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Documentation for Classical Music in Select Films |
from the audio of Clockwork Orange, Ordinary People, and Amadeus where my selection crossed chapter boundaries. I ripped the movie one chapter at a time and discovered that the ripper knows about frames in video but does not know about zero crossings in the audio waveform, made apparent when I rejoined the audio from two chapters. By expanding the waveform in Audition, I could easily remove the audio glitch, loosing only an inaudible waveform zero-crossing or two. I then used Premiere Pro to replace the original audio track with the edited, combined track. I exported each film segment into its own avi file, so if I needed to make any adjustments (I did.), I would only have to deal with each film segment (no more than 90 seconds long, and the titles and transitions would remain intact). |
My next step was to determine the order of the segments and the length of the entire presentation. I knew that I wanted Amadeus to be first and the 9th Symphony clip of Clockwork Orange last (because dialogue speaks of film with only music). I edited the William Tell clip of Clockwork for time and completely left Platoon out of the presentation, partly from the length of the presentation and partly to maintain the variety of films. The two main blackbox issues I had to deal with were learning how to make titles with consistant formats and dealing with the video editing and formatting for the proper aspect ratio even when most of the clips came from widescreen. The latter error was not something my fellow Blackbox students were willing to overlook! |
Screen shot of the transition between CD (top) and DVD (bottom) audio tracks from Apocalypse Now. Notice the low frequencies in the DVD audio from the helicopters. |
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