Da Hawk
Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme Song (full song w/DJ Jazzy Jeff)
updated
Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion sing their parts now all combined smoothly into one seamless song.
1:58 - Adriana Caselotti (Snow White)
Surely someone else has done this long before, yes?
But I have no idea where that is, because I looked for it and could not find it. And so it's been done quite simply here.
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owner of the classic movie with its songs released on August 10th, 1939. Four source videos are listed below:
Scarecrow - youtu.be/hG3mJcUzwaI
Tin Man - youtu.be/n0Tpa-Evi00
Lion - youtu.be/Pdh9JhwZ8nc
Off to see the Wizard - youtu.be/DBVAwOx85wI
Here we are 85 years later, and from the best I can tell, this is the first time this type of smooth edit has been posted publicly. If you know of where this has been offered somewhere else, please post in the comments, and the words here will be updated.
1:37 - audio reverts back to the inferior DVD quality for the end credits. (If you do know of a better quality version of this that was previously uploaded on YouTube, please link in the comments and I will correct the assertion that this video is the best available at the time of this posting.)
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owners of the source two videos listed below:
Visual/audio source 1 (from DVD) - youtube.com/watch?v=9MrvTfBtnQM
Audio source 2 - youtube.com/watch?v=k7PUbWPRLIg
The CD had to have the tempo slowed down by -1.672% to match the visuals. About half a dozen drum fills from the DVD audio were added back in to help give it more punch, which was in the original pilot version of this theme. And one more drum hit was added at ~1:00 to go along with the filmed Taiko drum hit ('Taiko' is the Japanese equivalent). I could have reprocessed the visuals to make this synch better, but I decided to leave it as is. There is also a visual glitch of a few frames just before the intro starts. I decided to leave that alone as well. Perhaps someone will decide to clean up these two spots. Maybe I will do it myself in a future effort.
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Starring Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett.
Co-starring Nancy Kwan.
James MacArthur did not appear until after this pilot for his iconic role as Danno.
- Eclipse TOTALITY filmed by Lucie McCormick in Mason, Texas on April 8th, 2024 (0:34-1:12 'Diamond Ring')
- Timelapse before & after is from the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, filmed in Casper, Wyoming (0:14-0:34 & 1:12-1:34)
- The SURPRISE is a Learjet which happened to jet straight through the Moon & Sun during Totality. This last part of the video was captured by 'kyzercube' at Whiteley Park in Poplar Bluff, Missouri (kyzercube.com)... in the following SEVEN segments:
-- Still image clearly shows the Solar Prominences amid the Corona seen during Totality.
-- Full speed clip in real time, with audio.
-- Full speed clip with audio, shortened
-- Half speed clip (no audio)
-- 1/4 speed clip
-- 1/10 speed
-- SYNTHESIZED 1/10th speed (this very last part has an artificially superimposed Learjet shadow masking a still image of the Sun & Moon, rendered to depict what this capture would have looked like had the video camera been running at a frame rate of ~30fps. This is NOT an interpolation of the actual video, but rather a cartoon dragging of a rendered jet shadow pulled across a still image screencapture)
- The very start of this video (0:00-0:14) is likewise SYNTHESIZED (the Celestron source video started at a slight Partial Eclipse phase, so I photoshopped that little bite to fill in the Sun as a full circle, and then dragged a circular Moon shadow into it in a cartoon fashion, to the point matching the start of the source video)
I know the music is cliche. But I'm a sucker for Arthur C Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (theme 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' introduction). This will never get old to me.
To summarize the 4 parts:
1) 2017 TSE timelapse from Casper, Wyoming (beginning segment SYNTHESIZED)
2) 2024 TSE TOTALITY timelapse from Mason, Texas, filmed by Lucie McCormick
3) 2017 TSE timelapse (Casper, Wy again)
4) 2024 TSE Totality from Whiteley Park in Poplar Bluff, Missouri by 'kyzercube' (repeated several times at various speeds, with and without audio, with the very last segment being a cartoon SYNTHESIS)
With the exception of the very beginning (13 seconds) and the very ending (final 10 seconds) this video was captured by real people using real video cameras.
Visual Sources:
1) 2024 Totality in Mason, Tx by Lucie McCormick - youtube.com/watch?v=zD9ryv_QhpY
2) 2017 Celestron in Wy (pre&post-totality) - youtube.com/watch?v=HM5w7Aq8buw
3) 2024 Totality kyzercube Learjet - youtube.com/watch?v=wx_E0tKsflA&t=8m25s
Audio source:
'Also Sprach Zarathustra' introduction, composed in 1896 by Richard Strauss (first performed also in 1896) - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan
I own nothing. Copyright belongs to the owners of the sources listed above.
IF YOU KNOW who the videographer /photographer is in the Celestron video from the 2017 total eclipse in Casper, Wyoming, PLEASE post in the comments so proper credit can be given here.
Now to explain WHY...
The reason why I cobbled this together is because I did a thorough search of the interwebs and came up empty for the video I wanted to have. And so instead I decided to do this piecemeal patching of the best parts that I could find.
If you know of a high quality video of the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, please add a link in the comments.
The video with millions of views did not have audio.
It is now set to Francis Scott Key's Star Spangled Banner, composed in the sadness of the minor key.
Visual source (data removed):
StreamTime Live - youtube.com/watch?v=wEkRjlSgIIQ
(2,182,235 views)
Audio sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=wOjV9OrfTkw
Intro - youtube.com/watch?v=cRmSu68t4oQ
Copyright belongs to the owners of the source videos listed above.
The Great American Eclipse YouTube channel added this video, but had no audio to go along with it. It has now been paired here with this song which is a takeoff of the Bill Withers 70s classic 'Just the Two of Us'.
