[sdiy] making videos, was:modular meet/London & vids et al (was: open letter to Aaron Lanterman)

[Ingo Debus]

Am 07.05.2010 um 20:26 schrieb Paul Burns:

> If you can, some cameras will allow an external input , so
> in editing you can dip the ambient sound, boost the external input,  
> which
> will obviously improve things... a good upmarket camera will have  
> two XLR
> inputs , so using an external mic and an input from a mixing desk  
> works for
> me...

Another option is to record the sound separately with some digital  
recording equipment (has to be digital, otherwise it will get out of  
sync with the video). I did this with a video from our 2008 synth DIY  
meeting:
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/meeting_2008/movie_web/Session1_web.mov

The sound was recorded with a MiniDisc recorder, directly from the  
mixing desk. I started the MD much earlier than the camera, that's  
why there are so many photos at the beginning. The sound quality is  
quite good, but of course there's no ambient sound at all. We'll  
never know what Frank and René are talking about ;-)

I had a hard time participating in that jam session and operating the  
camera the same time :-) You don't see me live playing on the video  
except a glimpse of my feet stepping on the bass pedal.

I did all the splicing of the video, the photos and the audio with  
Apple iMovie, obviously not intended for that kind of job. After all  
the work was done I realised that the 10 minutes limit of youtube was  
exceeded by far. Thanks again to Florian for hosting the stuff. To  
compare the sound quality, the other videos are recorded with the  
camera's built-in microphone:
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/meeting_2008/movie_web/

Thanks for listening/watching!

Ingo