digital hymnals: exploring the capabilities of quicktime pro

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for assembling digital hymnals

text caption files ASL Movies

audio files music notation slides

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vocal coach videos background slides

2D sprite animated keys

Learn to create and produce eachcomponent... then assemble!

music instrument MIDI

QuickTime-based Media Labas cyber-scriptorium...

a.k.a. A digital hymnal“QuickTorium”

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The Rise of Digital Hymnals:

Exploring The Capabilities of QuickTime Player Pro

July 4, 2014

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The Concept:Digital Hymnals Digital Passionals

DigiCatechistQuickTime Pro-based mobile multimedia lab

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DigiCatechist

Directed Learning: Moral teaching selected from catechism. Develop and illustrate through digital media

“sing with me”

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around digital hymnals:Audio and video production

Custom sound sampling (church instruments, choir)Graphics and 2D computer animation

Video CompressionistsText captioning and ASL Signers

MIDI transcription and compositionMusic instruction (choral/instrumental)

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Why we design digital hymnals“off the grid”

To develop creative habits in composition, avoid the temptation of google image search for a

few months, to find the sacred in and around us and our community and family

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Content Consumers Content Creators

Conscience Creators

Cultural Transformations

Digital Media Revolution Timeline1960’s 1970’s 1980’s 1990’s 2k 2k10

Desktop Publishing Digital Audio Digital VideoInternet

Present DayHardware/software

offerings

The Word transformed: Prayer, Song, and Art for the Beauty of the Church The Rise of Digital Hymnals Posted on August 7, 2011

“... there are now a number of groups beginning to experiment with posting their songs and materials online in a different kind of digital hymnal altogether ... one that you can take with you wherever you are ... for free. Where you can access mp3’s, lead sheets, and other information from the web. “

Cardiphonia.org

Digital Hymnals Today:

Many individual efforts

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advancing towards accord

Operating System QuickTime Version

D-hymnal Sprint Coach says: “By carefully repositioning one foot back,

slow starts can be transformed into quick times”

Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later Windows 2000/XP

Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or laterWindows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista

Mac OS 8.6 – 9.x, Mac OS X (10.1.5-10.2)Windows 98, Me, 2000, and XP. 6 - 6.4

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7.3

QuickTime Player (free) includes built-in instruments (church organs, pianos, strings)

QuickTime Player Pro ($29)allows content creators to edit, augment both sound track data and visual track data; QTPro edited Movies can be viewed with the free QuickTime Player

QuickTime is already ‘out there’ on millions of computers (and can be downloaded from Apple’s website, too)

ANCTUSSoftware based digital hymn and music playback with additional multimedia features

“SANCTUS” chosen for demonstration purposes. QuickTime Player Pro is the media engine. Your digital hymnal’s name could be: “Holy Spirit Catholic Church Digital Hymnal”, “First UMC Youth Ministry Digital Hymnal”, etc.

QuickTime is modular: A digital hymnal can be created from available off-the-shelf digital audio and visual components that you compose yourself

Every published hymn now available online for consideration: Let’s compile our ultimate sacred playlist

Create digital hymnals for: Daily Masses; Youth Ministry; Choir Rehearsals; Retirement Communities; Christian Day Care Centers. Highlight a specific composer or period

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QuickTime Pro Overview


data size data ratebackground 143.8k 443.0 bytes/secslides 417.0k 1.2k bytes/seceffects 11.7k 36.0 bytes/secvideo 4.0 MB 12.4k bytes/secsound 1.2 MB 3.8k bytes/seccaption text 8.0 k 25.0 bytes/sec

QuickTime compositions reknowned for high quality, modest bandwidth

Movie length: 5:32 Track count: 12Size: 780 x 479

Pixar short films slide

digital finnegans wakeuse of animation to communicate non verbally

entertain as secondary character


“Media forms have changed very little in the past decade, we continue to communicate information via text, motion video, animation, photo images

QuickTime Player has from its inception been capable of handling all the above media forms in many industry standard formats and codecs

One can think of QuickTime as a digital media syllabary, and aneffective tool for communication. An effective tool forcommunication does not have an expiration date.”

QuickTime Pro Overview“When the technology of a time is powerfully thrusting in one direction, wisdom may well call for a countervailing thrust.”