Visual source: youtube.com/watch?v=sOpYoO_SK7o
(268,061 views)
Audio source: www.facebook.com/buckrubpub/videos/epic-song-about-the-total-solar-eclipse-in-nh-by-rik-yeames-nhs-total-solar-ecli/1204483770514449
Copyright belongs to the owners of the two sources listed above.
However, the official video was cluttered with text. This video removes that text, leaving only the imagery with no words. Also, this clip is *LOOPABLE.* So it's easy to extend to any length that you like, accompanying the entire album if you wish.
Source video: youtube.com/watch?v=k9ynZnEBtvw&t=36m59s
Copyright belongs to the owner of the source video listed above. Not me.
However, the official video was cluttered with text. This video removes that text, leaving only the imagery with no words.
Source video: youtube.com/watch?v=k9ynZnEBtvw&t=7m30s
Copyright belongs to the owner of the source video listed above. Not me.
Just Judy's singing and the movie frames. Nothing else.
Moyses P. did not say how he got such a clean audio track. The easiest two guesses are that it is the actual track straight from the studio recording. Or it was extracted using an exceptional AI- Artificial Intelligence voice isolation processing.
Vocal track (Oct 10, 2023 pub) - youtube.com/watch?v=mXAO_rtSLR0
Just two weeks ago, he uploaded an excellent instrumental:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-uOIXMB_A
Again, no mention of where this version came from. Either a studio mix, or an astoundingly clean AI processing algorithm.
The owner of the audio and the visual hold the copyright. I do not own anything here in this video.
Today I decided that the vocals could be showcased even more prominently by silencing all background sounds while Elsa is singing. It is an amazing vocal performance, and can be fully appreciated in this form. So this edit can be thought of as the studio vocal track set to the visual animation, plus a light touch of ambient sounds to fill in the gaps where she isn't singing.
SCRFilms has a link to download the .wav file of Idina Menzel's studio vocal track, found in the video description here:
Studio acapella - youtube.com/watch?v=qbqD2CBeAjk
131,594 views
SCRFilms "No Music" (2022) - youtube.com/watch?v=fLt2mNJ2MHM
For reference, here is...
WalkingTacosDubs "No Music" (2019) - youtube.com/watch?v=sH75twH05rw
12,857,393 views
About an hour ago, the modification of the Walking Tacos Dubs version was uploaded, which is quite similar. You can see that here - youtube.com/watch?v=cdCs07dD91w
Copyright belongs to the owners of the first two source videos listed above. I do not own anything in this upload.
The visual source is here (among dozens of other places):
youtube.com/watch?v=e1OamtIBHpA
...but I've never found a version that is loopable.
In the Whitney Houston video here, the visuals have been tweaked so that it now is loopable (20 seconds, repeated).
Audio sources:
Song as broadcast with The Florida Orchestra - youtube.com/watch?v=KbkWuVUkPmY
Vocal track - youtube.com/watch?v=W0oUrfH0bJA
Flag & pole wind noise - youtube.com/watch?v=01jCUM5eYOE
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owner of the two source videos listed below:
Visual source:
Snazzy Labs vinyl LP cleaning tutorial - youtube.com/watch?v=L2QfjcgDjsY&t=535s
(2,942,485 views)
Audio source:
Mozart Violin Concerto no3 in G Major (K. 216) - youtube.com/watch?v=vM14tPmOV1E&list=OLAK5uy_niFSFWtIL3tDPohxIrtAoNOdxIg2LvY_0&index=10
Paired with a track from one of my favorite classical music albums of all time.
Audio source:
youtube.com/watch?v=n3pZBmdZW_Q
Alternate link (with full concertos playlist) -
youtube.com/watch?v=zz4ENJmvbOQ&list=OLAK5uy_niFSFWtIL3tDPohxIrtAoNOdxIg2LvY_0&index=12
Visual source:
youtube.com/watch?v=L2QfjcgDjsY&t=8m55s
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owners of the videos linked above. Not me.
Future project - Since the source video is 4K, the visuals in the video here can be upgraded to a higher resolution. Someone might want to take that on. It struck me as odd that of all the countless videos here on YouTube, I was not able to find a single one which showed a record spinning. I mean a certain framing, which has a "Visual ASMR" quality to it. Not cluttered by the stylus /needle. Just the grooves spinning endlessly.
- Coca~Cola
- Cherry Cola.
I have never seen the Cherry Cola version in stereo published on the YouTubes. So I made it myself.
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owner of the source videos linked below. I do not own anything here.
Source 1:
The 2020 comic book mv - youtube.com/watch?v=6CzrYXcXweI
(2,262,528 views)
2nd Audio Source:
mono Cherry Cola version - youtube.com/watch?v=UPHmxSTMg5M
It was just a matter of splicing that line into the first source. Another change that was made was the end credits have been removed. Please see the original mv for the full credits.
I don't know why it is so common to do credits that way. The artistic part is the song. And to roll the credits before the song has ended detracts from the listener's experience. At least it does with me. It is a very 20th century way to do credits. Here on the YouTubes, we have things like vid Descriptions to cleanly convey important info. Or ok, embed the credits within the video if you want, but in the 21st century we are not as burdened by time constraints. You can roll the video for a few seconds longer so that the credits don't bombard the viewer until after the song is over. Not a problem.
youtube.com/watch?v=leD0zicGFSU
That is Split The Music's channel. And I expect they used the standard Artificial Intelligence processing to remove Robert Plant's vocals. You can hear that his singing bleeds through for just a moment, as the note he hits is apparently difficult to distinguish from a note played by a musical instrument.
About the visuals in this video:
Plants astounding chemical response to being threatened by insects.
