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Up first is the newest version of my 1812 explosion video. I’ve done a number of versions over the last dozen or more years. This is the first version I’ve done in a while though, and is the first time I’ve done the editing digitally (a major improvement, of course). As one could tell pretty quick by watching the video, it’s simply clips of explosions from movies set to the 1812 overture…
Here is my Battlestar Galactica music video, version 1.0. This is part music video compilation, part visual effects reel. Ultimately, it was just me messing around with the always amazing visual effects footage from Battlestar Galactica, setting it to some music I’d been wanting to edit stuff to. The material is from the first season and a half of the show. I’ll be revisiting this video either after season 3 hits DVD, or perhaps after season 4 now that they’ve announced it’ll be the final season. Music is (in order, all film scores):
- Swordfish (Christopher Young)
- The Bourne Identity (John Powell)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (John Powell)
- The Bourne Supremacy (John Powell)
Here’s another example of me doing a music video that’s basically a VFX demo reel. This time, it’s for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (not only my favorite series of the Trek franchise, but one of my favorite TV series). In more ways than one, the series was a lead-in to the work on Battlestar Galactica. Battlestar’s show-runner, Ron Moore, was a key writer/producer on DS9. The VFX supervisor was Gary Hutzel, who went on to lead VFX for Ron Moore on BSG. DS9 had the unique honor of existing during the transition to CGI and had a vast range of model & CGI work. Music is Pompeii by ES Posthumus, from the fantastic “Unearthed” CD.
Starting to climb into the wayback machine for this one. This is the first video I ever edited digitally. It’s from 1998. I had just gotten my Miro DC30 video capture/edit card (a card that I grew to truly despise the more I used it) and was thrilled with what I could do with it conceptually vs what I was constrained to during my previous S-VHS editing days. This video was me messing with a “what if” scenario at the time with the idea of Star Wars as modernly produced/advertised by Jerry Bruckheimer. Like most of my little video creations, I was only marginally happy with the end result. Still, it’s a fun little piece of nostalgia for me.
This video originated as a VHS edited video project by my older brother in the early 90′s. A couple years later, in 1994 I think, I made a pass at recreating the video as closely as I could with better quality via an S-VHS edit. The original was sourced off the original Fox laserdisc release of ROTJ (which had the last disc side in CAV format, so the smooth 1/4 speed playback was possible). I used the newly released Star Wars Trilogy Definitive laserdisc box set to source my version (this one). The music is Vangelis’ “L’Enfant”. My brother came up with the video title. If you think about the visuals and the title, the meaning might eventually come to you. Still to this day, this video proves to be more popular with friends than most any other that we’ve done over the years. I guess it just has a more artistic quality than most of the others I’ve done.