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Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by torus »

kens wrote: post #23
stevestreza wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. :) Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.

Very cool mashup. Can you give more than technical details of how you made it? Logic Pro and then what? Or is there a site you recommend to explain how to make mashups? I always assumed it was something mere mortals can't do.

Years ago, Acid (I forget who made it) used to have great features for beatmatching tracks and pitch shifting. It wasn't the best DAW by any means but it seemed to have been designed for making mashups.

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Post by Cushman »

driverdan wrote: post #49
Cushman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, what do you feel qualifies it as fair use? That's a fairly specific doctrine (in the US, at least).

Courts have ruled remixes/mashups like this one are fair use.

What cases are you talking about when you say "like this one"? There absolutely is no statutory fair use protection for mashups in the general case, and I'd be shocked if the case law is anything but subjective.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by zacharycohn »

Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats!

Just a few notes about how Youtube works: Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302 to 308, and then they freeze for a few hours.

It'll update after 6 to 8 hours, but it still lags significantly behind real views. It only updates views every 8 hours or so after that, and it takes a few days for the displayed viewcount to catch up to the actual viewcount (We've had instances of videos with more thousands more likes than views... which is entertaining. :p)

One way you can sometimes get a more accurate view is by searching for your video. For some reason, the viewcount on the Youtube Search Results page is NOT linked to the viewcount displayed on the individual video page. It also lags behind, but it appears to update faster.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by gjulianm »

I have to be sincere: I don't like at all modern electronic pop music like LMFAO or PSY. I think that most of these songs rely too much on easy rythms and electronic resources to supply what they can't do with other musical resources.

But, God, you have made such a great work. Both the music and the video. I really love how you're able to combine different songs to create another one and not just throwing random parts of songs together. Great work, congratulations.

By the way, listening to this I remembered Andy Rehfeldt work, who re-records songs changing completely the style. For example, the famous Call Me Maybe in metal version [1] or Metallica playing smooth jazz [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWJ9YaTmoyg [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by stevestreza »

zacharycohn wrote: post #53

Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c ) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats! Just a few notes about how Youtube works: Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302…

Thanks you, and thanks for the YouTube Search tip! I'm not at all ashamed to admit I'm refreshing that page like crazy to see the count go up, haha. :)

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Post by jcr »

zacharycohn wrote: post #53

Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c ) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats! Just a few notes about how Youtube works: Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302…

I mostly wanted to take the chance to say thank you for the "We're NASA And We Know It" video. It was fantastic, and just thinking about it still makes me chuckle.

I'm also curious why google is hiding actual viewcount? I can't think of a viable reason, but I was wondering if you had any insight, or even baseless speculation?

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by citricsquid »

jcr wrote: post #56
zacharycohn wrote: post #53

Nice job! I'm one of the people behind the LMFAO parody "We're NASA And We Know It" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c ) and the LaughPong channel (www.youtube.com/laughpong). It's awesome to see stuff you create like this explode - congrats! Just a few notes about how Youtube works: Chances are, you got a lot more views in the first 24 hours than you think you did. Youtube viewcounts update live until 302…

I mostly wanted to take the chance to say thank you for the "We're NASA And We Know It" video. It was fantastic, and just thinking about it still makes me chuckle. I'm also curious why google is hiding actual viewcount? I can't think of a viable reason, but I was wondering if you had any insight, or even baseless speculation?

Here's a video that explains it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

tl:dr; caching, data syncing, abuse.

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