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The vocal harmonies in particular were great. Really splendid job fella, enjoyed that a lot!!
(shameless plug: be great to see that talent in the lockdown cover challenge...)
Who knew slide ukelele and duck percussion were even things!
I really must get my head around this recordign malarky.
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Great job. And I'm so envious of anyone who can sing, my voice is just unusable.
How much is Studio One? is it hard to learn. I'm not good with new stuff ...
I'm just off to cry in the corner, with or without my religion
The video actually came together easier than I thought it would. I'd just been recording it on my phone as I recorded, then when I looked at the folder of 20-something vids it felt a bit like I'd never be able to work out how to put it all together.
But... in Premiere Pro (for that is what I arbitrarily subscribed to a couple of years back) I just started dragging the videos into the timeline, lining them up with the mixed audio which is a surprisingly easy job since you can see the peaks etc on the mixed audio and live phone video audio (which is obviously then just muted and removed from the timeline), and just going from there.
At the start it was easy... you just have that first video, occupying the whole screen. Then I knew the cabasa was just a minor thing the whole way through, so it made sense just to give it an inset box rather than shift the acoustic guitar video. Then the slide guitar enters... and it just made sense to mirror the cabasa's inset window idea to make it symmetrical. Then at the same time, the lead vocal & two harmonies enter. And at that point I realised that the layout would shift at fixed points - they were basically scenes informed by the size and shape of the musical arrangement at any given point, and somethings were important (lead vocal) and other things were incidental (cabasa, tambourine etc) and could just be shifted round to make room for other things.
It got complicated at points, because Premiere Pro's tools for scaling, positioning, cropping clips etc aren't very intuitive. But the basic workflow was simple - without the video playing, I just had it sat on a given moment in each scene and moved all the clips in view around so they all fit on the screen and worked together. Layering made it easier - if a video is on the top layer it's really important that all 4 corners are positioned correctly (unless any corners are beyond the edge of the screen, then it doesn't matter). But if a video is not on the top layer, its edges are obscured by any neighbouring video that's on a higher layer than it. So... all that really mattered was that the exposed edges were carefully positioned to create a grid that wasn't wonky, and that the video was scaled appropriately so that you could make out what was happening. I realised that the horrific sight of loads of me meant that you didn't need to see my head in every clip, which made it much easier because I could just zoom in on the instrument/ hands in some of them.
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I saw a YouTuber talking about making vids the other day: it's a very strange pursuit to spend eight hours a day seeing and hearing your own 'talking head' right in front of you
On a practical note, how much raw footage did you generate...and does that all get imported to the video project...and what's the final size of the project?