I was always told "bit black over Bill's mother's" was Midlands slang referring to clouds coming over the hills from Stratford upon Avon, where Shakespeare's mother lived.
There's another technique used when a jump-cut is considered undesirable. It's a jump crop, or a crop cut. Where you go from framing the person's torso, to framing their face (or vice versa). That one is very effective, and very aesthetically pleasing.
It's SO refreshing to here the "Bill's mother's" reference spoken by someone else. I was beginning to think it was just me...I love how "local" some sayings can be, say that literally just 5 miles from the Notts Border and it is like you've suddenly started talking a different language!
At my high school, they used green screen for their video class, and one of the members of the video class ended up using what he learned for a project him and I did. It seemed pretty easy to do...until midway through the video 3/4 of my face turned into the tropical island background we were using.
I am not british, but I still got the Morph Cut joke. The series was broadcasted in other countries as well, so it could be an international reference.
I love that Tom has done a bunch of Language Files videos since this video came out. There was a notable gap obviously and they were all made with Gretchen McCulloch.
In aviation, we call gating (is that how you spell it?) "Squelch". Because airplane engines are loud, pilot and copilot talk to each other through their headsets. Our hands are busy and we don't want to press a button, so we use "Squelch", or as you call it, "Gating". When you aren't talking, the mic doesn't transmit, but as soon as the noise level rises (I.E. you start talking), it starts transmitting to the other headsets. We still get that cutting in and out sound and after eight hours it starts to get very annoying.
And on Discord (voice chat often used by gamers) we call it "not push-to-talk." Usually, the volume gate is set low, and I believe there's a bit of delay before it closes, so ideally it won't cut between words- it will only cut when you finish talking. Of course, _ideally_ we've got less noise than you would have in an airplane, but there's always that one person...
Little late to the party, but that's vox, rather than squelch. Squelch is on the listening side, your radio doesn't start playing the audio until the incoming signal is louder than a certain theshold.
If you watch the trailer for Star Wars Episode III, in the scene where Vader is on the table his arms are up by his head, but in the film they are by his sides. If you look you can see his hands move in an odd way to match up to the original position when he breaks the chains. That was fantastic morphing that people don't really give the team credit for especially given when it was done.
8:20 it's uncomfortable that it almost feels natural... It's like demonic, it moves in such a way that isn't physically possible but feels like the motion was consciously created by a living being.... Makes me wonder if this is why Tom doesn't seem to age much, he cut his hair and such but does he actually ever look different? No. Tom is not of this world, this realm, this plane of 3 dimensional space...
If you guys want another linguistics channel along with TheLingSpace, I recommend Xidnaf and Artifexian as well. Xidnaf has done videos on Thai, Hangul and other writing systems as well as the development of language in history, and Artifexian does world-building videos and occasionally language videos where he's creating his own language. Go check them out
Listening to your example of the gating effect made me appreciate the work you two put into your videos, because I hear that god-awful sound on so many other videos and didn't realize what the problem was. Audio is king!
If you are having problems with spill from a greenscreen on your subject you can backlight them with CT minus green. These gels remove the green wavelengths from the light (giving them a slightly magenta hue), so that when combined with the green light on the subject they mix to make white.
I really enjoy watching the linguistics videos, it's what hooked me up to Tom Scott and later Matt and Tom. That's why I find it sad there aren't more of them but I of course I understand
RUclips's getting good at recommending videos to me. It suggested this one today, when I've been taking my first, tentative steps into editing a video. I was starting to feel like I'd spent so much time on it, for doing relatively little, and was wondering if I'd get faster with practise; so the comments on how long it takes you to do stuff turned out to be just what I wanted to hear ^_^ I get the impression that once I get used to it I'll be doing things _better_, but not really taking any time over it.
I do appreciate the little extra effort you guys put into these videos. I think it puts you one step above the standard vlogger. its also interesting to see the kind of work you put into your other videos.
young enough to have watched ArtAttack in Britain when they re-ran(?) some of it? :P Edit: Apparently it was SMART, the BBC copy of AA that has more recently shown some morph :P
You just brought up a very old memory, Art Attack! That was an awesome show, they aired a few episodes on Egyptian Local TV here, and I recorded a few on our VCR :D Edit: I remember the episode where at the very end they got two giant pendulum things, big paint jar with a hole at the bottom hanging with a long rope, and they swung the jar in random directions, and it drew some abstract art on the giant canvas below :)
It took me a while to realize that when you were talking about audio, you were using the effect and it wasn't my tablet or RUclips screwing up.... I'm a little slow, but I'm glad you demonstrated!
