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I filmed The Blaydon Race as I took part in it last week. It has had my life all week editing it due to very difficult raw footage I had to work with. I normally have the camera attached to a headband, but, had misplaced the clip. Consequently I had to carry the camera in my hand. This is it edited down to a little over the length of the song. I hope I've captured the spirit of the event many locals consider with pride as our Geordie race along with our Geordie Anthem.
I processed the video by loading it into Apple's iMovie and selected the pieces I wanted to use and exported them. I then loaded them into Adobe's Premier 6 and used the warp fx to control the camera shake, the results being like a steady cam. Then I output the parts and imported them back into iMovie as I wanted to use the Theme transitions available. This is a simplified version as it took a ridiculous amount of time because I stripped and re-built it 2-3 times until I was satisfied.
Considered as The Geordie National Anthem 'The Blaydon Races' song is used in the video. It is the first ever recording from 1908 by a local musichall comedian who used the stage name JC Scatter. His real name was Jimmy Cosgrove and was born in Byker, a suburb of Newcastle. I digitally re-mastered this recording taken from the original 78rpm record.
The recording is a 78rpm shellack record played on an old gramophone. The original song was too long to fit on the record so the technique back in those days was to speed the song up so that it would fit!!! The pitch on the record sounds almost like a girl. I put the song into VDJ and slowed it down by 20% which brings it back to its original state with the pitch sounding correct and recorded it to a wav file.
Then there was the awful scraping of the large needle. I loaded it into Adobe Audition 6 and took a signature of the scraping sound and then digitally removed it from the whole recording. The end result is amazing bearing in mind it was recorded in 1908, can you imagine what rubbish technology they had then?
Here is a link to the video, enjoy;
I processed the video by loading it into Apple's iMovie and selected the pieces I wanted to use and exported them. I then loaded them into Adobe's Premier 6 and used the warp fx to control the camera shake, the results being like a steady cam. Then I output the parts and imported them back into iMovie as I wanted to use the Theme transitions available. This is a simplified version as it took a ridiculous amount of time because I stripped and re-built it 2-3 times until I was satisfied.
Considered as The Geordie National Anthem 'The Blaydon Races' song is used in the video. It is the first ever recording from 1908 by a local musichall comedian who used the stage name JC Scatter. His real name was Jimmy Cosgrove and was born in Byker, a suburb of Newcastle. I digitally re-mastered this recording taken from the original 78rpm record.
The recording is a 78rpm shellack record played on an old gramophone. The original song was too long to fit on the record so the technique back in those days was to speed the song up so that it would fit!!! The pitch on the record sounds almost like a girl. I put the song into VDJ and slowed it down by 20% which brings it back to its original state with the pitch sounding correct and recorded it to a wav file.
Then there was the awful scraping of the large needle. I loaded it into Adobe Audition 6 and took a signature of the scraping sound and then digitally removed it from the whole recording. The end result is amazing bearing in mind it was recorded in 1908, can you imagine what rubbish technology they had then?
Here is a link to the video, enjoy;
Here is the original recording found on YouTube;
More background here on the Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaydon_Races
Posté Sun 16 Jun 13 @ 1:59 pm
