Segue

I finally got around to doing a proof of concept test of a timelapse animation over the weekend. Hooking a Canon 450D DSLR digital still camera up to a Macbook, and setting the remote capture software to grab a frame every 10 seconds, I had the intention of roughly capturing a recording session. Instead I just quickly tidied up the studio, watched some Underworld videos on Youtube, posted on Twitter, and for the breifest of moments actually worked on a track in Ableton. Dumping the photos into Vegas, I knocked up this rough timelapse video. This is my first time testing this out, though our VJ collaborator Jaymis has done quite a few interesting timelapses over the years. I can’t wait to try this out in Hong Kong in a couple of weeks.

The track snippet in this video is a rough mix for a remix I did for Vitreous. The track is called “Pine”, and will be revisited for a fresh mixdown before being signed off and released shortly. More on that soon. Not in the “will tell you when we can” mysterious sense, but in the “we don’t actually know” realistic sense.

One of the interesting characters that has shared in the Segue adventure has been long-time collaborator and geeky creative friend Jaymis. A veteran VJ and video geek, he has done a bunch of our live visuals, lugged gear through airports with us and even filmed and edited our Big Day Out video. You might have spotted him in our Big Day Out photos, which were shot by his equally talented partner, Rach, or my quick behind the scenes video. Drawing upon his experience shooting and editing live event footage, and his frustrations editing other people’s less than interesting live event footage, Jaymis has written a great article on Create Digital Motion with an accompanying rough video comparing the raw and edited footage for the duration of our set closing track, “Reset”. Check it out.

Link: Shooting Video For Gigs: Take That Camera Close and Make It Look Like Stuff Happened

Late one night in the studio, we received an email from a friend overseas citing some difficulty in downloading our Chemical Brothers remix from the site. Taking a cue from the many clips on YouTube acting more as a streaming audio link than a film clip, we grabbed the beleaguered DV camera that films each gig and threw together a quick edit or two. As such we present a quick vid mock up for Chemical Brothers – EBW9 (Segue Remix).

Catch the video on your flavour of Vimeo or YouTube. Also you can still download the track from the original post on the site here.

With Segue enjoying a break from playing over the last few months, there has been time to play with other projects and collaborate in different directions. This is a quick update on what’s been happening with everyone that has been involved in Segue over the years.

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