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EDIT (Jan 28, 2023):
This very short video from 2018 is a much better explanation of what this video shows -
youtube.com/watch?v=LeLSyU_iI9o
(168,371 views)
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Anton Petrov's video from yesterday explains it thoroughly here:
Mindblowing Video of Plants Talking to Each Other In Real Time
youtube.com/watch?v=hd-h_y1X4oA
(172,793 views)
This research paper on how plants communicate using Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) is titled:
Green leaf volatile sensory calcium transduction in Arabidopsis (nature.com, published Oct 17, 2023)
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41589-9
Anton's video has links in his description to see the research paper. Scroll to the bottom and that is where these video clips came from. There are 15 of them, and in the video here they flow together in a 2 and a half minute loop, which cycles just over 3 times to fill the length of the classic Led Zeppelin song.
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You are the sunlight in my growing
So little warmth I've felt before
It isn't hard to feel me *glowing*
...
This is the mystery of the quotient
Upon us all a little rain must fall
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...sung by a guy named Plant, no less.
The song cycles through the seasons. Spring, Summer, ... Winter.
"These are the seasons of emotion And like the winds they rise and fall."
Here we can visualize how plants respond when being threatened. This amazing research, as Anton explains, helps to get us closer to the understanding of how plants live their lives, closer to what JRR Tolkien envisioned in his Lord of the Rings /Hobbit books.
COPYRIGHT for the visuals belongs to the owner of the research paper.
Audio copyright belongs to Led Zeppelin.
Here is Jimmy Page way back on April 6, 1957, at the tender young age of 13 telling tv show host Huw Weldon that his goal in life is to become a biological researcher:
youtube.com/watch?v=20zIiUDlVcc&t=2m27s
So this music video works on several levels.
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EDIT (Jan 28, 2023):
This very short video from 2018 is a much better explanation of what this video shows -
youtube.com/watch?v=LeLSyU_iI9o
(168,371 views)
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Anton Petrov's video from yesterday explains the visuals here:
Mindblowing Video of Plants Talking to Each Other In Real Time
youtube.com/watch?v=hd-h_y1X4oA
(172,793 views)
This research paper on how plants communicate using Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) is titled:
Green leaf volatile sensory calcium transduction in Arabidopsis (nature.com, published Oct 17, 2023)
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41589-9
Anton's video has links in his description to see the research paper. Scroll to the bottom and that is where these video clips came from. There are 15 of them, and in the video here they flow together in a 2 and a half minute loop, which cycles just over 3 times to fill the length of the classic Led Zeppelin song.
~~~~~~
You are the sunlight in my growing
So little warmth I've felt before
It isn't hard to feel me *glowing*
...
This is the mystery of the quotient
Upon us all a little rain must fall
~~~~~~
...sung by a guy named Plant, no less.
The song cycles through the seasons. Spring, Summer, ... Winter.
"These are the seasons of emotion And like the winds they rise and fall."
Here we can visualize how plants respond when being threatened. This amazing research, as Anton explains, helps to get us closer to the understanding of how plants live their lives, closer to what JRR Tolkien envisioned in his Lord of the Rings /Hobbit books.
COPYRIGHT for the visuals belongs to the owner of the research paper.
Audio copyright belongs to Led Zeppelin.
Here is Jimmy Page way back on April 6, 1957, at the tender young age of 13 telling tv show host Huw Weldon that his goal in life is to become a biological researcher:
youtube.com/watch?v=20zIiUDlVcc&t=2m27s
So this music video works on several levels.
This upload has the BEST QUALITY audio of this music video on the internet.
You can find the viral uploads here...
youtube.com/watch?v=A1L2xODZSI4
354,485 views
youtube.com/watch?v=1e1eLe1ihT0
142,382 views
...but both of those have the VHS audio.
The source audio used here is from this much better quality recording:
youtube.com/watch?v=GGGPuCLw2d8&list=OLAK5uy_mfrITysrshySYh87tmRC8RkVFZeypioTQ
And this mv audio is even an improvement on that, because two glitches within the first 11 seconds have now been removed.
Those other two music video uploads cut off the very beginning and also the end fadeout of the audio track. That has now been restored here, with the mv extended a few seconds so that the full track now fits. To get the tempo to match the visuals, the source audio has been slowed very slightly (-0.080%).
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owner of this Cernettes music video. I own nothing here.
So this is the best that the audio is being presented, as of 2024, as far as I know. A comment over on the official channel's mv says this about the visuals:
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@cernettes
3 years ago
We filmed it in Hi-8 and it was edited on CERN's Betacam studio. Unfortunately the original master went lost, so this comes from a VHS copy. :(
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Their album was released on September 15, 1992. The visuals were also recorded in 1992, according to a post over on the Cernettes mv page (my understanding is that Silvano de Gennaro runs the Cernettes YouTube channel, so this info appears to be coming from him).
This was back in the days when pagers were a thing...
"You say you love me but you never beep me."
The Cernettes:
- Angela Higney
- Colette Marx-Neilsen
- Lynn Veronneau
- Michele de Gennaro
and Silvano de Gennaro
More Silvano here: youtube.com/watch?v=p-7xnyP2yK0
If you know the names of the other performers in this video, please post in the comments, and I will add them to the credits here.
Django Manglunki seems to have been involved, based on his comments over on the official mv.
youtube.com/@prettybluefox
1:24 - The famous Cray-1 XMP supercomputers, by Seymour Cray.
He made the world’s fastest computers of the 1970s.
Curiously, the phones in our pockets are much more powerful than this today.
This is a somewhat historical song, because it was written, as the story goes, by Silvano de Gennaro at the time when, just down the hall, Tim Berners-Lee was creating the World Wide Web. It is even said that the album cover featuring the Cernettes was the very first photo published on the World Wide Web. That's how the story gets told. But it would probably be more accurate to say:
The album cover of Les Horribles Cernettes was the first non-technical photo to be published on the World Wide Web. (Another version of the story says it is the first image to be _clicked on_ on the web.)