My secondary school was constructed in 2012 opened 2013 and had a green screen studio sadly someone messed up with the green screen measurements and with and little bit of floor was correct but somehow hight became total length including the floor bit so they raised it up a bit and the floor section was srunk and the seem that would be between wall and floor is about mid thigh and the screen a foot from the ceiling. it also has a nice shinny air duct running down on the of the room right where you would want to stand
I have two ideas for future videos. 1. Suggestions for sites to see around England, not just London like a previous video of yours. 2. You and some travel buddies talking about your favorite cuisine both inside and outside of the UK.
I've edited videos on a hobbyist basis for the last few years. Totally understand where you're coming from on editing effort. When all goes well, it takes about 10x the time to edit the video as it takes to watch the video. Then you add graphics and green screen... infinite time.
“A morph cut.” “Is that for when you use plasticine characters?” “No one is going to get the joke.” I am no one. Sorry it took three years for someone to understand.
"over bills mothers" I was told this is a reference to Statford, bill being Shakespeare and Stratford (from Coventry in Warwickshire) but that's a little way away from Nottingham
Tom mentioned adding compression to help remove the noise in the background. That would actually have the opposite effect, adding compression and raising the output gain to compensate raises the noise floor and would actually make the problem worse.
Also, when using an audio gate, you can improve the ON/OFF switch effect by decreasing the range so it turn it down by say 10/15dB and not off, then you don't get the cut off. You can also set the hold and release on the gate to be slightly slower, then it will fade off not cut off.... Don't know why I'm telling Matt this, I'm sure he already knows this stuff, but I guess it's more for other people who might want to find out more.
We say "It's a bit black o'er Bill's mother's" in the Black Country too! (Bill is William Shakespeare, apparently thunderstorms originate in Stratford-upon-Avon)
You could’ve noticed but you know it’s green because we don’t wear green because of the bear pattern on the chip causing green to have approximately two times the resolution of the red and green channels
If the green screen is slightly convex would that reduce the amount of green glow everywhere? Also I imagine the floor and ceiling, and everything close to the green screen should be black, not just nonshiny; as long as they don't need to be visible. For ambient noise, can you record it separate and subtract that sound in post production? Kind of like how directional mics work.
Some filipinos call that (when the sun is out while thunderclouds are still there or when the sun is out while its still raining) "may kinakasal na tikbalang". Which means that two tikbalangs (filipino mythical creature, think minotaur with a horse head instead of a bull) are getting married.
What about active noise cancellation? I know there's a setting in Audition that can eliminate most noise, and if you fiddle with it enough, you can get it to a point where you don't sound too robotic.
I thought the end of this was gonna be you two getting up and walking away, then all the effects fade out and it turns out you were sitting on a green box in a green-screen studio the entire time :P
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Notice how the grass lower in the frame isn't keyed out as well as at the top? It's a different shade of green! --Matt
I'm of the opinion that the effect also looks amazing, even if the intended effect doesn't really work that well
I just assumed that was the point.
Referring specifically to the bottom parts where the effect kind of blends with the grass, I had assumed that was an unintentional side effect
KingCulta Which demonstrated the point about how you need to light the entire background completely evenly pretty well.
You just couldn't be bothered to trace the static scenery :P
"Oh my god, that's why my chin kept going slightly transparent." -Tom Scott, 2016
4:54
"Great sentences of our time!"
Not helping matters, Tom being a Northern European person is himself highly reflective, and helps to spread that bouncing green light even more.
Good to see him reflecting on that!
@@DDendrite2 such an underrated joke
I love how the rainbow comic sans has become the standard way to correct mistakes on the park bench
Rainbow comic sans is the best font
Imagine sending a CV for a serious job application with that font.
@@eamonahern7495 try it, you would certainly stand out
@@Liggliluff 🤣 I might you know!
I was always told "bit black over Bill's mother's" was Midlands slang referring to clouds coming over the hills from Stratford upon Avon, where Shakespeare's mother lived.
It's also a thing in South Yorkshire
i was always told Will's mother's not bill
Wilhelm, from what I read.
"Great, I'm giving myself an editing job" Later: Turns the grass into the space of the cosmos.
To be fair, it's literally two clicks for that to happen.
Tom: I'm not doing any more language files videos
2019 Tom: *Makes new language files videos*
Tom Scott you liar!
I came here to comment that
I mean she finished the book
I was just thinking that 👀👀
Maybe because Gretchen finished her book?
