Los melancolicos de marte__0253, originally uploaded by kx0101.

Just a pleasant evening with Los Melancolicos de Marte right in the epicenter of the Isabela Music Club at Cano’s. Cool grooves great times and photos to watch.

check out the photosession here

Habitat Promo ’09 from KX0101CreativeArts on Vimeo.

Project: Habitat Promo ’09
Artist: Habitat
Dir. Karlo X. Ramos
www.kx0101.com

Recently finished editing this promo video for Puerto Rican rock band Habitat . Shot during one of their live gigs last week using the d90 and a 50mm f1.8 lens. Footage was edited in Premiere and color corrected using Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks plugin inside After Effects. The audio track was done using Ableton live. to mix the 3 songs used in the promo.

One lesson i learned during this project was that you can’t color correct every clip in Premiere’s timeline because it will make your project chunkier (it will add a filter to every clip!). I found the best way is to color correct using an adjustment layer inside after effects and start adding toggle hold keyframes from shot to shot to make the color variations change accordingly within your composition. This will save rendering times, cpu and would help you work leaner and meaner with big file sizes.

Regarding the audio it was really simple. I started with 3 songs from the artist in mp3 format. I load them on Ableton and chopped until i got the power intro from the first song and the choruses form the last 2 songs. Then i sequence the clips in the order i wanted (power intro-laidback chorus-outro chorus) overlap them a bit crossfade beween tracks and export as aiff.

Photos here

La mancha del jardin, originally uploaded by kx0101.

band shot back stage before their gig. I was lucky enough to have a plain white wall… How convenient

Somvazio, originally uploaded by kx0101.

Yesterday I shot some pics for somvazio another cool band from Puerto Rico’s west rock scene . The photoshoot took place in a construction site in Hatillo near #2 Road. The guys were real troopers. I even make them stand on nasty / bio hazard kind of water they even got real close to some ledges that were still in bricks and were kinda unsafe i’ll say. They did a great job overall the images came out great.

Watch a sample of that sessionhere