Video for Scoring Practice
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Video for Scoring Practice
I'm looking for a video on which to practice scoring. I encountered the Elephant's Dream video, and I find it pretty compelling and possibly suitable for the style I'm going for.
Does anyone know how I can download that video without music? I've been to the archive site, there are dozens of links, but I have no idea which one is what I need.
Or, alternatively, does anyone have a link to a suitable action/adventure/suspense video I can use for practice?
Thanks very much in advance!
Does anyone know how I can download that video without music? I've been to the archive site, there are dozens of links, but I have no idea which one is what I need.
Or, alternatively, does anyone have a link to a suitable action/adventure/suspense video I can use for practice?
Thanks very much in advance!
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
You don't say what OS other than Mac. You can record the screen in Quicktime without audio in Mojave and earlier.
To record a video on your Mac:
Open QuickTime.
Tap “File” at the top of the display.
Choose “New Screen recording”
Hit record.
You can record the whole screen, or click and drag your mouse cursor to record just a specific part.
Although that still works in Mojave, Apple recommends this for Mojave & Catalina
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721
There are many apps, free and paid that allow you to also record audio at the same time. I use BlackHole:
https://existential.audio/blackhole/
To record a video on your Mac:
Open QuickTime.
Tap “File” at the top of the display.
Choose “New Screen recording”
Hit record.
You can record the whole screen, or click and drag your mouse cursor to record just a specific part.
Although that still works in Mojave, Apple recommends this for Mojave & Catalina
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721
There are many apps, free and paid that allow you to also record audio at the same time. I use BlackHole:
https://existential.audio/blackhole/
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Re: Video for Soring Practice
There should be something here that you can use: https://archive.org/details/ElephantsDream
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
Hi,mikehalloran wrote:You don't say what OS other than Mac. You can record the screen in Quicktime without audio in Mojave and earlier.
To record a video on your Mac:
Open QuickTime.
Tap “File” at the top of the display.
Choose “New Screen recording”
Hit record.
You can record the whole screen, or click and drag your mouse cursor to record just a specific part.
Although that still works in Mojave, Apple recommends this for Mojave & Catalina
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721
There are many apps, free and paid that allow you to also record audio at the same time. I use BlackHole:
https://existential.audio/blackhole/
I want to keep the production sound, FX, foley, dialog, etc, just not the music.
I'm running an old Mac Pro, upgraded to a XEON 3.33 Ghz 6-core, 32 GB RAM, OS 10.12.
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
Hello,CharlzS wrote:There should be something here that you can use: https://archive.org/details/ElephantsDream
Yes, that's the Archive site I mentioned, there are just so many links and no obvious way to tell if any of them have the movie with all the sound except music.
Re: Video for Scoring Practice
You can download the MOV file which contains no music or dialog here: https://media.xiph.org/ED/
The dialog is in the 5.1 C channel. You'll be missing the effects and music, but something closer to what you're looking for.
The dialog is in the 5.1 C channel. You'll be missing the effects and music, but something closer to what you're looking for.
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
I teach film scoring, there's a few good films with either no music or very little music so you can add some.
Castaway (very little music)
Duel (Spielberg, 1972?, there's maybe one piece of music)
Kiss or Kill (Australian film)
Patton (very little music)
Interiors (no music)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (unreal movie)
Dog Day Afternoon(no music)
No Country for Old Men (has very little music)
Castaway (very little music)
Duel (Spielberg, 1972?, there's maybe one piece of music)
Kiss or Kill (Australian film)
Patton (very little music)
Interiors (no music)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (unreal movie)
Dog Day Afternoon(no music)
No Country for Old Men (has very little music)
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
BDR - not to mention Dracula (Lugosi) and virtually every silent film ever made. And a lot of the Silents are public domain- just sayin.
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
Is there any possibility of working with film teachers/students to get excerpts to work with? Perhaps they could be approached to request renders sans-music of recent projects, or working with in-progress projects or long-abandoned projects.
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
Yes, of course. You are the Maestro of the Silents! Nice to have a few choices for practice that have dialog and SFX to get in the way of.MIDI Life Crisis wrote:BDR - not to mention Dracula (Lugosi) and virtually every silent film ever made. And a lot of the Silents are public domain- just sayin.
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Not to mention how easy it is working with dead effing directors. Lol
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Re: Video for Scoring Practice
For dialog, sound effects and foley, it can be entertaining to just do a track of voice and mouth noises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq-Ek_wCyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq-Ek_wCyM
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