Something A Bit Different

Something A Bit Different — Blue Ink Alchemy

In addition to doing a little writing (less than usual, I'll admit), I thought I'd try a little experiment. I recorded a little audio related to my Portal review while I had the room to myself this past Friday. I brought that audio into a program called Melodyne which, I understand, is the same software used by Valve for voice editing. Someone on YouTube had already played around with it to do the sort of editing required to make Ellen McLain sound like GLaDOS. Following those instructions yielded some interesting results. Unwilling to post just another snippet of audio, and also wanting to make another attempt at doing something with AfterEffects, I started dropping in the results of Google Image searches for things like 'Portal gun,' 'Chell' and 'Testchamber'. A few areas of text here, some interesting other images there, and suddenly I had a video presentation slightly more interesting than your typical corporate PowerPoint offering. I added a little bit of Portal's music as a last touch, but my hard-drive space failed me due to a bunch of old crap floating around the data section. So, while getting some Monday morning mundanity out of the way, I rendered the video from AfterEffects and then compressed it via Premiere. Here's the result. Let me know what you think. As of 12:40, YouTube says it's still rendering, so we'll see how it looks once that process is complete. EDIT: If it won't play for you, click this handy dandy source link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMuIPsSw6zY

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