Finally!!
It did take me a while, but the work is over now. 6 hours spent, figuring out what to do, doing, re-doing, finding errors, and then re-redoing it.
And the result:
The following video is a clip from the movie "V for Vendetta". What is special now about this clip is that I have recorded the dialogues of V in this clip, and then replaced the original with them! All else is retained, or I have tried to retain them, only that instead of V, I am saying these thunderous dialogues to the awestruck Natalie Portman. The sound quality isn't too great, neither is my performance. What the hell, I ain't a performer, and the sound is the best I could get from open source.
Cool, aint it?
I had known the V speech for too long. When I see a movie, the dialogues sometimes get etched in my mind unknowingly, but this one was special. It was better than the rest, more innovative, more vicious. But I loved the movie so much, I watched it a couple of times. And the result, one day I realized I remember most of the V speech. So I learned the rest, and lo, here I was, entertaining my friends in classes sometimes, and mesmerizing my younger cousins who had seen nothing of the like.
But It wasn't untill yesterday, when sitting in a particularly boring lecture with the professor ranting out the slides, I thought I could do V. In the movie, and not just the dialogue! So I started looking for ways to replace V. The first task was to set the timeline, and cut a video accordingly. Windows movie maker failed me, yet again! I couldn't view the picture, and only the audio was worthless. But Handbrakedid the task beautifully. I was even able to add subtitles to the video, so I could read the dialogues while delivering, and meanwhile also retained the original video quality. Next, I extracted the audio from the video, and Virtual DJ finally proved its worth. First I had tried the crossfader of Virtual DJ, but it didn't work too well. Not that it didn't offer me a way to remove the dialogues of V, I couldn't do it very efficiently, and traces of V stayed. But when it came to recording, it could play anything, and record in anything! Next, while surfing I came across Audacity, and left all worries aside. With a few youtube videos, I could remove V completely, record my voice, suppress noise from my recording, align the tracks correctly to the timeline, and mix the tracks to ensure the background score didn't go mute when I spoke. I didn't do a very good job, and I think you can hear what I mean in the "Madam Justice...." dialogue, but the overall effect was commendable.
So here it is folks!Presenting, as V, Rohan!
It did take me a while, but the work is over now. 6 hours spent, figuring out what to do, doing, re-doing, finding errors, and then re-redoing it.
And the result:
The following video is a clip from the movie "V for Vendetta". What is special now about this clip is that I have recorded the dialogues of V in this clip, and then replaced the original with them! All else is retained, or I have tried to retain them, only that instead of V, I am saying these thunderous dialogues to the awestruck Natalie Portman. The sound quality isn't too great, neither is my performance. What the hell, I ain't a performer, and the sound is the best I could get from open source.
Cool, aint it?
I had known the V speech for too long. When I see a movie, the dialogues sometimes get etched in my mind unknowingly, but this one was special. It was better than the rest, more innovative, more vicious. But I loved the movie so much, I watched it a couple of times. And the result, one day I realized I remember most of the V speech. So I learned the rest, and lo, here I was, entertaining my friends in classes sometimes, and mesmerizing my younger cousins who had seen nothing of the like.
But It wasn't untill yesterday, when sitting in a particularly boring lecture with the professor ranting out the slides, I thought I could do V. In the movie, and not just the dialogue! So I started looking for ways to replace V. The first task was to set the timeline, and cut a video accordingly. Windows movie maker failed me, yet again! I couldn't view the picture, and only the audio was worthless. But Handbrakedid the task beautifully. I was even able to add subtitles to the video, so I could read the dialogues while delivering, and meanwhile also retained the original video quality. Next, I extracted the audio from the video, and Virtual DJ finally proved its worth. First I had tried the crossfader of Virtual DJ, but it didn't work too well. Not that it didn't offer me a way to remove the dialogues of V, I couldn't do it very efficiently, and traces of V stayed. But when it came to recording, it could play anything, and record in anything! Next, while surfing I came across Audacity, and left all worries aside. With a few youtube videos, I could remove V completely, record my voice, suppress noise from my recording, align the tracks correctly to the timeline, and mix the tracks to ensure the background score didn't go mute when I spoke. I didn't do a very good job, and I think you can hear what I mean in the "Madam Justice...." dialogue, but the overall effect was commendable.
So here it is folks!Presenting, as V, Rohan!
