Very creative COB cover videos!! [YouTube] - Page 3

inhe · January 31st, 2009, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by <Arcane>

I've already said that you shouldn't take it so serious, fuck!
And I've already said that I don't give a fuck what people like Mystique, Muffin, you or most of the user here think about me - I don't know you so I don't care.
But only for you: I HAVE NEVER SAID ANYTHING NEGATIV ABOUT HIS VIDS! Are you all blind?!?
End of fucking story.

wow

<Arcane> · January 31st, 2009, 12:07 PM

No, that's just another reason why I don't.
I just had to say something about it to clear my point

P4T0U · January 31st, 2009, 02:31 PM

and It's even in HD!

add &fmt=22 at the end of the URL to 720p-ize it.

example:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_rfyjfk0v4&fmt=22...

eveningninja · January 31st, 2009, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by <Arcane>

I've already said that you shouldn't take it so serious, fuck!
And I've already said that I don't give a fuck what people like Mystique, Muffin, you or most of the user here think about me - I don't know you so I don't care.
But only for you: I HAVE NEVER SAID ANYTHING NEGATIV ABOUT HIS VIDS! Are you all blind?!?
End of fucking story.

If you don't give a fuck what anyone thinks, then why are you getting so pissed? That would be called giving a fuck. You're the one getting serious and blowing this up.

<Arcane> · January 31st, 2009, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by eveningninja

If you don't give a fuck what anyone thinks, then why are you getting so pissed? That would be called giving a fuck. You're the one getting serious and blowing this up.

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Originally Posted by >Noel<

You should follow your own advice dude, your covers are great too I don't get why you are so pissed off.

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Originally Posted by <Arcane>

I'm pissed off of most of the users here wihch are "...you're all pussys and moralizer. you try to avoid to say any wrong word, try to be much-loved by every person, you are stuffy and norrow-minded and most of you are bumsucker."
and that people trying to tell me I'm this, this and this and taking things to serious

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Originally Posted by Arcane

End of fucking story.

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Mystique1721 · January 31st, 2009, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by P4T0U

and It's even in HD!

add &fmt=22 at the end of the URL to 720p-ize it.

example: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_rfyjfk0v4&fmt=22

you know...I just had a thought...if this guy had entered the Blooddrunk solo contest and made his video like this (and practiced the solo a lot) he probably would've won.

P4T0U · February 1st, 2009, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Mystique1721

you know...I just had a thought...if this guy had entered the Blooddrunk solo contest and made his video like this (and practiced the solo a lot) he probably would've won.

I lol'd @ "and practiced the solo a lot". I'm pretty sure he would have....but mabye not because he's not as popular as redSG. I wonder if anyone didn't have a clue for who to vote before entering the site...

eveningninja · February 1st, 2009, 05:33 PM

Oh sweet I didn't know he won the 'popular vote.' Makes sense; I actually met and talked to him at the San Diego Gigantour last year

He's a pretty cool dude.

P4T0U · February 1st, 2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by eveningninja

Oh sweet I didn't know he won the 'popular vote.' Makes sense; I actually met and talked to him at the San Diego Gigantour last year

He's a pretty cool dude.

oh I never said he won.

TheSleepingDrummer · February 2nd, 2009, 03:11 AM

Woah, Sweet as.

R34p3r · February 2nd, 2009, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSleepingDrummer

Woah, Sweet as.

downunder?^^

johnharvey1 · February 16th, 2009, 12:16 AM

Cool, since 'Warheart' has posted my videos on here, I've decided to join up to the forum.
Interesting comments I must say, some good and some bad. I must say these cover's do take a long time to make,
so this kind of feedback is good. I understand some of peoples thoughts on the video's as well. These videos aren't all about
the song cover itself, I try to appeal to a wider audience by designing extra elements and characteristics to it, so you could say even non musicians
could enjoy the video's, so it depends how you look at it. On these video's I feel some either have stronger musical playing than design effects, or vise versa,
or both concepts are about the same. I'm suprised with the lack of interest in covers such as the Bodom Beach terror one, as I felt this one was one of my strongest and with the
most effects, but maybe you find the others more appealing or better designed. Once again depends on the viewer.

