My music videos can take so long to put together that I was tempted to eschew comment here, and merely place the link, and thus the video, as today's post.
But I'm a talker, or, er, writer. And there is one aspect of today's video that I couldn't resist discussing.
I have been working on fox videos, though until today, I haven't shown any here. And in that process I have written lyrics for fox songs and set out to employ an extraordinary tool called "Udio" to make a suitable song out of what I wrote. I love the picture ai generators I use, and I love, though am often frustrated by, the video generators out there as well. But these music generators might be my favorite, because their surprises are the kind that can change everything.
Today's video is an excellent example of this. Coming up with a two minute song like this "fox is your heart" one can involve making dozens upon dozens of generations, maybe up to a hundred, carefully listened to, discarded, and altered. I may tweak my lyrics to nudge the results in a better direction. I don't know when to give up. And telling the computer what I want it to do with my song lyrics is an absolute crapshoot. I might have dozens of different ideas for where I want the song to go. Every rare and thrilling once in awhile I get just what I'm looking for. But also, rarely, and just as wonderfully, I get something that goes way out of what I was looking for, but is nevertheless so fantastic that it changes everything.
And that's how I got a Halloween song today!
Getting the song in this video caused me to spend hours redesigning all the footage I'd already worked on to make the whole thing come together properly.
It was worth it.
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