LinuxMusicians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HSYXQ4dQS4

Another of my video-accompanied songs, this time a hardcore punk theme.

It was made using my usual:

Song: Reaper, Audacity, Drumgizmo, LV2 plugins
Video: Kdenlive the almighty, Gimp the quirky, Mtpaint the Swiss army knife.

For mastering I use this free service that does a general good job (to my uncultured ears):

www.bandlab.com/mastering

However, this time, to my chagrin, the mastering made all the sibilances very present and I had to apply another round of deessing when I thought I was already finished.

I chose to use the word "toxik" with a k because certain famous pop singer claimed the word "toxic" in 2003 for herself with great success. Plus using the k looked dirtier to me.

As for the video, as a novelty, I finally found a viable workflow to use big letters for the lyrics, instead of the handy but limited subtitles option that I was using until now.

Hey straight to the point! Great song and very funny and fitting video!

How did you do the large lettering in kdenlive?

Thank you for watching, glad you liked it...

For the lettering, Kdenlive has something called "title clips" (Project>"Add title clip"). It opens a text editor, you create the text there, and then it goes to the project bin, so you can treat it as if it was a chunk of video: move it around, apply effects to it, etc...