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Avene - The 4 Web Spinners

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About a month ago I went out into the backyard and the 4 spiders who are all close together with their webs linked to one another were all spinning at the same time! You'll see all 4 in this video, but mostly the biggest one that was closest.

This was shot on my tiny Ricoh Caplio R7 camera at VGA resolution. The original footage was rubbish. Over exposed, noisy etc. Since movie mode on the camera is fully automatic I couldn't change the exposure. But I ran it through a Magic Bullet Movie Looks preset, Neat Video, added some artificial noise, cropped it to 16:9 and output it at 720P resolution! But it actually doesn't looked that bad now. The Ricoh cameras have a great macro mode though.

Also, the original frame rate was 30P which is rubbish also, so I reduced the playback rate to 24P.

The music was mixed on the desk again. I think the bassline could be too loud though. Once again the main synth part is from the Korg Poly 800. Recording tracks in Vegas is a bit fiddly, but I'm getting used to it.

By the way, currently there's only one spider left there. I'm not sure which one it is, but I noticed the other 3 were gone when we got back from Thailand. Apparently there was a storm here while we were away, so that might have cleaned them up.
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Willem Van den Broeck    June 03, 2009 02:55 PM

super macros

Like the music, too. I'm not certain whether i imagine hearing you mixed it analog. Knowing you got it out of the box and it somehow seems to sound fuller.
Glenn Thomas    June 03, 2009 10:23 PM

Thanks Willem.

I can hear the difference, and I find it a lot easier to mix. The trouble is my outboard gear isn't the best. A few old fx processors from the early 90s and a Behringer compressor. Of course the individual tracks are being played from the computer via cheap M-Audio 1010LT cards also, and then recorded back to the computer via the firewire interface on my Mackie Onyx.
Shiv Kumar    October 28, 2009 11:46 AM

Very interesting and impressive macros Glenn and to think it was shot using your tiny Ricoh Caplio R7.
Glenn Thomas    October 28, 2009 11:56 AM

Thanks Shiv. If only they offered HD video recording and an exposure lock!

They're cheap cameras though.


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Glenn Thomas
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