I'm hoping to play at least one song from each COB album. I mainly base the design of the videos off the cover of the album I'm playing the song off. At the moment I'm thinking of
doing a track off Something Wild, mainly because the album art seems easier to make up design ideas from. But if anyone on this forum, has any song cover or design ideas I could use in the
video that would be really helpful, preferable for Something Wild or Are you Dead yet. I don't just do these videos totally for fun, I also study graphic design, so these videos help improve my skills and knowledge on how to use these programs i.e 'Adobe After Effects', 'Photoshop'. Anyway, long message, but thought I should mention this.

Undefined · February 16th, 2009, 12:22 AM

How long did it take? How much work was involved? And did it pay off? (If so, how!)

johnharvey1 · February 16th, 2009, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Undefined

How long did it take? How much work was involved? And did it pay off? (If so, how!)

I did it over a period of two weeks, doing 2-3 hours a day, some day's longer, depending were I'm up to.
Half the time was learning the song and the other half was recording and putting it together through the design programs. The recording of myself playing the song took a while as I have to set up my home made green screen, to allow me to cut out the backdrop on the program, then i have to position the lighting correctly to prevent rough backgrounds on Adobe After Effects. Also playing with a grim reaper outfit on also made it hard to play, as the material dropped and muted the fret board occasionally, so I had to do a few takes with the cover. The actual day I recorded the Kissing the Shadows cover, we were having a heat wave here in Sydney and it was 35 degrees, but it was the only time I had to record, so I was melting in that costume, so if I look tired that's the reason.
In general it's just such a long process, but I enjoy it most of the time, and coming up with background effects is really fun. If you just do little bit's over a period of time, it's suprising how much it builds up.

I think overall, it pays off, I mean I'm improving my skills for my graphic design studies and my guitar skills are always growing as well. As long as I'm enjoying it, then yes it always pay's off.

johnharvey1 · June 30th, 2009, 12:19 AM

Hey, made a new COB video lately, check it out here

You Tube

It's also in HD.
It's me playing Children of Bodom by Children of Bodom. I think this a very underrated COB song, but I like it, so I thought I should cover it.
It's been a while since my last video, as I've been away and hard at study. I also visited Scandinavia, which kind of inspired me to make this new video.
I've tried my hardest to improve on my last video and in some ways I think I have.
I've also got some new equipment, so that's helped out. The guitar synth I've used, is the Roland Gr-20. It's a good device and I hope to use it more and more in future videos. Also I ended up getting an Ibanez Rg350dx, it suited my needs and seems a very nice guitar.
If I could complain about anything in this video it would probably just be getting the right synth sounds on Roland Gr-20, getting the audio a bit better, and working a bit harder on the song. But overall with the combined skills of After Effects and my new equipment, I'm pretty happy with this video and I've learnt a lot.

(__Joonas__) · June 30th, 2009, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by johnharvey1

Cool, since 'Warheart' has posted my videos on here, I've decided to join up to the forum.
Interesting comments I must say, some good and some bad. I must say these cover's do take a long time to make,
so this kind of feedback is good. I understand some of peoples thoughts on the video's as well. These videos aren't all about
the song cover itself, I try to appeal to a wider audience by designing extra elements and characteristics to it, so you could say even non musicians
could enjoy the video's, so it depends how you look at it. On these video's I feel some either have stronger musical playing than design effects, or vise versa,
or both concepts are about the same. I'm suprised with the lack of interest in covers such as the Bodom Beach terror one, as I felt this one was one of my strongest and with the
most effects, but maybe you find the others more appealing or better designed. Once again depends on the viewer.

I'm hoping to play at least one song from each COB album. I mainly base the design of the videos off the cover of the album I'm playing the song off. At the moment I'm thinking of
doing a track off Something Wild, mainly because the album art seems easier to make up design ideas from. But if anyone on this forum, has any song cover or design ideas I could use in the
video that would be really helpful, preferable for Something Wild or Are you Dead yet. I don't just do these videos totally for fun, I also study graphic design, so these videos help improve my skills and knowledge on how to use these programs i.e 'Adobe After Effects', 'Photoshop'. Anyway, long message, but thought I should mention this.

