I was always told "bit black over Bill's mother's" was Midlands slang referring to clouds coming over the hills from Stratford upon Avon, where Shakespeare's mother lived.
At my high school, they used green screen for their video class, and one of the members of the video class ended up using what he learned for a project him and I did. It seemed pretty easy to do...until midway through the video 3/4 of my face turned into the tropical island background we were using.
It's SO refreshing to here the "Bill's mother's" reference spoken by someone else. I was beginning to think it was just me...I love how "local" some sayings can be, say that literally just 5 miles from the Notts Border and it is like you've suddenly started talking a different language!
There's another technique used when a jump-cut is considered undesirable. It's a jump crop, or a crop cut. Where you go from framing the person's torso, to framing their face (or vice versa). That one is very effective, and very aesthetically pleasing.
I am not british, but I still got the Morph Cut joke. The series was broadcasted in other countries as well, so it could be an international reference.
I love that Tom has done a bunch of Language Files videos since this video came out. There was a notable gap obviously and they were all made with Gretchen McCulloch.
In aviation, we call gating (is that how you spell it?) "Squelch". Because airplane engines are loud, pilot and copilot talk to each other through their headsets. Our hands are busy and we don't want to press a button, so we use "Squelch", or as you call it, "Gating". When you aren't talking, the mic doesn't transmit, but as soon as the noise level rises (I.E. you start talking), it starts transmitting to the other headsets. We still get that cutting in and out sound and after eight hours it starts to get very annoying.
And on Discord (voice chat often used by gamers) we call it "not push-to-talk." Usually, the volume gate is set low, and I believe there's a bit of delay before it closes, so ideally it won't cut between words- it will only cut when you finish talking. Of course, _ideally_ we've got less noise than you would have in an airplane, but there's always that one person...
Little late to the party, but that's vox, rather than squelch. Squelch is on the listening side, your radio doesn't start playing the audio until the incoming signal is louder than a certain theshold.
If you watch the trailer for Star Wars Episode III, in the scene where Vader is on the table his arms are up by his head, but in the film they are by his sides. If you look you can see his hands move in an odd way to match up to the original position when he breaks the chains. That was fantastic morphing that people don't really give the team credit for especially given when it was done.
If you guys want another linguistics channel along with TheLingSpace, I recommend Xidnaf and Artifexian as well. Xidnaf has done videos on Thai, Hangul and other writing systems as well as the development of language in history, and Artifexian does world-building videos and occasionally language videos where he's creating his own language. Go check them out
Listening to your example of the gating effect made me appreciate the work you two put into your videos, because I hear that god-awful sound on so many other videos and didn't realize what the problem was. Audio is king!
8:20 it's uncomfortable that it almost feels natural... It's like demonic, it moves in such a way that isn't physically possible but feels like the motion was consciously created by a living being.... Makes me wonder if this is why Tom doesn't seem to age much, he cut his hair and such but does he actually ever look different? No. Tom is not of this world, this realm, this plane of 3 dimensional space...
RU-vid's getting good at recommending videos to me. It suggested this one today, when I've been taking my first, tentative steps into editing a video. I was starting to feel like I'd spent so much time on it, for doing relatively little, and was wondering if I'd get faster with practise; so the comments on how long it takes you to do stuff turned out to be just what I wanted to hear ^_^ I get the impression that once I get used to it I'll be doing things _better_, but not really taking any time over it.
I really enjoy watching the linguistics videos, it's what hooked me up to Tom Scott and later Matt and Tom. That's why I find it sad there aren't more of them but I of course I understand
“A morph cut.” “Is that for when you use plasticine characters?” “No one is going to get the joke.” I am no one. Sorry it took three years for someone to understand.
I have two ideas for future videos. 1. Suggestions for sites to see around England, not just London like a previous video of yours. 2. You and some travel buddies talking about your favorite cuisine both inside and outside of the UK.
If you are having problems with spill from a greenscreen on your subject you can backlight them with CT minus green. These gels remove the green wavelengths from the light (giving them a slightly magenta hue), so that when combined with the green light on the subject they mix to make white.
young enough to have watched ArtAttack in Britain when they re-ran(?) some of it? :P Edit: Apparently it was SMART, the BBC copy of AA that has more recently shown some morph :P
You just brought up a very old memory, Art Attack! That was an awesome show, they aired a few episodes on Egyptian Local TV here, and I recorded a few on our VCR :D Edit: I remember the episode where at the very end they got two giant pendulum things, big paint jar with a hole at the bottom hanging with a long rope, and they swung the jar in random directions, and it drew some abstract art on the giant canvas below :)
It took me a while to realize that when you were talking about audio, you were using the effect and it wasn't my tablet or RU-vid screwing up.... I'm a little slow, but I'm glad you demonstrated!
I do appreciate the little extra effort you guys put into these videos. I think it puts you one step above the standard vlogger. its also interesting to see the kind of work you put into your other videos.
We say "It's a bit black o'er Bill's mother's" in the Black Country too! (Bill is William Shakespeare, apparently thunderstorms originate in Stratford-upon-Avon)
I've edited videos on a hobbyist basis for the last few years. Totally understand where you're coming from on editing effort. When all goes well, it takes about 10x the time to edit the video as it takes to watch the video. Then you add graphics and green screen... infinite time.
My secondary school was constructed in 2012 opened 2013 and had a green screen studio sadly someone messed up with the green screen measurements and with and little bit of floor was correct but somehow hight became total length including the floor bit so they raised it up a bit and the floor section was srunk and the seem that would be between wall and floor is about mid thigh and the screen a foot from the ceiling. it also has a nice shinny air duct running down on the of the room right where you would want to stand
You could’ve noticed but you know it’s green because we don’t wear green because of the bear pattern on the chip causing green to have approximately two times the resolution of the red and green channels
"over bills mothers" I was told this is a reference to Statford, bill being Shakespeare and Stratford (from Coventry in Warwickshire) but that's a little way away from Nottingham
Tom mentioned adding compression to help remove the noise in the background. That would actually have the opposite effect, adding compression and raising the output gain to compensate raises the noise floor and would actually make the problem worse.
Also, when using an audio gate, you can improve the ON/OFF switch effect by decreasing the range so it turn it down by say 10/15dB and not off, then you don't get the cut off. You can also set the hold and release on the gate to be slightly slower, then it will fade off not cut off.... Don't know why I'm telling Matt this, I'm sure he already knows this stuff, but I guess it's more for other people who might want to find out more.
Black over Bill's Mother's is pretty widespread Tom, even though I'm in your neck of the woods. It's used a lot across the Midlands, and also heard some Welsh people use it.
Morph that brings back memory's. Morph was a stop motion Plasticine Character on Art Attack (children's art show in the UK) there is multiple video of him here on youtube so searching with "Morph Art Attack" will get you the best responses.
If the green screen is slightly convex would that reduce the amount of green glow everywhere? Also I imagine the floor and ceiling, and everything close to the green screen should be black, not just nonshiny; as long as they don't need to be visible. For ambient noise, can you record it separate and subtract that sound in post production? Kind of like how directional mics work.