Here's the comment posted over on the Cernettes mv:
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We had 20 minutes to shoot the first scene in the LEP tunnel. LEP (Large Electron Positron) was the predecessor of the LHC, and the largest accelerator at CERN. We had to install lights, video, sound system etc., plus shoot the clip in 20 min. before they restarted the positron beam and disintegrated us! Risky business being a singer at CERN.
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Les Horribles Cernettes live in concert, LHC Fest:
youtube.com/watch?v=YzfogqcB2fA&t=46m40s
At the European Researchers' Night in the Globe:
youtube.com/watch?v=4ZP17RMvV-A
Hardronic '17: youtube.com/watch?v=VpXWLgPtptk&t=36m40s
" " Livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=u7ds0-SOIYo&t=36m40s
Howie Day - Collide
youtube.com/watch?v=1YB0xM9cgr8&list=PL82689759C2ECBE13
Instrumental+Vocals
The first version, Dirty Disco +Vocals, is here: youtu.be/XAIJDy4kzgk
This mv is set to a very old eyetrip visual of a woman dancing. This was titled:
Visuals: FormDance, directed by Rick Robin.
vimeo.com/35341495
rickrobin@gmail.com
He originally uploaded this on Nov 2, 2008.
It was the second of this style of video.
(His first version, FormDance#01, published on Aug 23, 2008, was stamped with an obnoxious watermark, and is not usable.)
Audio sources:
Vocals - youtube.com/watch?v=tAZpcZnAZn0&list=OLAK5uy_lNElL-KWKqo_xpamf2Zv_maqVOU29UZq0
Dirty Disco Edit - youtube.com/watch?v=rVGcamIgT3w&list=OLAK5uy_lNElL-KWKqo_xpamf2Zv_maqVOU29UZq0&index=2&pp=8AUB
All that needed to be done to pair these two audio tracks was to sync the singing to the instrumental. Very simple. So it is a headscratcher as to why Desire never did this themselves. Not that I've been able to find.
Copyright belongs to the owner of the two audio tracks and also the owner of the visuals, who I expect is Rick Robin.
If anyone knows who the dancer is here, please post in the comments, and her name will be added in the credits here.
Dirty Disco +Vocals
The instrumental+Vocals version is here: youtu.be/6BJWdXxLhOU
This mv is set to a very old eyetrip visual of a woman dancing. This was titled:
Visuals: FormDance, directed by Rick Robin.
vimeo.com/35341495
rickrobin@gmail.com
He originally uploaded this on Nov 2, 2008.
It was the second of this style of video.
(His first version, FormDance#01, published on Aug 23, 2008, was stamped with an obnoxious watermark, and is not usable.)
Audio sources:
Vocals - youtube.com/watch?v=tAZpcZnAZn0&list=OLAK5uy_lNElL-KWKqo_xpamf2Zv_maqVOU29UZq0
Dirty Disco Edit - youtube.com/watch?v=rVGcamIgT3w&list=OLAK5uy_lNElL-KWKqo_xpamf2Zv_maqVOU29UZq0&index=2&pp=8AUB
All that needed to be done to pair these two audio tracks was to sync the singing to the instrumental. Very simple. So it is a headscratcher as to why Desire never did this themselves. Not that I've been able to find.
Copyright belongs to the owner of the two audio tracks and also the owner of the visuals, who I expect is Rick Robin.
If anyone knows who the dancer is here, please post in the comments, and her name will be added in the credits here.
Age restricted for a few seconds in the middle that are pushing a PG rating.
The song is the big 80s hit Turning Japanese by The Vapors.
These exact same visuals have also been set to Kirstin Dunst's cover of this song, here:
youtu.be/ZdKNDnrVXMI
Two source videos were used here. The latter half is from Kleiner Pixel's makeup tutorial, here: youtube.com/watch?v=RIkA1J_D2ko
The beginning half is a video that has, um, let's say it has more emphasis on swordplay.
Copyright belongs to the owners of these two videos, along with the owner of the audio. I don't own anything here.
I think it is a beautiful costume. And the character has some deep aspects to her. I have no experience with the game. But maybe some day I will give it a try. Perhaps it will be turned into a live action movie.
Age restricted for a few seconds in the middle that are pushing a PG rating.
The song is Kirsten Dunst's cover of the 80s classic hit by The Vapors, featured in her video titled Akihabara Majokko Princess, released on October 1st, 2009. I think it is an excellent cover, so great job to Kirsten. But the recording quality is something I have long hoped would be re-released in a clean version, without the distorted studio mess. Maybe some day that will see the light of day. If it exists. Or maybe someday AI will get smart enough so that the bots will be able to clean it up.
These exact same visuals have also been set to original Vapors song, here:
youtu.be/TvBvTdJD20s
Two source videos were used here. The latter half is from Kleiner Pixel's makeup tutorial, here: youtube.com/watch?v=RIkA1J_D2ko
The beginning half is a video that has, um, let's say it has more emphasis on swordplay.
Copyright belongs to the owners of these two videos, along with the owner of the audio. I don't own anything here.
I think it is a beautiful costume. And the character has some deep aspects to her. I have no experience with the game. But maybe some day I will give it a try. Perhaps it will be turned into a live action movie.
This is hardly the smoothest patch. But good enough for the purpose I was going for. I put the full song to the Black Sabbath music video, but it immediately got clobbered by YouTube's copyright system. Should that block ever get lifted, you'll be able to view that here:
youtube.com/watch?v=dFPr51ydL3g
Until such time, you get to see this still photo of Half-Life guitarist Randy Garrard.
Copyright belongs to the owners of the two source songs.
And also the still photo.
All I did here was a crude mixing.