Maybe more park bench??
i was hoping a lime green car would go past
8:34
@@tomlofmark8788 That´s yellow
who tf has a lime green car
@@undeniablySomeGuy you'd be suprised
@@tomlofmark8788 that's a yellow mini
So glad Tom's "I'm not doing any more Language Files" turned out false, and I love that Gretchen's book is out now!
0:50 Matt's ability to go from laughing his arse off to completely serious in less than a second is astonishing.
Sometimes the automatic subtitles are amazing. 3 seconds in: "I am a laptop"
Soobtitlays?
I am a missile
@@yoyoyonono "Oh no, I'm a missile, time to stop tracking my GPS location!"
Morph reference ftw!
;)
Well hello there EE
Well hello there EE
Tony Hart R.I.P. :(
Was about to say that myself.
"Oh my god, that's why my chin kept going slightly transparent!" … from the list of sentences I did not expect to hear today … or ever.
0:20 in florida when it rains while the sun is out we say "the devil's beatin' his wife" so you arent alone in those ridiculous weather terms
Ian I'm in Florida and know that idiom. Confirmed. Haha
There's another technique used when a jump-cut is considered undesirable. It's a jump crop, or a crop cut. Where you go from framing the person's torso, to framing their face (or vice versa). That one is very effective, and very aesthetically pleasing.
it's lame
It's SO refreshing to here the "Bill's mother's" reference spoken by someone else. I was beginning to think it was just me...I love how "local" some sayings can be, say that literally just 5 miles from the Notts Border and it is like you've suddenly started talking a different language!
At my high school, they used green screen for their video class, and one of the members of the video class ended up using what he learned for a project him and I did. It seemed pretty easy to do...until midway through the video 3/4 of my face turned into the tropical island background we were using.
The book Tom mentions that Gretchen McCollough was working on is out now, it's called Because Internet and available everywhere!
'this video is edited terribly accidentally on purpose'
_generic bar piano jingle_
Number one...
(I hope someone gets this Element Animation reference, it's six years old)
I am not british, but I still got the Morph Cut joke.
The series was broadcasted in other countries as well, so it could be an international reference.
Imagine the brain break if the video ended by revealing that the background had, in fact, been green screen all along.
I love that Tom has done a bunch of Language Files videos since this video came out. There was a notable gap obviously and they were all made with Gretchen McCulloch.
I found once I started making longer videos with more edits that I started to appreciate the time and effort that some people put into their videos.
In aviation, we call gating (is that how you spell it?) "Squelch". Because airplane engines are loud, pilot and copilot talk to each other through their headsets. Our hands are busy and we don't want to press a button, so we use "Squelch", or as you call it, "Gating". When you aren't talking, the mic doesn't transmit, but as soon as the noise level rises (I.E. you start talking), it starts transmitting to the other headsets. We still get that cutting in and out sound and after eight hours it starts to get very annoying.
And on Discord (voice chat often used by gamers) we call it "not push-to-talk." Usually, the volume gate is set low, and I believe there's a bit of delay before it closes, so ideally it won't cut between words- it will only cut when you finish talking.
Of course, _ideally_ we've got less noise than you would have in an airplane, but there's always that one person...
"The noise level rises aka you're talking" 😁
Little late to the party, but that's vox, rather than squelch. Squelch is on the listening side, your radio doesn't start playing the audio until the incoming signal is louder than a certain theshold.
Do those mics use any attack/release? I feel like 70ms of both might make it a bit nicer to listen to, instead of the audio instantly cutting on/off
Thumbs up just for the Morph joke.
Art Attack was Awesome
+Jordan Reeve I thought morph was on smart.
Art Attack *was* awesome, but Morph was from SMart. Which was also awesome btw.
+xereeto vintage cbbc 😄😄😄
CWrathall1994 your god dam right My bad
Matt survived that morph cut really well. The edge of his left sleeve was the only collateral damage.
I got the morph joke.
Also, I found out about you two through the confetti video... best click ever.
For the record, I got the joke.
I did too
i got it also
Same
I also got it, but i didn't think it was very funny
me too
If you watch the trailer for Star Wars Episode III, in the scene where Vader is on the table his arms are up by his head, but in the film they are by his sides. If you look you can see his hands move in an odd way to match up to the original position when he breaks the chains. That was fantastic morphing that people don't really give the team credit for especially given when it was done.
"I'm not doing any more language files videos."
Yeah, about that.
8:20 it's uncomfortable that it almost feels natural... It's like demonic, it moves in such a way that isn't physically possible but feels like the motion was consciously created by a living being.... Makes me wonder if this is why Tom doesn't seem to age much, he cut his hair and such but does he actually ever look different? No. Tom is not of this world, this realm, this plane of 3 dimensional space...
