The 1st 'Media Bandit' tutorial is available now. It is an interactive ebook that guides you through the whole process of downloading videos, converting them and extracting the audio etc. Laid out in step-by-step instructions where I take you by the hand and guide you through the lot.
In 'The Media Bandit Book of Free Vids & Audio' I show you where and how to get all the FREE software required to complete the whole process and of course how to use that software. With this tutorial ebook at hand you will be able to download all the videos you like to your hard-drive absolutely free, you will be able to add a codec that will enable 'Windows Media Player' to play video formats that it does not do normally by default, you will be able to convert your downloaded videos to any other video format you like so as to make DVDs for example; what's more if you just want the audio part of the video (the soundtrack) this tutorial will show you how to extract that from the video also to use as a stand alone audio file such as MP3 or WAV for example.
'The Media Bandit Book of Free Vids & Audio' is available from 'PayLoadz' or on 'Amazon Kindle', and will be available from my own site at 'Stanton Publishing' soon. I have tried to price it reasonably low so that anyone can afford it, plus tagging a high price to an ebook about getting FREE stuff would be defeating the object don't you think?
I have also recorded some video tutorials to go with 'The Media Bandit Book of Free Vids & Audio' and you can find a glimpse of them now on 'YouTube', just look or subscribe to my 'YouTube' account 'PREnterprisesUK'. There's only a few of the video tutorials uploaded at the moment but I may upload some more soon, we'll see how it goes.
Not all the video tutorials will be available for free on 'YouTube' as I plan to sell them as an accompaniment to 'The Media Bandit Book of Free Vids & Audio' or as an extra but rest assured I will price them very reasonably. You can get a glimpse of what's to come by looking on 'YouTube' but for now here is the first one for your viewing pleasure, please excuse the breathing into the mic as I'm still getting used to using it.
Get the ebook tutorial by clicking any of the links below and please feel free to comment on and share the 'YouTube' vids.
Thanks!
'Media Bandit'
http://store.payloadz.com/go?id=947456
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005F50FM8
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Monday, 19 September 2011
Friday, 8 July 2011
A brief description of how to make your own karaoke video
By utilising your previously downloaded or created instrumental audio file in a standard (freely available download of course) video creator or editor it is possible to make your own simple karaoke version of the tune.
To make karaoke however you should be sure to only use an instrumental version of the song. To get your instrumental song file you can either use one you already have on your hard-drive or an audio CD, download one from the internet, or use a midi file.
A good and safe way to get a good quality audio mp3 or wav file to use I suggest you take the audio from an online music video; download the selected music video using SpeedBit Video Downloader and then convert or extract the audio section of the video using a suitable converter such as Any Video Converter or Freez flv to mp3 converter, all available as totally free downloads – exactly what you expect from ‘Media Bandit’, free stuff! My 1st media ebook explains exactly how to do this.
Alternatively use a free midi file or one you’ve created yourself using perhaps the method explained briefly in a couple of earlier blog posts (see here and here).
To get free midi files my favourite method is to use VanBasco which gives you access to thousands of totally free midi downloads – they also have a very user-friendly kar player you can grab for free. Once at their site just type the name of the tune you want into the search bar and you will be confronted with a list of available versions of your desired tune, click on the one you want and once directed to the source just right click and select ‘save target as’ to download the midi song to your hard-drive, it only takes a second or so.
Alternatively search for the title of your desired midi tune followed by the suffix mid or midi using a good search engine. Once found right click and ‘save target as’ as mentioned before, or click the download button in some cases.
If your instrumental audio is not already in wav or mp3 format but is in midi format you will in most cases need to convert it to use it with a video creator or editor. To do this I recommend using ‘Switch Audio File converter’, go to http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html and click on ‘Download the free version’. This will easily convert your midi file to an mp3, wav or almost any format you like.
A good free video editor or creator can easily be found on all recent ‘Windows’ platforms – I think it’s available with ‘Windows XP’ and later versions and is simply called ‘Windows Movie Maker’.