Source1 - youtube.com/watch?v=EgMKXWrp-p4
If you enjoy her work, her channel at her music video (w/lyrics) here:
youtube.com/watch?v=PHKByzwxfMc
Published on Sep 29, 2019
(at 9,929 views)
She linked to this instrumental: youtube.com/watch?v=qNcV6dOpkfw
I expect she owns the copyright to her audio. You can find more from her at her website here, along with her email address:
logannedigma.com
LoganneDigmaVO@yahoo.com
The visuals were generated by me, using a silhouette photo by Lari Heikkilä,
taken on Nov 14, 2010, published to flickr on Dec 1st.
The photographer did not identify who this model is.
If you know who this is, please let us know in the comments.
The source photo is here:
www.flickr.com/photos/wudu/5224569426
She has All Rights Reserved, so regardless of my heavy modifications, whatever money might be generated from those who enjoy this video will go to her, split with Loganne. And also with the owner of the songwriting credits, as is the standard with works that are covered here on YouTube.
I have never monetized any of my videos, in spite of them getting many millions of views in total, across all of my channels.
The genesis of this music video was Lari's photo. Poking around the webs, I happened across it yesterday. It struck me as quite unusual. And I decided to build from there. I had never heard of this song before today, nor the singer. I just searched for a song that seemed to fit well with the unusual photo.
This song feels to me like it belongs in a Disney movie.
It is about a loss that hits so hard that it flattens you into a one-dimensional shadow of your full self. Yet it is not a total tragedy. The song ends with some sense of hope.
Here are the lyrics:
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I'm tired of waking up in tears
'Cause I can't put to bed these phobias and fears
I'm new to this grief I can't explain
But I'm no stranger to the heartache and the pain
The fire I began is burning me alive
But I know better than to leave and let it die
I'm a silhouette, asking every now and then
Is it over yet? Will I ever feel again?
I'm a silhouette, chasing rainbows on my own
But the more I try to move on, the more I feel alone
So I watch the summer stars to lead me home
I'm sick of the past I can't erase
A jumble of footprints and hasty steps I can't retrace
The mountains of things I still regret
Is a vile reminder that I would rather just forget
(No matter where I go)
The fire I began, is burning me alive
But I know better than to leave and let it die
I'm a silhouette, asking every now and then
Is it over yet? Will I ever smile again?
I'm a silhouette, chasing rainbows on my own
But the more I try to move on, the more I feel alone
So I watch the summer stars to lead me home
'Cause I walk alone (no matter where I go)
'Cause I walk alone (no matter where I go)
'Cause I walk alone
I'm a silhouette, asking every now and then
Is it over yet? Will I ever love again?
I'm a silhouette, chasing rainbows on my own
But the more I try to move on, the more I feel alone
So I watch the summer stars to lead me home
So I watch the summer stars to lead me home
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Copyright belongs to him.
(Unless he sold it off to someone.)
I own nothing here. If you like what he does,
you can find more over at his website:
www.bobbyyang.com
The best resolution presented back then was: 320x240p at 12 frames per second.
The original Shockwave Flash file is here (REPLACE the colons) -
httpsː//web.archive.org/web/20040614112514oe_/httpsː//www.bobbyyang.com/video/750kbps.swf
If Bobby recorded this prior to 2004, then we have passed the 20th anniversary. We are now well into the 2020s. Eddie is no longer with us. And no one has done anything to improve the quality of this historic video from the early days of the internet, pre-YouTube. No one posted it even as a memorial tribute. Or if it is out there, I haven't been able to find it. So I did it myself.
This is my 1st effort using AI video enhancement. The results are NOT satisfying. Resolution has been maximally pumped up from low resolution all the way up to 4K, and the framerate has been doubled. While each frame, for the most part, looks to be extremely well rendered, the online Artificial Intelligence processing that I used CHOKED on the framerate at many points throughout this video.
This is a First Effort.
I hope that someone with better software will give this the attention it needs. With the software I have, I could do a manual interpolation of each glitched frame. But that would be a foolish effort as it would be so much easier to just run it through an AI that can handle this properly.
The audio has been thickened here. The left channel is his original music video (with intro & outro pulses removed), and the right channel is his album version, but offset by ~0.034 seconds, which creates an echo effect.
Copyright belongs to the Aram Bedrosian channel. I own nothing here.
You can visit his site and help support him here: arambedrosian.com
Sources:
(L) Music video: youtube.com/watch?v=joh4rzVk6uY
(R) Album track: youtube.com/watch?v=xXFqmm8565A
'Like the Deserts Miss the Rain'. Set to Midnight Train, 'Train de Nuit'.
Copyright belongs to the owners of the sources listed below...
Audio sources:
youtube.com/watch?v=Vg3EUK0dIxQ
Thunder SFX
Visual sources:
40th anniversary short - youtube.com/watch?v=6ljQDJ4EILc
Train tracks (Chanel advertisement campaign) - vimeo.com/9406979
Thunderclouds (Anastasia's Diaries, @AStacy_G) - youtube.com/watch?v=DM2S3hJQCgE
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Before_Chanel
Vocals (tempo slowed by 16% as first pairing adjustment)
youtube.com/watch?v=evYjJYjIupg
Guitar (pitched up a whole step)
youtube.com/watch?v=U_wZMtur4cQ
Visual source
vimeo.com/429924482
Copyright belongs to the owners of the audio and visual sources listed above.
Vocals (tempo slowed by 16% as first pairing adjustment)
youtube.com/watch?v=evYjJYjIupg
Guitar (pitched up a whole step)
youtube.com/watch?v=U_wZMtur4cQ
Visual source
youtube.com/watch?v=OLHxxBTl71I
Copyright belongs to the owners of the source audio and visual tracks listed above.