You could use the demo of Towards Dead End with the Something Wild artwork? Just an idea. The first three artworks are picture beautiful and I don't see how you could play those kind of effects on the cartoon-like artworks of the later albums. I'd have other ideas for you but I'm thinking about the difficulty of playing around with those HCDR, AYDY and Blooddrunk artworks..

Another idea I have is, you know the artwork for Inearthed's Shining? If you'd cover one of those songs and just google for lakeside sunrise (or whatever) pictures and do your thing, that would be pretty damn unique.

johnharvey1 · June 30th, 2009, 03:51 AM

Hey, thanks for the ideas, it's got me thinking

(__Joonas__) · June 30th, 2009, 04:27 AM

^I've got my hands on Photoshop everyday at work, but it's not so fundamental tool in getting this stuff done so I'm planning on learning things on my own, also for video editing etc, just need to find the time.

There are a couple of amazing songs on the Shining demo and it would give you free hands in doing the graphics. (I'll add you up on msn)

FridgePack · June 30th, 2009, 05:45 AM

Hahaha XD

Good work but i started laughing as soon as alexi & CO where "floating by" in the first video ^^

<Arcane> · June 30th, 2009, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by johnharvey1

Hey, made a new COB video lately, check it out here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb7LXDP59oE

Playing: ok
Tone: bad
Video: awesome

COBHC Rayza · July 6th, 2009, 10:43 AM

I agree with Arcane. The quality of the sound and quality/accuracy/skill of the guitar playing matters more than the video effects. I agree they look cool but I preffer a regular video any day. Get the fuck off of Arcanes back, he was just saying big whoop with the filters, multiple guitars are creative too

eveningninja · July 6th, 2009, 05:48 PM

^ That argument was from a while back; don't you ever read the dates on posts?

January 31st, 2009, 12:07 PM	#52 (permalink)
<Arcane> Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Germany Posts: 3,419	No, that's just another reason why I don't. I just had to say something about it to clear my point __________________ me on YouTube my COB Tabs on Ultimate Guitar

February 2nd, 2009, 03:11 AM	#60 (permalink)
TheSleepingDrummer Senior Reaper Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lake Bodom Posts: 492	Woah, Sweet as.

February 16th, 2009, 12:16 AM	#62 (permalink)
johnharvey1 Metal Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 46	Cool, since 'Warheart' has posted my videos on here, I've decided to join up to the forum. Interesting comments I must say, some good and some bad. I must say these cover's do take a long time to make, so this kind of feedback is good. I understand some of peoples thoughts on the video's as well. These videos aren't all about the song cover itself, I try to appeal to a wider audience by designing extra elements and characteristics to it, so you could say even non musicians could enjoy the video's, so it depends how you look at it. On these video's I feel some either have stronger musical playing than design effects, or vise versa, or both concepts are about the same. I'm suprised with the lack of interest in covers such as the Bodom Beach terror one, as I felt this one was one of my strongest and with the most effects, but maybe you find the others more appealing or better designed. Once again depends on the viewer. I'm hoping to play at least one song from each COB album. I mainly base the design of the videos off the cover of the album I'm playing the song off. At the moment I'm thinking of doing a track off Something Wild, mainly because the album art seems easier to make up design ideas from. But if anyone on this forum, has any song cover or design ideas I could use in the video that would be really helpful, preferable for Something Wild or Are you Dead yet. I don't just do these videos totally for fun, I also study graphic design, so these videos help improve my skills and knowledge on how to use these programs i.e 'Adobe After Effects', 'Photoshop'. Anyway, long message, but thought I should mention this.

June 30th, 2009, 03:51 AM	#67 (permalink)
johnharvey1 Metal Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 46	Hey, thanks for the ideas, it's got me thinking

July 6th, 2009, 10:43 AM	#71 (permalink)
COBHC Rayza Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 219	I agree with Arcane. The quality of the sound and quality/accuracy/skill of the guitar playing matters more than the video effects. I agree they look cool but I preffer a regular video any day. Get the fuck off of Arcanes back, he was just saying big whoop with the filters, multiple guitars are creative too