Debra Hadraba “Be Brave, Have Heart” DVD Music Video Project
I am working on a music video to be included as part of an enhanced CD single to be released by Debra Hadraba, a singer/songwriter from St. Paul, MN. She is one of the founding members of the Braveheart Women Global Community and will be appearing at BraveHearts Rise! an Oct 2 – 3 Conference in Los Angeles with the likes of Dr. Maya Angelou, Mariel Hemingway and founder Ellie Drake among others.
She wrote the song, “Be Brave, Have Heart” in 2008 and worked on the studio recording, perfecting it for almost a year, We shot the video in several takes, carrying a Sony laptop PC with speakers as our portable sound source, struggling with the setting sun and trying not to get blowing sand in the keyboard. The zany outtakes might reveal Debra tumbling over a sand dune at Baileys Harbor Beach as I encouraged her to run away from the camera to close a scene… a mini-disaster.
Debra is amazing to work with, having little shyness to act out and embody her songs. You can see more of her zany and yet, thoughtful side at Honor Your Truth, Debra Hadraba’s YouTube Channel.
We discovered a photographic goldmine of imagery and would like to thank everyone at the heart street art pool on Flickr who was kind enough to permit downloads of their heart graffiti photographs.
I am learning to build an enhanced audio CD rather than a DVD, so that Debra’s music can be played on a typical car stereo or portable CD player and the same disc can provide video, pdfs, photos and other extra content when opened in a computer. This method requires including an autorun.inf file to open the extra content on the CD.
I have been struggling with a few issues about lag time between the audio and video tracks, and am most familiar with rendering H.264 for online movies. I only notice the lag when when playing a local copy… a lag that disappears when I post it online. I tried rendering a Quicktime movie for the CD but that wasn’t acceptable either. After talking with Dave at Studio-120 in Minneapolis, I learned that the most dependable and universal format for enhanced CDs is FLV or Flash video. So, I finalized the film as an AVI at 1,116,408 KB and he can pull the FLV from that.
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