A small difference, but for me makes a major impact in enjoyment of this rendition in covering the song made famous by Judy Collins. Featuring Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, and winning the Oscar for Best Picture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_Sides,_Now#Notable_recordings
Charli XCX did a demo for the Barbie movie which is a cover of Aqua's classic 'Barbie Girl'. This was leaked one month ago, on October 14th. And this edit here is my effort to do an extended version to now be passable as a full-length song. Of course, the ideal will be for us to get a release of her full-length demo. But for the time being, this edit here looks to be the best thing available on the interwebs, as of Nov 2023.
Copyright belongs to the owners of the sources listed below...
Audio sources:
- Leaked Charli XCX demo from the Barbie movie, youtube.com/watch?v=DjljuaX4MJ8
- "Full Remake Concept", edit by airtøn, youtube.com/watch?v=bDHIMxgDgQY
- Speed Drive intro clip (from the Barbie movie OST),
- Vinyl needle sfx clip.
Visual sources:
- Intro vintage Barbie toy record player clip, youtube.com/watch?v=Sq35f_MeKx0
- Still photo of 5 Barbie dolls, by Gabriela Amezcua ('GabitAmezcua', 'gabitazeppelin').*
- Roblox 'Girls World' mv, youtube.com/watch?v=BbWV2acaMck
(10,489,182 views at time of upload)
* - Gabriela's Barbie doll photo was downloaded sometime around 2010 from her 'gabitazeppelin' Flickr site. She has since made an entire batch of her doll pics no longer publicly available. Including this one used here. Though her site still has excellent creative photos. I recommend having a look. Even if you're not into Barbie, she is an amazingly creative photographer. Her photographs are inspirational.
Just cut&paste this link:
www.flickr.com/photos/gabitazeppelin/3945842175
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to Flowering Garden Timelapse (Jamie Scott NatGeo short).
Audio sources:
Vocal Isolation (processed by Noble Vocals) - youtube.com/watch?v=DcMcyna_RyM
Piano by White Admiral (heavily edited) - youtube.com/watch?v=ifx2TueUT2c
Visual source:
Flower timelapse - youtube.com/watch?v=m6Uw2DJ9Md8
vimeo.com/873619157
...but they uploaded it with no sound for some reason. Atmospheric audio has now been added.
www.theboxfilms.com/works/postcard-from-earth.html
They own the copyright. I own nothing here.
Throw 'I love you' echoes down the canyon
That's the situation in Denver. This song is about venturing out, and then something comes back. Just like his voice and the echo return. Pure poetry.
This live performance is available several places here on YouTube, but all have a glitch at the 3m15s point. This edit has repaired that glitch.
This is the source for the audio and video:
youtube.com/watch?v=bOeZPA97Sc4&t=3m13s
Copyright belongs to the owner of the source video listed above.
A second edit was done here. The audience applause at the end is cut off abruptly. So for this upload, the ending of a different Midnight Special video was patched to give a smoother fade out of the clapping (here: v=eIbR_scyG70).
By the way, Dave Loggins and Kenny Loggins are cousins.
It would be excellent to have a video of the two of them performing together.
There are those who say that this is a romantic song. But this is actually the opposite of romantic. Neither cares enough about the other to let go of whatever they've got going on to be together.
Side note: Together ToGetHer.
I was in the second or third grade when that word struck me as having this embedded meaning.
To-Get-Her.
Alas, he never gets her. She never gets him.
For this to be a romantic song, one must imagine that there is another unsung verse where they... or at least one of them, checks their priorities, and goes to be with this person they love.
As written, and as sung, this is a heartache song.
The original was uploaded in 2011.
youtube.com/watch?v=UjKqBarZVaY
It is at 487,811 views.
A dozen years later, still at 240p. Why?
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Copyright belongs to the owner of the vid at the original link above.
I did add the scanner intro/outro thing.
Audio THANKS to FreeSoundFXs, here:
youtube.com/watch?v=myaOpFhX_1g
7.1Mviews at the original Twitter post:
twitter.com/metoffice/status/1562760070617714688
Audio has been added in this edit, with the visuals looped 11 times to fit the song length.
youtube.com/watch?v=ECgyY7dM_Ms
Credit goes to Datta Bhadale for pairing this audio to the visuals:
youtube.com/watch?v=N7bMntJI7Ks
All that's been done by me here is to extend it so that it fits the full song.
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owner of the timelapse posted by Met Office Gibraltar.
The audio track '(FREE) Lo-fi Type Beat - Rain Vibes' belongs to
Bloc Records, Tunisia© 2021 (GhostProd) @HayderOnTheBeat
hayder42gang@gmail.com
You can support the musician by purchasing their music here:
amazon.com/s?k=Hayder+On+The+Beat&i=digital-music
Last Thursday, March 23rd, on the 118 Ronald Reagan Freeway in Chatsworth, California which looks to be heading eastbound at the De Soto Ave exit, captured by the dashcam of Anoop Khatra driving in a Tesla behind this mess, damaging the Tesla too.
Everyone involved walked away from this crash. CHP said the woman driving the Kia declined to go to the hospital. You can see that report here:
youtube.com/watch?v=GR-hLAi7m4o
COPYRIGHT belongs to whoever has the rights to Anoop Khatra's dashcam clip. Also the rights to the Cascada audio track.
Audio source: youtube.com/watch?v=8KTQJrZozqo
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owner of that source audio.
Copyright belongs to the owner of the 1981 movie Heavy Metal and the owner of the song. All I did was edit this together.
My edit here is very similar to this one done by Mad Buddha five years ago:
youtube.com/watch?v=2Mp8AudqJAw
Me and Mad Buddha are far from the first ones to do edits of this song to this movie. But for whatever reason, I don't see any decent videos in 1080p. So that was my motivation to do this version.