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VIDEO:Sign language interpreter

orVisual Choral Instruction

orSpoken Word Message

ALT. TRACK 2 SLIDES(e.g. CONGREGATION MUSIC)

PRIMARY TRACK 1

MONUMENTS MENHOMILY

your themeSorenson

orMPEG4

wiredFlash

or other

JPEGsGIFsPNGsFlash

video...

See-and-Play KeyboardMIDI QT instruments

A QuickTime Pro Movie

Media as Translators

QuickTime architecture is scaleableEach digital hymn can be custom configured based upon hardware, CPU and operating system

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Can be a simple MIDI file player only; Can playback audio files (AIFF, WAV, AAC) through any P.A. system -or- thru organ speaker system

Can also include visual tracks for: congregation follow-along singing; chord charts/lead sheets for choir rehearsal; vocal, piano & organ instructional video/animation

Public domain hymns from the past 750 years. Latin Mass music. Classical vespers. Organ, Choral standards from antiquity.

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Enable Tracks example: musical score + audio

verse 1

Glo-ry to God! An-gelhosts are singing. Is-rael's

Holy One, Has for usbe-come Ma-ry's Son, peace on earth to us

bring-ing,

verse 1

Enable Tracks example: Composing a Presentation

The visuals are not composed for you hereto, therefore you compose

the visuals now.

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- Organ

Vocal Coach

ASLHere is where some caption text may go...

(video track)

(video track)

(scanned image-score track)

(keyboard coach-video or animation)

St. Mary’s Catholic Church123 Santa Maria Ave. McAllen, Texas 77777

TextSlides

Music track

Slideshow createdwith QT 2.5

playing in QTP 6.5.2

A youthful movie c.1994 still has relevant messages that a mature QT 6.5.2 can appreciate and understand :)

Synched audio tracks or QTVR hotspots

Click on a singer to hear that part

QTVR

1st Part 2nd Part 3rd Part

QT Movie

Vocal Coach

Bach Invention 11 images courtesy: MakePages.com Steven Estrella

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- Organ

“sing with me”


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QuickTime Proallows you to

select and loopany portion of a

movie...

Listen.Learn.Sing.

Replay.

QuickTime Proallows you to

select and loopany portion of a

movie...

Listen.Learn.Sing.

Replay.

The potential for a thousandtrained organists in every diocese

is now very real.

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AUDIO MIXING CLASSETTE

Implimenting digital Mackie 1608, six sub outs to

headphones, 16 inputs fromMIDI or DAW

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IN CLASS GROUP PROJECTLISTEN TO SOUNDTRACK MUSIC

ASSIGN AN ORCHESTRA SECTION TO EACHBUILD A SONG DURING CLASS

CHANGE INSTRUMENT ASSIGNMENTSREPEAT

TEXTBOOK: Arranging Techniques For SynthesistsEric Turkel

We recognize the solemn and sacred nature of sanctuary music, as well as the familiar aural signatures of church instruments

As confidence increases, musicians receive God’s call to

play at each service...

Youth Ministry can record or assemble

and compose a comparable digital

instrument...

...that can play through the organ amplifier

system, or through the sound system.

As music synthesis architectures have become increasingly prevalent, so too has the need for a standard format for defining musical instruments. Although the General MIDI (GM) specification for

128 instrument presets helps to a small degree, it lacks both the depth and breadth to deliver a truly consistent playback experience across a wide range of platforms. There exists a need for a musical instrument standard that allows composers to define exactly how each musical instrument sounds on a wide variety of playback devices. In January 1997, the MIDI Manufacturers Association ratified the first industry-wide standard for transporting complete sounds

between synthesizers. The Downloadable Sounds Level 1 Specification (DLS-1) defines a first order cross-platform synthesizer model that allows developers to target a large range of playback devices with a single set of content while still maintaining consistent playback across all those platforms. Further extensions to that architecture have been added in this specification. It is

important to understand that this specification defines a purely symbolic system that can be mapped onto many different designs.

QuickTime Player Pro includes a full General MIDI sound set licensed from Roland Corp.