If you guys want another linguistics channel along with TheLingSpace, I recommend Xidnaf and Artifexian as well. Xidnaf has done videos on Thai, Hangul and other writing systems as well as the development of language in history, and Artifexian does world-building videos and occasionally language videos where he's creating his own language. Go check them out
NativLang is awesome.
Your language files are brilliant. Will alway appreciate them. (cough cough patreon) I'd pay you to be creative in any way you see fit.
The weather over Northwestern Europe has just been making its opinions on Brexit very clear in the last few days...
Yep and I was doing a bronze duke of Edinburgh in that storm on flooded paths
My drink froze in my sleeping bag doing that, in april, 5 years ago.
south has been slightly milder. can only assume scotland been having sunshine for once.
Listening to your example of the gating effect made me appreciate the work you two put into your videos, because I hear that god-awful sound on so many other videos and didn't realize what the problem was. Audio is king!
tom, I would be proud of you if you got sponsorship and did a really awesome video series!
The butterfly that flew across the frame at 7:34 when you were talking about morph (hur hur plasticine) cuts freaked me the hell out
I was going to triumphantly proclaim that I got the Morph joke, but then I read the comments
How I love these meta /demonstration/behind the scenes videos
its really weird watching all of toms videos and never being recommended these type videos and now going through them all afterwards
If you are having problems with spill from a greenscreen on your subject you can backlight them with CT minus green. These gels remove the green wavelengths from the light (giving them a slightly magenta hue), so that when combined with the green light on the subject they mix to make white.
I really enjoy watching the linguistics videos, it's what hooked me up to Tom Scott and later Matt and Tom. That's why I find it sad there aren't more of them but I of course I understand
Well..
In Essex I've heard the phrase "By Will's mother's" referring to bad weather on the way.
RUclips's getting good at recommending videos to me. It suggested this one today, when I've been taking my first, tentative steps into editing a video. I was starting to feel like I'd spent so much time on it, for doing relatively little, and was wondering if I'd get faster with practise; so the comments on how long it takes you to do stuff turned out to be just what I wanted to hear ^_^ I get the impression that once I get used to it I'll be doing things _better_, but not really taking any time over it.
If there’s a lot of cutting, about 3 hours per 5 minutes.
Tom, we'll love ya even if you do paid and sponsored stuff. :) You deserve to make money for the fun you provide.
Loved the section on audio. reminds me of the work I have done on audio for my high school Drama Club
Tom Scott: Compatible with blue screens and green screens.
Thanks for the channel recommendation, I missed those old language files videos.
Check out NativLang, too.
12:13 Oh my god, was that a Beardyman Beatboxing Chef reference? That's stirred something deep in the recesses of my formative internet years...
no, we used to say that about the weather in Nidderdale..
I do appreciate the little extra effort you guys put into these videos. I think it puts you one step above the standard vlogger. its also interesting to see the kind of work you put into your other videos.
What does it signify if one did indeed get the Morph joke?
young enough to have watched ArtAttack in Britain when they re-ran(?) some of it? :P
Edit: Apparently it was SMART, the BBC copy of AA that has more recently shown some morph :P
SMart actually ;) loved that show..before one of the hosts killed himself. True story
really? poor guy
You just brought up a very old memory, Art Attack!
That was an awesome show, they aired a few episodes on Egyptian Local TV here, and I recorded a few on our VCR :D
Edit: I remember the episode where at the very end they got two giant pendulum things, big paint jar with a hole at the bottom hanging with a long rope, and they swung the jar in random directions, and it drew some abstract art on the giant canvas below :)
His name was Mark Speight, if you're interested!
I got the Morph joke as it popped into my head at that point too.
It looked so weird when the green screen finally turned off and things where just normal…
Nonunfortunately Morph and everything AARDMAN made it here to Australia.
Morph was my favourite part of that art show. Well I liked the gallery music, wish I could recall it.
"im not making any more language files"
*presses X to doubt*
It took me a while to realize that when you were talking about audio, you were using the effect and it wasn't my tablet or RUclips screwing up.... I'm a little slow, but I'm glad you demonstrated!
6:03 comic sans warning
You guys never disappoint
Not doing any more language files, eh? Guess her finishing her book changed that a bit. I'm overjoyed.
My secondary school was constructed in 2012 opened 2013 and had a green screen studio sadly someone messed up with the green screen measurements and with and little bit of floor was correct but somehow hight became total length including the floor bit so they raised it up a bit and the floor section was srunk and the seem that would be between wall and floor is about mid thigh and the screen a foot from the ceiling. it also has a nice shinny air duct running down on the of the room right where you would want to stand
50 shades of green. I need that.