Visual Source:
The full movie is available for download here-
archive.org/download/heavy-metal-1981-1080p-esp
The 1080p .mkv file is a whopping 9,301,212 KB. It can readily be compressed to 1Gb with no discernible loss in quality.
Audio Source:
youtube.com/watch?v=DL-HvfVwZKM
Before and after drone footage shows extent of devastation in quakes-hit Turkey
youtube.com/watch?v=GJDjEEvxi0E
Added-
Agnus Dei, by the Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir (comp Samuel Barber)
youtube.com/watch?v=2FJUyqrojvI
"It is the deadliest natural disaster in Turkey's modern history."
"Casualties ˃ 47,840 deaths, 122,500 injured"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_earthquake
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351,713 views Feb 17, 2023 KAHRAMANMARAŞ
Drone footage of Hatay province in southern Turkey and the city of Kahramanmaraş has revealed the extent of devastation from the two powerful earthquakes that struck the country last week.
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Thousands of buildings in the region collapsed. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 quakes were centered in Kahramanmaraş and struck 10 other provinces – Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Hatay, Gaziantep, Malatya, Kilis, Osmaniye, Elâzığ and Şanlıurfa.
More than 13 million people have been affected by the devastating quakes. Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck Turkey in the space of less than 10 hours.
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Newton's Cradle with Explanation
youtube.com/watch?v=8-vZJPGj8ss&t=4m3s
4,465 views
Gangnam Style - Newton's Cradle
youtube.com/watch?v=YB7KUGdP7wI
11,258,915 views
Chua Kah Hean owns the copyright to this video.
I own nothing here.
The ideal version I was wanting would be a very clean sound with the steel balls clacking, and going through a variety of moves, including the fancier ones like is shown in his Gangnam Style video. 4K resolution would be good too. I'll keep looking. It's a very simple concept. There are countless ASMR channels here who could do this. And maybe they already have.
If I can't find it anywhere, then I always have the option to buy one of these things and make it myself.
youtube.com/watch?v=3ndd9fcaUP8
Audio source:
youtube.com/watch?v=0hG-2tQtdlE
Many have covered the iconic 1981 Christmas song by The Waitresses. There aren't many I've found that strike me, personally, to be an improvement. However, Kidz Bop did a cute cover which brings a childish sense of innocence to the song. So yay, I found one which I like.
The next step was to find some visuals which would make for a nice pairing. This too proved to be quite a challenge. And then I happened across these TikTok videos by Alta Tabar in Park City, Utah. She was a couple years past childhood. Born in early 2002, she is now into her 20s. But as you can see from her video clips, she has maintained an amazing sense of childlike joy for life.
Now I myself hate TikTok. In general, I guess I should say. And I also cringe at the 9-by-16 tall video format, which has become so popular with the youth today, of course because it is the easiest way to hold your phone. But Alta Tabar's vibe fits so perfectly with this song that I am making an exception to upload my first ...and hopefully last, 9x16 video. And she did many of her dance clips when it was snowing outside. So perfect.
For more of Alta Sweet Tabar, you can sub to her yt channel:
youtube.com/user/tripplethreat01/shorts
Visual source is here - youtube.com/watch?v=w9ophhiCJjs
...with this Christmas clip added at the end - youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0IQD4xoIQ
Audio source is here - youtube.com/watch?v=VJff83qBIYI
Copyright belongs to the owners of these three videos listed above.
It appears that whoever is running the 'Just for You' viral media YouTube channel deserves credit for splicing together that TikTok compilation. I did not see ones that I wanted to delete so that the visual length ran for just the song's length, so instead I just looped the song twice. Well, that's also the lazy approach. But I like the result.
Message to Alta:
If you'd like to rehost this to your platform, please do.
Or if you want me to take this down for any reason,
just let me know. But I hope you like it.
This remix is my first effort at using the LFO 360° pan.
180° out of phase. Cycling at 0.1 Hz, spinning around your head 6 times a minute.
That's Amy Lee's 2003 vocals from Fallen, opposed by her 2017 re-recording from Synthesis. Because both tracks cycle at the same rate, this mix remains 'in balance' throughout the entire song. If you are curious as to what an out of balance mix sounds like, you can check that out here: youtu.be/Ysonba-gnkA
The color shifts as the vocals pan around you.
When it transitions to Blue tint, L=Fallen / R=Synthesis
When it shifts to Yellowish tint, L=Synthesis / R=Fallen
See this mix for the details on the sources used: youtube.com/watch?v=IVEHbiNSV20
COPYRIGHT belongs to the owners of the sources linked over there.
If you want to play around with your own LFO Panning mix, you can just download that 'Hard Split' audio track (linked above) as an mp3 file, open it up in Audacity, and use the plugin (linked below). All freeware.
Goofy. But fun.
For this Low Frequency Oscillator Pan Mix here, the Audacity plugin I chose to use is the Nyquist effect 'Panning (LFO).ny' scripted by David R. Sky, www.shellworld.net/~davidsky
wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Effect_Plug-ins#Panning_.28LFO.29
There are fancier plugins available for free, such as:
en-in.sennheiser.com/ambeo-orbit
...but I knew that the simple script would do what I was wanting.
Let's be clear that '8D' is a marketing gimmick.
We don't even hear in 3D. We only have two ears, so the best we can hear is in stereo. Well I should reconsider what I said about 3D, because TIME is a dimension. So ok, we hear in 3D. All sound happens in time, so 'stereo' inherently means L&R over some time period.
So why has this bogus term '8D' become so popular? With many people going so far as to claim '16D', and even '32D'?! The clear answer boils down to one word: Hype.