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*great pianos and organs*great choral chants

well rounded strings, synth pads, electric pianosmodest drums (most will be played live)

Text: Arranging Techniques For SynthesistsEric Turkel

Acquiring a top-shelf “Digital Hymnal GM Soundset”:

QuickTime movies deserve “epic movie music”

Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to

conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the

engineering skills to assemble the piece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass

"As a student of literature and the arts, I became aware of the enormous role that the church had played in

underpinning these great human activities over the centuries. I was aware that the church had always been on

the side of art and intellect and that the effects of the church therefore were everywhere for men to see and admire."

-Marshall McLuhan

the Bridge,provided with

sound information,charts our course

the Engines,fully functional,get us there with

great speed

Apple:For my birthday, I would like: “Q-Two”, or “Q-Eleven”

*all previous media types fully restoredA revolutionary cross-platform and all-inclusive legacyOS and modernOS

version of QuickTime. Scalable upon installation, works with any computerfrom Windows 9x, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8

All Mac OS flavors, All Unix-based OSes.

every codecevery file type

MIDI to Sprite animationPro version that includes

editing “stage”

MIDI files are very, very small. MIDI sequence files can auditionand change instrument sample(s) for any or all parts.

(mp3 audio and CD-audio cannot be re-orchestrated unless performance is re-recorded)

Additionally, BOTH audio tracks AND MIDI instruments can be synchronized together in QuickTime

MIDI files using the Quicktime Instruments can be converted into AIFF or AAC (CD-quality) stereo audio files

with Quicktime Pro and iTunes

A standard MIDI file sequence containing only one instrument can be saved as a QuickTime Movie, then additional instruments layered in unison by copying and adding the original sequence back into the movie as new tracks.Choose a new music synthesizer instrument for each. Volumes and panning of each can be adjusted and saved.

This new QuickTime Movie containing additional instruments mixed and layered in unison with the original MIDI sequence instrument results in a richer, fuller sound. Drop/import into iTunes where you can convert and save as an AAC stereo audio file. (Play )

How To Improve a Solo Piano or Organ SequenceStandard MIDI file tip:

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Organizing Your QuickTime-based digital hymns

simple folder...or...QuickTime Player ‘Favorites’;iTunes Playlists; (4.8 and higher)

Drag & Drop ordering; “it just works”(screen capture demo)

Animated Keyboards: there are many!

Synthesia

Midi Sheet Music

MidiTrail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)

Open source 3D animation application; MIDI-to-Animation scripts! Create a simple or complex animated keyboard that visually depicts piano/organ performances; Video tool for anyone who wants to learn to play without reading music notation. Save as a QuickTime Movie and add to digital hymnals

MIDI continues to thrive and remain indispensablewithin the world wide community of creative artists

http://blendit.xaa.pl

QT Digital HymnalPalette

Duplicate,then drag or

positionwith arrow

keys

Follow the notes on the scoreby coloring in the right keys

Make a new slide for each note in sequence

Export your keyboard animation as a QuickTime movie

Keyboard Animation Assignment

Captions & Text Tracks

QuickTime teleprompter software solution:

this button will flip (reverse)text

A QuickTime-based digital hymnal can:

Be a simple MIDI file player onlyPlay MIDI file with slides

Play MIDI, slides, and caption-text trackPlay MIDI, slides, captions, and video track

Play CD-audio WAV or AAC files onlyPlay audio file, scanned images as slides, animation track (e.g., a keyboard ora metronome or a time-code clock) a vocal coach video, a sign language video,

text caption track

A QuickTime-based digital passional can include:

video clipsslide presentations

captioned text in multiple languagesaudio narration in multiple languages

Because of QuickTime Pro’s scaleable architecture and philosophy of inclusion of legacy codecs, any Mac or PC computer manufactured in the past 15 years can play QuickTime Movies

Video compression codecs developed during the era of dial-upachieve excellent quality at low bitrates, thereby making

them a good choice for CDROM delivery on older machines

ffmpegX MPEG-4 Encoder/Transcoder

Convert AVCMPEG-4

into QuickTime 6-compatibleSimple Profile (SP)

MPEG-4

QuickTime movie on CD* Viewer

DELIVERY METHODS: DISK, WEB SERVER, STREAMS

You can share QuickTime movie files cross-platform in one of three ways: as files on a CD or DVD, from a web server, or as real-time streams. You don’t necessarily have to choose one method; with QuickTime, you can mix and match.