If however you would rather try a different editor or creator or you don’t have ‘Windows Movie Maker’ on your PC then I suggest VideoPad Video Editor from ‘NCH software’, this is actually a free trial version that I have found to be the easiest to use in my opinion and I highly recommend it. The only drawback with this however is that after the trial period it locks you out if you don’t pay for the full version, but you can get around this but I don’t think it is wise to explain how here; please email me at prenterprises2010@gmail.com if you would like to know.
Once you have your video creator or editor and your instrumental audi file you can add background images or video clips, add sequenced lyrics so as the performer knows what to sing, then save it all as a video file on your PC. You can then convert it if you wish to an alternative format for use in your playback equipment, Any Video Converter as mentioned earlier will do this for you.
The basic step-by-step process involves:
Finding or creating your own background images or video clips
Inserting your clips or images into the video creator or editor in the right sequence
Removing or muting any audio in the video clips and then adding your own audio file
Changing the duration of the images or clips to appear in sequence at the right time with the music
Adding the lyrics into the visual part of your video; if you don’t know the lyrics then do a lyric search in Google
Previewing and saving your completed masterpiece karaoke video for later use
Of course you could also record your own singing voice into it if you think you are talented enough. One distinct advantage of a decent free video editor/creator is that if your singing is a bit rough you can always mute or remove it from the finished video.
To make karaoke however you should be sure to only use an instrumental version of the song. To get your instrumental song file you can either use one you already have on your hard-drive or an audio CD, download one from the internet, or use a midi file.
A good and safe way to get a good quality audio mp3 or wav file to use I suggest you take the audio from an online music video; download the selected music video using SpeedBit Video Downloader and then convert or extract the audio section of the video using a suitable converter such as Any Video Converter or Freez flv to mp3 converter, all available as totally free downloads – exactly what you expect from ‘Media Bandit’, free stuff! My 1st media ebook explains exactly how to do this.
Alternatively use a free midi file or one you’ve created yourself using perhaps the method explained briefly in a couple of earlier blog posts (see here and here).
To get free midi files my favourite method is to use VanBasco which gives you access to thousands of totally free midi downloads – they also have a very user-friendly kar player you can grab for free. Once at their site just type the name of the tune you want into the search bar and you will be confronted with a list of available versions of your desired tune, click on the one you want and once directed to the source just right click and select ‘save target as’ to download the midi song to your hard-drive, it only takes a second or so.
Alternatively search for the title of your desired midi tune followed by the suffix mid or midi using a good search engine. Once found right click and ‘save target as’ as mentioned before, or click the download button in some cases.
If your instrumental audio is not already in wav or mp3 format but is in midi format you will in most cases need to convert it to use it with a video creator or editor. To do this I recommend using ‘Switch Audio File converter’, go to http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html and click on ‘Download the free version’. This will easily convert your midi file to an mp3, wav or almost any format you like.
A good free video editor or creator can easily be found on all recent ‘Windows’ platforms – I think it’s available with ‘Windows XP’ and later versions and is simply called ‘Windows Movie Maker’.
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| VideoPad video editor |
Once you have your video creator or editor and your instrumental audi file you can add background images or video clips, add sequenced lyrics so as the performer knows what to sing, then save it all as a video file on your PC. You can then convert it if you wish to an alternative format for use in your playback equipment, Any Video Converter as mentioned earlier will do this for you.
The basic step-by-step process involves:
Inserting your clips or images into the video creator or editor in the right sequence
Removing or muting any audio in the video clips and then adding your own audio file
Changing the duration of the images or clips to appear in sequence at the right time with the music
Adding the lyrics into the visual part of your video; if you don’t know the lyrics then do a lyric search in Google
Previewing and saving your completed masterpiece karaoke video for later use
Of course you could also record your own singing voice into it if you think you are talented enough. One distinct advantage of a decent free video editor/creator is that if your singing is a bit rough you can always mute or remove it from the finished video.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Video creation and editing
You can easily make your own videos by making use of one of the totally free video creation or editing software packages available from the internet.
It is not difficult once you've got the hang of the functions and controls, but you will need to pay attention to detail.
Here is my very first attempt at video creation using free software. It's not great but I don't think it's too bad for a first attempt, I have a lot to learn yet! Let me know what you think.
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