Sound Mixing..

For this Unit i was asked to create a music clip that was edited in Audacity. I were told to edit the soundtrack and use fade in fade out which allowed me create something different and make it sound original instead of it sounding like a normal music track.
I used a track called show me love by steve angelo. This sound track was an extended sound track. I imported an .mp3 sound track into audacity from my track listing. Then what i did was i used a cut n drag tool, where it allowed me to cut bits from the soundtrack. Due to the sound track being very long i took all the base and beats out and used fade in in the begging. I then cut the middle part of the song off and a bit of the end and used fade out. I achieved a PASS for this. in order to get a higher grade i was told to create few more sound tracks but use more that 1 or even 2 soundtracks and use cross over fade. This will allow me to gain more experince and also a higher grade..

2nd June 2009 Development

Yesterday on the 2nd of june i started working on the CD-ROM to improve and get a better grade..

This is the feed back i got from Mark Tower
"CD-ROM Product:
-Excellent piece of work, professional design and clear navigation.
Points to consider to gain a higher grade:
-Video splash page is quite plain, compared to the rest of your designs - consider improving the design.
-Additional audio content could be included, e.g. button sounds, additional background music etc.
-The videos files don't appear in the video section (I have seen this working, but would be nice to fix it).
-Additional transitions / animations could be included throughout.
-Consider adding additional technical qualities, speak to me in person or email me about this one."

I started on re-designing the pages that i wasn't very happy about and also the pages that mark suggested needed o bit of work. I created a page that had smoke effect and also had a sense of difference just so it would fit in with the idea and vision that had. After creating this i then realized that everything that i had laid out on screen had to be tweaked and moved just so it would fit around the design.

After doing this i when on to the next point, which was sort the video page out because the videos weren't appearing up when rolling over the animation. I sorted this problem out by re-directing the browser. Basically this is when uploading the .flv files on component inspector. The problem that i had was that when the computer was searching for the video files i directed it through a long stream of folders and files, which then the computer lost info when opening it up next time. The way i sorted this problem out was by just writing the file name as it was with flv at the end.
As such as: Sonic Snow.flv
This specifically tells the computer that it wants this file to appear, instead of it looking through many folders and many apps.
After sorting this problem out what i had to do was re size the video and place it where it will be suitable for the design. Another thing that i did and also got help in was one of the videos didn't look wide screen, which made the video look squashed and out of proportion, unlike the others. So what Mark did was he put it in movie maker and made the video from boxed out to wide screen.

What i did then was i used video encoder to change the file format and inserted in. I then changed the size of the video and made it fit on to the design.

Finally there was one minor blip that i had to sort out which was the music, what happened was that when i created my CD-ROM i had separated files for every page. Due to this it interrupted my music file, when clicking next. the way i had to sort this out was asking Mark for advice in how i could make the music go though out the whole video.

Mark came up with the idea of changing all the buttons from "0" to "1", which allowed the pages to overlap on each other, however after trying several times i realized that it wasn't possible.

When Mark had another look he then decided we insert a blank .fla file, which is a blank page to start before the enter page. This allowed the enter page to lay on top and allow the music to play. this worked brilliantly.

After this success i started changing the number of the buttons from "0" to "1", which actually worked. However just when i thought it was working perfectly, i realized that after clicking on one of the characters. i showed it to my tutor and he found that one fo the buttons werent on 1 so after changing that everything was working the way it was supposed to.