It Falls Away | Susan Weber & Monet's Orbit

Posted:

October 31, 2009

This project has permeated my dreams, always a good sign. 'It Falls Away" is a track on my MONET'S ORBIT album. Lyrics are here.

Technical notes: I set up the project for release party footage from Spencer Kohan's Optura 200MC camera which provided 720 x 480 clips. For my Canon Vixia clips, I set Voltaic output resolution at 540p which created 960 x 540 clips, allowing some wiggle room while editing.

Input settings: Created new preset, DV-NTSC-SW720x480, based on DV-NTSC-Standard 48 kHz, only changed Fields from Interlaced to Progressive. Left audio sample rate at 48 kHz, even though output preset uses 44.1 kHz.

Output settings: Included a slight cropping on right and left, to line up with release party footage (inexplicably narrower than 720) and changing PAR from Standard 4:3 to (which stretched the vide sideways) to Square 1:1. New preset for this: 'ReleaseParty'

Attribution

Videography:

Andrew and Spencer Kohan, Susan Weber

Photography:

Susan Weber

Video Editing:

Susan Weber

Video Production:

Susan Weber

Audio Production:

Jay Bentoff, Walt Campbell and Susan Weber

Audio Engineering:

Jay Bentoff, Dark Tree Studios, Cleveland OH

Soundtrack:

'It Falls Away' is track #6 of Monet's Orbit, Susan Weber's rock album of original songs. Walt Campbell, bass; Chris Solt, drums/percussion; John McGrail, lead guitar; Susan Weber, guitar and vocals. Trees Mausser, performs drums and percussion in video. Filmed at the CD release party for Monet's Orbit on September 29, 2007. Lyrics & Music © Susan Weber

Tools

Video Camera:

Optura 200MC (Spencer Kohan's release party footage), Canon Vixia HF 100 (nature)

Still Camera:

Nikon Coolpix 5200

Editing Software:

Adobe Premiere Pro CS3

Video Settings

Codec Video:

H.264

Compression:

MP4