The youtubes are the Wild West of the 21st Century, and there has been no effective regulation against Snake Oil sales. Not yet. Perhaps not ever. So we must go back to the baseline adage of:
CAVEAT EMPTOR
Buyer Beware. Or in the case of YouTube viewers, in the land of clickbait, Viewer Beware. It is necessary for us to exercise discernment in what we choose to click on. Now this raises the obvious question:
Am I not guilty myself, because I have opted to title this as an '8D' video?!
Well, perhaps yes. But here's how I have justified it:
If you look at the thumbnail, you can see how the 8D logo has been rotated by 90 degrees.
This has been done in hopes that EVERYONE, eventually, will come to see 8D as just a Smileyface Emoji. That this stereo-panning technique that most everyone refers to as '8D' is this goofy fad that is fun to play with and can put a smile on your face.
Or more cynically, 8D can be seen as the proper reaction that those who understand physics and psychoacoustics would have whenever they see this term. It is laughable to call it 'Eight Dimensional'. We can be glad that Marching Bands don't market themselves as "200+ Dimensional Audio", because that's how many instruments they have moving around. Utter nonsense.
Copyright belongs to the owner of the song and music video.
I do not own anything here. I just did a simple edit.
QHD mv source: vimeo.com/748566914
Audio patch: youtube.com/watch?v=FO_ZO7fDfhU
Now there already had been plenty of versions available:
Demo – 05:20
Origin version – 04:26
Mystary EP version – 04:40
Fallen version – 04:24
Band version – 04:33
Band version / No Strings – 04:33
Band version / Guitars Down – 04:33
Synthesis version – 04:25
So now one more has been added, with this fanmade edit.
...except that there's this curious thing about the Synthesis re-recording in 2017, a full 14 years after the first released version with Fallen in 2003. Amy Lee sang it spot on. So other remixes were done by combining the 2003 vocals with her 2017 version, synchronized to match up. You can check those out here:
- Direct overlay of Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/DQmlnrco-J0
- Slightly split by 30% L-R: youtu.be/b0kLphaazbM
- Wider split of 60% L-R: youtu.be/WA6Hl1MQTTk
- Hard split of 100% L-R: youtu.be/IVEHbiNSV20
- Hybrid overlay of Fallen transitioning to Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/olNG68EJk8c
"8D":
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (180° split): youtu.be/srLF7Ld869c
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (variable phase): youtu.be/Ysonba-gnkA
The section with the band (3:03 thru 3:49) has been removed, in both audio and visuals.
Other mixes done:
- Direct overlay of Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/DQmlnrco-J0
- Narrower stereo split of 30% L-R: youtu.be/b0kLphaazbM
- Wider split of 60% L-R: youtu.be/WA6Hl1MQTTk
- Hybrid overlay of Fallen transitioning to Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/olNG68EJk8c
- Normal Fallen only, with the band removed: youtu.be/T1_nYRoT-Jg
"8D":
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (180° split): youtu.be/srLF7Ld869c
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (variable phase): youtu.be/Ysonba-gnkA
Copyright belongs to the owner of the music video and the audio from 2003 and 2017.
Sources -
QHD Fallen mv source: vimeo.com/748566914
Synthesis vocals: youtube.com/watch?v=3wSvSDwTyhA
Audio patch1: youtube.com/watch?v=FO_ZO7fDfhU
Audio patch2: youtube.com/watch?v=tHDmsRb1AlU
Audio patch3: youtube.com/watch?v=A2k2dwtu6QI
The section with the band (3:03 thru 3:49) has been removed, in both audio and visuals.
Other mixes done:
- Stereo split of 30% L-R: youtu.be/b0kLphaazbM
- Wider split of 60% L-R: youtu.be/WA6Hl1MQTTk
- Hard split of 100% L-R: youtu.be/IVEHbiNSV20
- Hybrid overlay of Fallen transitioning to Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/olNG68EJk8c
- Normal Fallen only, with the band removed: youtu.be/T1_nYRoT-Jg
"8D":
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (180° split): youtu.be/srLF7Ld869c
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (variable phase): youtu.be/Ysonba-gnkA
Copyright belongs to the owner of the music video and the audio from 2003 and 2017.
Sources -
QHD Fallen mv source: vimeo.com/748566914
Synthesis vocals: youtube.com/watch?v=3wSvSDwTyhA
Audio patch: youtube.com/watch?v=FO_ZO7fDfhU
The section with the band (3:03 thru 3:49) has been removed, in both audio and visuals.
Other mixes done:
- Direct overlay of Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/DQmlnrco-J0
- Wider split of 60% L-R: youtu.be/WA6Hl1MQTTk
- Hard split of 100% L-R: youtu.be/IVEHbiNSV20
- Hybrid overlay of Fallen transitioning to Fallen × Synthesis: youtu.be/olNG68EJk8c
- Normal Fallen only, with the band removed: youtu.be/T1_nYRoT-Jg
"8D":
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (180° split): youtu.be/srLF7Ld869c
- Fallen × Synthesis, 360° pan (variable phase): youtu.be/Ysonba-gnkA
Copyright belongs to the owner of the music video and the audio from 2003 and 2017.
Sources -
QHD Fallen mv source: vimeo.com/748566914
Synthesis vocals: youtube.com/watch?v=3wSvSDwTyhA
Audio patch1: youtube.com/watch?v=FO_ZO7fDfhU
Audio patch2: youtube.com/watch?v=tHDmsRb1AlU
Audio patch3: youtube.com/watch?v=A2k2dwtu6QI
Visual source: youtube.com/watch?v=zxevS0ZJKSw
Audio source: youtube.com/watch?v=p9wkV2n5BPU
Copyright belongs to the owners of the two source videos listed above.
Visual source, uploaded by MMXL5 - youtube.com/watch?v=KIK_0hJNYew
Audio source - youtube.com/watch?v=32OSn3iNw9A
Copyright belongs to the owners of those two source videos listed above.


