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Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:15 pm

Hello everyone. I'm an English writing instructor, and at the beginning of my classes each semester I like to demonstrate the power of words to my students. I'm looking for a quality clip of the opening sequence to Transformers The Movie (2007) with just the music and sound effects...I want to compare that to the normal version, with Peter Cullen's voice narrating the backstory, to show the difference.

Does anyone have any idea where I might go about getting the first clip I need? I tried Paramount, but they said they don't get involved with educational/classroom work: since teachers have open/free licensing to use such material, the studio does not provide ANY assistance to them, even for pay (talk about sour grapes!). Does anyone else have any ideas?

Thanks!

News Credits: 767 · Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:19 pm

Get the DVD, install this:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/?lang=de
then play the DVD on your Computer and just tape the sound with that program.
That way you can make the clip as long as you like.

Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:59 pm

<laughs> That's my fault for not being clear. I'm looking for a VIDEO clip of what I was mentioning. Basically I'm going to

1) Show the modified video clip of the opening sequence (with the cube in space, etc) with music and sound effects only...then

2) Show the "normal" video clip, which includes Peter Cullen's voice narrating the backstory.

The point is to show how the words/story adds to the opening sequence.

It'll be easy to simply play the "normal" video clip from the regular DVD...the trick will be finding that same opening sequence without the narration. I don't think there are any sound-editing programs with the capability of editing a copy of the regular beginning and screening out Cullen's narration, but I thought I'd ask. Even better, it would be great if there was a version without the narration floating around somewhere, but I've looked (Google, YouTube) and no cigar...

News Credits: 1 · Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:09 pm

just take the track from autobot arrival and play it on a speaker set and mute the opening sequence on the monitor.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:54 pm

Mr.Bond007 wrote:just take the track from autobot arrival and play it on a speaker set and mute the opening sequence on the monitor.

this would cut out the sound effects during the sequence though.

Unforunately, splitting channels is either extremely complicated or totally impossible. I have tried in the past but failed.

Your best bet would simply be to, as above, mute it an recreate all the music and sound effects yourself. Hunt around online for free sound effect samples from sites to layer onto it.