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# melted crayon art: a music video for "texel"
- URL: https://wootangent.net/melted-crayon-art-a-music-video-for-texel/
- Published: 2011-11-17T08:46:52.000Z
- Updated: 2011-11-17T08:46:52.000Z
- Author: Leigh Dyer
- Tags: Linux, Music, Video, 550d, canon, crayon art, kdenlive, music video, #Migrated-1792830072870, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 08:21

The internet says that you can do awesome things with [crayons, glue, a canvas, and a heat gun](http://www.instructables.com/id/Melted-Crayon-Art/?ref=wootangent.net), and my wife did exactly that on the weekend, with very colourful results. I figured the dripping wax might look cool on film (or on an SD card, rather), so I grabbed the camera, and as it turned out, it looked *awesome*:

The music is my most recent track, [Texel](https://wootangent.net/new-track-texel/), which seemed like a good match for the video. It was all shot with a hand-held Canon 550D and a 50mm f/1.8 lens, hence the shakiness -- it took some time to go through all of the video and find the usable bits, where the camera was both steady and in focus.

I used Kdenlive to edit it all together, and I'm glad to say that it was much more solid than it was during my [last video editing project](https://wootangent.net/music-video-frozen-summer/). In particular, it automatically cropped the extra lines out of the 550D's 1920x1088 files, so I didn't need to transcode anything. I didn't apply much processing this time, which may have helped -- there's just a few simple transitions and some colour correction work.

Kdenlive's ability to use proxy clips -- small, low-resolution copies of your original high-res clips that are used during editing -- helped keep the preview playback smooth while editing. The original clips are used while rendering the video, though, so the proxy clips don't affect the final output quality.