come on now, surely you're several people really.
No one person's that clever.
( pxyzyzygy, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:46, archived)

or stays awake for so long

(Indole Ring, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 8:56, archived)

took me 30 mins
but I watched your ravin vid. Keep at it
(Jefrophiliac, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 9:05, archived)

thanks :)
Your name made me think of Jello Biafra btw, is there any connection?
( Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 5 Feb 2003, 9:13, archived)