I've been experimenting with Kdenlive for some of my music projects and wanted to try making something more than a static image + audio.
This is Ritual Initiation, a dark/cinematic orchestral instrumental. I built the video around Kdenlive's spectrum visualizer, generated artwork, and some simple visual effects.
I'm still learning the visualizer side of Kdenlive, so I'd especially love some advice from people who have more experience with it.
For example:
- What visualizer settings tend to work well for orchestral music?
- Are there particular spectrum/bar/waveform settings that work better for slower cinematic sections versus more intense sections?
- Is a spectrum visualizer + artwork + effects enough to keep people engaged in a music video, or should I be adding more visual movement?
- What visual techniques would you use to make an orchestral track feel more dynamic without making the visuals distracting?
- And from a YouTube perspective, what usually helps keep someone watching a music video like this?
I'd genuinely appreciate any criticism or suggestions. I'm trying to improve my editing rather than just make another video and move on. 😄
Also, huge thanks to the Kdenlive team. The built-in audio visualization was surprisingly easy to work with compared with some of the other visualizer tools I've tried. Even rendering this on my old ThinkPad T490 was pretty painless.
What would you change?