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Can I please politely ask that if you are interested in watching the video, could you click on the link so that it actually opens in YouTube rather than watching it on here - as we are currently not sure that any views made on here actually contribute to the overall YouTube video view count - many thanks.
The video is at bottom of post... please scroll down if you don't want to read the detail of how we made it.
Well, despite my personal circumstances, I have been kept busy recently by Heather wanting to record music and Shannon wanting to record videos. So... having made many audio recordings, I decided to take the plunge and have a go at making my first video to accompany a recording Shannon made. This is my very first attempt... and given that some people here will no doubt have much more experience at making videos, and others perhaps might wish to find out how to do this themselves, I thought I'd try to share a little about the process and how we went about making it. Was lots of fun I must admit, and I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would.
Something Shan has wanted to do for some time is to record a song then make a music video to accompany it and to then post it on YouTube for all her family and friends to see what she is capable of - this was not only my first attempt at video and editing, but it was her first attempt at recording singing plus her playing the guitar too (she has only been playing guitar for 3 months!). I have some good quality audio recording kit in my home studio, and I'm able to make a decent quality recording, so we recorded Shan playing the guitar and singing to this all in the evening prior to going out the following day with the camera. Each section of audio (vocal and guitar) sits on its own track which then allows me to amend the individual levels and EQ etc. accordingly. I then put the music track on my iPhone so that I could play this at the same time as I was recording the video - so that we could get lip sync correct etc! For all my audio recording, mixing and final EQ... I use LogicPro on Mac.
For all of the video work I used the Oly E-5 together with the Oly 14-54mm lens, all handheld, and all edited with iMovie on my Mac. Admittedly I made loads of mistakes, and even have some sections of the song where I didn't manage to capture Shannon singing at all and so had to 'fill in' on the video with clips of her strumming her guitar or walking/sitting etc - I'll know for next time! We recorded all the material in about 3 hours and at two different locations, I then spent many hours putting it all together - something which I enjoyed immensely and will most certainly do again - but next time I will have the benefit of having attempted it previously, and thus knowing what mistakes not to make a second time. The E-5 of course records audio too, but by using any decent movie editing software it is an easy task to split out the recorded audio from the video, and then to use the pre-recorded audio fro the night before as the master audio track. Doing this enabled Shannon to pretty accurately sing to the actual audio track we intended to use in the final version. This is what I did in this case - though I did make a mistake or two in forgetting to remove the camera-recorded-audio in one or two places. iMovie allows accurate precision in aligning the video to audio, and after spending some time learning how to do this I seemed to get a little better at it.
All in all it was a super day, and this is what we came up with - Shannon singing, playing guitar and featuring in her very first video, her cover of Your Song.
NOTE: If you do intend to watch this, as I mention earlier please would you kindly watch it on YouTube by clicking the link below - and not here on eGroup - as we are not sure if the 'likes' are incremented for any views made on here - and obviously Shannon is trying to get her view count up, bless her
I appreciate I made many mistakes, focus, effects, scenes etc can all be improved... but as I said this was my very first attempt at making a video and we did it all, from nothing. All suggestions, comments and feedback, together with any likes, views and comments on YouTube are always very much appreciated. Thanks all.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_XB8d1Y32w[/ame]
Can I please politely ask that if you are interested in watching the video, could you click on the link so that it actually opens in YouTube rather than watching it on here - as we are currently not sure that any views made on here actually contribute to the overall YouTube video view count - many thanks.
The video is at bottom of post... please scroll down if you don't want to read the detail of how we made it.
Well, despite my personal circumstances, I have been kept busy recently by Heather wanting to record music and Shannon wanting to record videos. So... having made many audio recordings, I decided to take the plunge and have a go at making my first video to accompany a recording Shannon made. This is my very first attempt... and given that some people here will no doubt have much more experience at making videos, and others perhaps might wish to find out how to do this themselves, I thought I'd try to share a little about the process and how we went about making it. Was lots of fun I must admit, and I enjoyed it far more than I thought I would.
Something Shan has wanted to do for some time is to record a song then make a music video to accompany it and to then post it on YouTube for all her family and friends to see what she is capable of - this was not only my first attempt at video and editing, but it was her first attempt at recording singing plus her playing the guitar too (she has only been playing guitar for 3 months!). I have some good quality audio recording kit in my home studio, and I'm able to make a decent quality recording, so we recorded Shan playing the guitar and singing to this all in the evening prior to going out the following day with the camera. Each section of audio (vocal and guitar) sits on its own track which then allows me to amend the individual levels and EQ etc. accordingly. I then put the music track on my iPhone so that I could play this at the same time as I was recording the video - so that we could get lip sync correct etc! For all my audio recording, mixing and final EQ... I use LogicPro on Mac.
For all of the video work I used the Oly E-5 together with the Oly 14-54mm lens, all handheld, and all edited with iMovie on my Mac. Admittedly I made loads of mistakes, and even have some sections of the song where I didn't manage to capture Shannon singing at all and so had to 'fill in' on the video with clips of her strumming her guitar or walking/sitting etc - I'll know for next time! We recorded all the material in about 3 hours and at two different locations, I then spent many hours putting it all together - something which I enjoyed immensely and will most certainly do again - but next time I will have the benefit of having attempted it previously, and thus knowing what mistakes not to make a second time. The E-5 of course records audio too, but by using any decent movie editing software it is an easy task to split out the recorded audio from the video, and then to use the pre-recorded audio fro the night before as the master audio track. Doing this enabled Shannon to pretty accurately sing to the actual audio track we intended to use in the final version. This is what I did in this case - though I did make a mistake or two in forgetting to remove the camera-recorded-audio in one or two places. iMovie allows accurate precision in aligning the video to audio, and after spending some time learning how to do this I seemed to get a little better at it.
All in all it was a super day, and this is what we came up with - Shannon singing, playing guitar and featuring in her very first video, her cover of Your Song.
NOTE: If you do intend to watch this, as I mention earlier please would you kindly watch it on YouTube by clicking the link below - and not here on eGroup - as we are not sure if the 'likes' are incremented for any views made on here - and obviously Shannon is trying to get her view count up, bless her
I appreciate I made many mistakes, focus, effects, scenes etc can all be improved... but as I said this was my very first attempt at making a video and we did it all, from nothing. All suggestions, comments and feedback, together with any likes, views and comments on YouTube are always very much appreciated. Thanks all.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_XB8d1Y32w[/ame]
! I can honestly say that Shannon is quite conscious of her 'chestal area' and I made attempts not to feature this in the video much at all. Serious question... nobody else has mentioned this to me or to Shan, but does it really seem like that Stephen?
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