Adobe Tools Play Vital Role in New Enhanced CD Set Featuring Sir George Martin

Designer Dan Kellerby (www.kellerby.com) uses Adobe software to create a 6 CD ROM series about classical music featuring Sir George Martin. Sir George chose vibrant recordings from the archives of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and assembled them into six CDs of essential listening, complete with personally written liner notes and classic art presentations.

Widely acclaimed as the most influential and prolific record producer in history, Sir George Martin has produced more than 700 recordings in a career spanning 50 years and genres as diverse as jazz, rock, classical, comedy and film soundtracks, with an unprecedented and unmatched 31 Number 1 hits.

Beloved for his work with The Beatles, Martin is lesser known for his training in and love for classic music. Classical influences are prevalent throughout his work and among many of the Beatles most famous recordings including "Eleanor Rigby," "In My Life" (with its baroque-style middle eight) and the classic crescendo at the end of "A Day In The Life." Now, Sir George Martin, the legendary producer, composer and arranger best known for his work with The Beatles, has collaborated with Compendia Music Group to release a classical music series, enhanced with video commentary, titled "Sir George Martin Presents." All six enhanced compact disc titles will be released in the U.S. on April 9, 2002.

Sir George Martin chose vibrant recordings from the archives of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and assembled them into six CDs of essential listening, complete with personally written liner notes and classic art presentations. The enhanced CDs allow users to view specially filmed commentary from Sir George as he discusses his favorite composers, their music, and the effect these important pieces have had on his life and career and on the music of the Beatles.

Designer Dan Kellerby (www.kellerby.com) created the QuickTime videos, classic art presentations, and other media elements on the enhanced CD series using Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere software. Compendia Music Group initially approached Kellerby simply to cut raw footage of Sir George Martin into a short presentation suitable for an electronic press kit. However, when Kellerby viewed the footage of Sir George Martin, he recognized its enormous potential. A celebrity in his own right, Sir George Martin has a charming, easy way of introducing classical music that reduces its intimidation factor. Martin also gives an inside glimpse of what it was like working with the Beatles and tells of many instances when classical music influenced them. The high trumpet in Bachs Brandenburg Concerto, for example, prompted the Beatles to include a piccolo trumpet in "Penny Lane."

Kellerby received video on December 15, 2001 and his deadline for completing content for the enhanced CD content was January 31, 2002. Working under this tight timeline, Kellerby used Premiere to clean up the audio and After Effects to remove jerkiness from the video, a fairly substantial undertaking because of the roughness of the original footage. Kellerby had no B-Roll of Sir George Martin, so he decided to cut the video of Martin against classical art pieces from the period of each composers lifetime. He cleaned up and adjusted the color of each high-resolution photograph of a fine art painting using Photoshop, then used After Effects and Premiere to pan around the photographs, as if a camera was actually moving around the painting itself. He output each fine art presentation as an interactive .swf file. Once he created QuickTime videos of Sir George Martin and the classical art pieces, he combined everything together and added simple transitions using Premiere. Everything was edited offline, using either a Dell or Apple Power Macintosh computer.

The intent of most enhanced CDs is to add more than just music to a CD, including music videos, a still photograph gallery, general information or band resumes. In this instance, viewers get even more-a fresh look at classical music through the eyes of a celebrity.

Systems at a glance
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere
Apple Power Mac computer
Dell computer
   
ABOUT KELLERBY COMPANY
The Kellerby Company began programming computers and designing web sites as early as 1983. In 1997 LeftRightBrain, a video production firm and Imagine It Media, a design house specializing in Web Design and Network Architecture merged to form the Kellerby Company.

Lead principal of the company, Dan Kellerby moved to Nashville in 1990 at the urging of Benson Music Publishing and chart topping producer and publisher Bob Millsap. In entertainment, he has worked with the likes of: Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Sawyer Brown, Reggie White, Warner Music, Westwood One, Word Records, ForeFront Records, Rodney Crowell, Reba McIntire, Dolly Parton, Hoyt Axton, Sandi Patti, and many more. Kellerby has produced video that achieved double platinum status and has produced multi-media projects for then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. He has served as Vice President of both Big Doggie Records and Silent Planet Records.

Our client history includes: Compendia Media Group, Sir George Martin, Ingram Industries, Nortel Networks, Word Publishing, Sony Music Group, Nanci Griffith, CNA Insurance, Outboard Marine Corporation, Y-Tex Corporation, Columbia Tristar Pictures, Provident Music Group, Benson Music, Audio Productions, Atlantic Records and CampusVibe.com.
   
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Taunia Kellerby
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