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How to make a music video

How I did it

If you want to do it the way I did it, I used Adobe Premiere but it's kind of hard to use and very expensive.

 

The fastest way

The fastest way to automatically make a music video is to use automated software like Muvee. It automates the whole process. But it's not free and not as good as doing it manually. 

 

The best way

The best free manual solution is Microsoft Windows Movie Maker2. You can learn how to use it at Windowsmoviemakers.

 

What does a good music video look like?

To give you an idea of what a good fan made music video looks like, here's one of the best fan made music videos ever made - 

Euphoria by Koopiskeva

Video:: Rahxephon
Audio:: Must Be Dreaming - Frou Frou
Release Date:: 04/01/2003

You can download it here:

Euphoria.avi 86mb

Randomdestination.com/members/koop/

 

To learn how to make good music videos try these links:

How to make a music video guide

How To Make Your Own Anime Music Video

Make Your Own Music Videos with Adobe Premiere

 

Fan video article

Strangenewworlds.com/ Fan Music Videos - During the last decade, a new media form came into the world: the song video, otherwise known as fan music videos, or song vids.

For those who have missed song video showings at conventions, or have never had a tape foisted on you by a friend obsessed with making vids, let me attempt to explain this creative form of fan art. Imagine clips from a favorite television show or movie edited to a song. As an example, here is a brief description of a Star Trek song video using Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sounds of Silence. This song vid was made several years ago by Mary Van Deusen, a maker of many early song vids now considered classics. The song opens with a few quiet guitar notes. We hear:

" Hello, darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again"*

while we are shown Kirk sitting alone in his apartment with his book and broken spectacles (footage from Star Trek III: The Search for Spock). During the next lines of the song, the vid maker presents us with a "flashback" to years before — Kirk, exhausted and grief-stricken and Spock giving him the healing mind-meld touch. We do not hear Spock whispering the single word of dialogue, "Forget." Instead we hear Simon and Garfunkel's lyrics

"Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping."

But because this is a memorable moment in the series, most fans know what Spock is saying to Kirk. It is this knowledge of the significance of the image that conveys an additional meaning to Star Trek fans, though the message would be lost to those unfamiliar with the series.

This image is then juxtaposed with clips from Spock’s heroic demise. Combined with the earlier images and with the haunting lyrics, these images now hold a significance not displayed in the original. The vid becomes more than the sum of its parts. Spock's mental command to "Forget" is eerily mirrored when just before his death he implants his consciousness in McCoy’s mind while uttering the single word, "Remember."

 

Michael Shipley