Still listening 8yrs later Derek. Thank you for these beats and the amazing craft and talent you had putting into these sounds and feels. I appreciate everything you did for electronic and music in general. Peace love respect unity PLF
I am obsessed with these videos. They are completely a level above what anybody else is doing with their music videos, which is appropriate considering this music is next level as well.
This song/video combination is stupidly spectacular. I love the juxtaposing of Chicago and nature throughout the video, and how well the video goes with the song.
the sample at 3:12 is undoubtably the most chilling, haunting vocal expression I've ever heard. His use of samples is brilliant throughout this whole album, as always.
The video was made for the song, if you didn't know. Try searching "pretty lights the visual project", should be here on RU-vid, and its a project Pretty Lights did for this album. Pretty awesome stuff
This man has truly captured the art of using technology to it's limits and mixing in a bit of vintage in there... Truly beautiful album and amazing videos, very well done, I can see you put a LOT of time and effort into it all and it has certainly paid off... Listening to this album has become a daily ritual and this song especially... KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DO BEST DEREK, WE LOVE YOU!!
Derek's new album is underrated, I think he put One Day They'll Know in their because he knew his music was on a level of appreciation more progressed than societies current top 40 fads.
Love the album. Love the Vibes. Love the Videos and can not wait to see the next show. Thanks for the great show at Bono 13 and hope you make a trip down south to Florida in the near future.
Digging all these new tunes. Love this video just as much as I do the song. zoned out, beat dropping, pimp rhythms. saw you rock it till the sun came up @ Bonnaroo this year ('13)... Absolutely fantastic show. One of the best highlights for sure and most definitely the prettiest lights.
the videos always go so good with Derek's music I have mad respect for you homie this is something beautifully timeless this organic glitch hop sound is fire! keep it up and keep one rolled!
So memorizing and beautiful..been a fan for a few years now, pretty lights never ceases to amaze me! This album is pure genius :) P.S please come back to Evolve in Antagonish N.S, we love you!
Your videos are so amazing, Also, I would like to mention that the fact that you release much of your music at absolutely no cost.. I have so much love and respect for you! The music you produce is astounding! And yes, I did purchase A Color Map of the Sun on Vinyl. (; Thanks for the trippinz! PLUR + SPAM! I know you're aware of the Sex, Peace, Arts and Marshmallows!
Any video editors out there that can tell me some of the color/ light saturation techniques uses in this and other PL videos. They're always so visual and I'd love to know what effects were uses in some of these videos! PLEASE HELP! :)
It looks as if they use a lot of night shots with projections and time lapses and then use after effects in final cut to saturate and add such ad the flashing you see in the video...
This video was cut in Premier and is the result of experimenting with multiple (up to 6 or 7) layers of video and blend modes... different combinations of blend modes and light techniques create the happy accidents that we thought were the most interesting... a fair amount of garbage mattes were utilized to control the chaos that ensues when you blend that many layers. When that was not enough to get a proper "melt" it would get shipped over to after effects to be properly masked/rotoscoped. I think there are some quick mirror effects in there as well as some split RGB. There were MANY color passes for each layer to normalize the values as much as possible and then one final pass before exporting. Coloring was done with stock adobe utilities as well as Colorista and Looks depending on what was called for. All timelapses were captured in RAW and imported into adobe lightroom and then manipulated with software which allows for keyframing and tweening of lightroom develop settings over the course of the image sequence. This allowed us to really push the colors in a way not really possible with normal footage (unless of course you are shooting RAW). An extreme example of this technique is the highway timelapse in the intro of the piece. There are many softwares which allow for this sort of thing but we use Lightroom timelapse 2 and granite bay deflicker as well as a after effects stabilizer to process our lapses. glad you enjoy it! feel free to shoot us an email at contact@radioeditav.com if you want to know more about the Pretty Lights visual project... there is also a mini doc if you want to peep the process.