Thanks for sharing the Lingfiles channel, I've been wanting to learn more about Linguistics.
I really enjoyed your language files videos. Thank you. They will be missed.
My family use the same weather saying, but 'Will' instead of 'Bill', but... same difference.
I have two ideas for future videos.
1. Suggestions for sites to see around England, not just London like a previous video of yours.
2. You and some travel buddies talking about your favorite cuisine both inside and outside of the UK.
Aw. I did love the language files videos, but I totally understand why they don't happen anymore. Definitely going to check out the Ling space!
This video is brilliant- nature hit it's cues right on time.
The video I was watching directly before this one was Morph - Windmill.
I love the editing in this video.
I thought I was watching Matt and Tom's Park bench, but then things turned all LSD space-y. With cats.
I go back to this video every time Tom makes a new language video
I've edited videos on a hobbyist basis for the last few years. Totally understand where you're coming from on editing effort. When all goes well, it takes about 10x the time to edit the video as it takes to watch the video. Then you add graphics and green screen... infinite time.
Tom: "No one's going to get that joke.".
Me: *Puts hand up* I got that joke.
When you said nobody would get the morph joke I was just smiling to myself 😂
“A morph cut.”
“Is that for when you use plasticine characters?”
“No one is going to get the joke.”
I am no one.
Sorry it took three years for someone to understand.
Typed out I get it too- I didn't hear him properly
What is the joke
@@iriscandy6377 a show called morph- Google it u might find a clip then it will.make sense why it's relevant
Nah there's an old comment saying they got the joke
Morph was amazing
"over bills mothers" I was told this is a reference to Statford, bill being Shakespeare and Stratford (from Coventry in Warwickshire)
but that's a little way away from Nottingham
A channel about linguistics. Heaven. Thanks for the link Tom, I will be checking them out presently.
I got the morph cut reference Matt. I appreciated it
Very informative about the cutaways!
I'm an Australian, and we had Morph over there. I don't remember much about it, but we definitely had it.
can we have tom scott does the weather?
Don't worry Matt,I understood the Morph joke!
Not doing a linguistics video again?
What was that video I saw you post yesterday
Just shows what a couple years does
Tom mentioned adding compression to help remove the noise in the background. That would actually have the opposite effect, adding compression and raising the output gain to compensate raises the noise floor and would actually make the problem worse.
Also, when using an audio gate, you can improve the ON/OFF switch effect by decreasing the range so it turn it down by say 10/15dB and not off, then you don't get the cut off. You can also set the hold and release on the gate to be slightly slower, then it will fade off not cut off.... Don't know why I'm telling Matt this, I'm sure he already knows this stuff, but I guess it's more for other people who might want to find out more.
We say "It's a bit black o'er Bill's mother's" in the Black Country too! (Bill is William Shakespeare, apparently thunderstorms originate in Stratford-upon-Avon)
That is one fantastic green screen guys. Good job.
"Bit black o'er Bill's mother's" was pretty commonly used in north Derbyshire when I was a child, too.
You could’ve noticed but you know it’s green because we don’t wear green because of the bear pattern on the chip causing green to have approximately two times the resolution of the red and green channels
If the green screen is slightly convex would that reduce the amount of green glow everywhere? Also I imagine the floor and ceiling, and everything close to the green screen should be black, not just nonshiny; as long as they don't need to be visible.
For ambient noise, can you record it separate and subtract that sound in post production? Kind of like how directional mics work.
If the screen is slightly convex then it's going to be harder to light it so that it appears uniform.
2019 : her book is out!
And Language Files are back.
… so there’s a new Language Files video out
Tom, I'm from the future. You DO make more Language Files videos. They are still just as hard to edit. Good luck!
6:05 that really should have said sample text
Some filipinos call that (when the sun is out while thunderclouds are still there or when the sun is out while its still raining) "may kinakasal na tikbalang". Which means that two tikbalangs (filipino mythical creature, think minotaur with a horse head instead of a bull)
are getting married.
"Ah, bollocks" -crash sound effect with the outro-
What about active noise cancellation? I know there's a setting in Audition that can eliminate most noise, and if you fiddle with it enough, you can get it to a point where you don't sound too robotic.
As someone from Shropshire, that "Black over Bill's mother's" is something I've heard as a child.
I thought the end of this was gonna be you two getting up and walking away, then all the effects fade out and it turns out you were sitting on a green box in a green-screen studio the entire time :P
7:34 Yay, I'm not the only one who gets weird reactions to making that reference.