*CD transfer speeds much faster than USB 1.x

Video Acquisition: DV-25 SDLaunched in 1995

Standard Definition (SD) Digital Video continues to be a popularbroadcast standard worldwide.*

*2006 HDV was heavily pushed in USAhowever, BBC creates shows with SD DVCPro50

DV as an acquisition and editing format:All digital path; modest computer processor requirements;

12GB for 1 hour storage (2 GB for 10mins)DV software editing (such as iMovie) can achieve pro-broadcast results

Headline: April 1, 1976

All time is now, andthe simultaneous

insists uponthe harmonious

Video Acquisition: DV-25 SDQ: “I want to replace natural backgrounds with computer-

generated ones. I read somewhere that DV-25, with its4:1:1 sampling, does not lend itself to green screen work.”

A: Most of the technical shortcomings of standard DV have been addressed

through software, however,for digital hymnal production,

simple, colored backdrops work best, are cost effective and compress well.

For Further Reading

Cardiphonia (blog)http://cardiphonia.org/2011/08/07/the-rise-of-digital-hymnals

Cyber Hymnalhttp://www.hymntime.com/tch/

http://www.smallchurchmusic.com/

http://www.hymnary.org/ipad

For Further Reading

Creating s-l-o-w-m-o with QuickTimeEach Media Lab control-tower desk contains a digital cameraOlympus D-535*, 545*, or 550*

Each digital camera can recordshort soundless QuickTime Movies

When are short soundless QuickTime Movies useful?

*cameras available for $10 - $25 on eBay

How are s-l-o-w-m-o QuickTime Movies effective?

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- Organ

“sing with me”


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This is the text track that can be hidden or shown

ASLVC

HYMNS: 77 11

34378

Web delivery required printing press-like repeatability, duplication, conformity...

Digital Hymnal:Each laptop is unique,we experiment with

different codecs, track combinations, and file formats to hear and to

see what looks best and performs best on

each machine

QuickTime Pro is the canvasselectable codecs, track combinations, and file formats to hear and

to see what looks best and performs best on each machine

For Sunday, July 20, 2014

Because every QuickTime movie can be custom configured according to: CPU, operating system, QuickTime software version and media tracks necessary, each media artist can create their

digital hymnal with ‘personal signatures’, rendering no two hymnals exactly alike.”............................................................

For Sunday, July 20, 2014

“The future of the book is very much in the order of book as information service. Instead of the book as a fixed package of repeatable and

uniform character suited to the market with pricing, the book is increasingly taking on the

character of service, as information service, and the book as an information service is tailor-made and custom built.” The Medium is the Massage” Understanding Me, M McLuhan

Adjusting Track Offset (track start times)

Congregational prayer and singing micro adjustments made by many independent voices to achieve harmony and unison

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TRORE

RE

RETRO WORKFLOW(narration)_ Music Track FIRST:Sibelius? Freestyle?

slides, instrument and vocal tracks synched to music...Flash 3, 4, 5; Powerpoint/Impress/Keynote

QuickTime 2.5, 3.0 for playback-very early laptopsQuickTime 4.1.1 Pro, 6 Pro, 7 Pro for authoring laptops

Standard DV-25 for video acquisition and editinglighting and background techniques

CDROM delivery (QuickTime) iDVD (mpeg2)iMovie 1-4 for DV editing (Mac)

ULead VideoStudio4 for DV editing (W95,W98,2000,NT)Windows Movie Maker 2.6

BEST PRACTICES Model for media lab educational

EXAMPLE USE OF iDVD PRODUCTION:

“My grandmother never learned to read music, however, she has her own very interesting way of playing this song on the piano. Here it is:”

This is sort of Steve Jobs’ vision of the Piano Guy in all of us...here it is live in sorenson video...or here it is simulated with an image sequence....

hand positions can be very important, for transitions(this is not what Piano Guy teaches...)(this is what Mr. Rosenthal DID teach)

Animation: what about line drawing of hands and keys?visualize: Aha “take on Me”

*transfer audio to from ipod headphones to laptop line in*transfer audio from laptop headphone out to 2nd laptop line in

*transfer audio from browser or other app out headphoneinto line in of SAME, into audio recording app

Technology in the Keyboard Lab

Headset Microphone

MIDI keyboard

Keyboard camera

digital hymnals: exploring the capabilities of quicktime pro

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