Michael Buble's "Everything"

[drathbun]

Well it took me a while to mix this video together over the holidays, but now it is done! I played around with a few new video techniques on this one, employing the "PiP" feature (Picture in Picture). Once you get past five or six video tracks, the computer really starts to groan. It crashed numerous times, taking my work with it.

 

I'm playing the SJ200, my Rick 4003 bass and my little Edirol PCR-M1 for the lead piano bits. Some of the video parts I recorded to my DAW while recording the video on my phone, but others were synchronized overdubs. It is a lot of fun but it had me up until 4am one night!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vxby1iTw_k&list=UUbT6bph6TcR-6ByiXzU3RYg&index=1&feature=plcp

 

Recording DAW: Sonar X1

Mixed with: Sony SoundForge

Video Editing and Mixing: Cyberlink PowerDirector 9

Camera: iPhone4

Microphone: Apex 435 Large Diaphragm Condenser

[BluesKing777]

Great!

 

Well done - again....

 

 

Apart from playing the song in all its parts, you have the video production going, don't you? What a lot of work you do - don't you have any friends to come and play the bass and piano? Kidding!!!!

 

I 'dabbled' in video production like that on my Mac, so I have an idea of how much you have put into this. I did some PiP as well about 3 years ago and I think it is still processing down there in the back room. Real filebusters, eh? You can see the next step as new Mac with QuadCore in triplicate and 40 Hexabomb storage or whatever they are selling now. Once you buy all that, you could experiment with bringing the 'current voice' video to the main page and fade away to the guitar solo.....and fast-paced switching...endless.

 

The video is all your iPhone? What a good job they do.

 

Again, very well done.

 

 

Bluesking777.

 

 

[Tman]

Excellent!

[blindboygrunt]

whole lotta work went into that . worth the effort , great job

anyone tell you your voice is a lot like warren zevons?

[drathbun]

whole lotta work went into that . worth the effort , great job

anyone tell you your voice is a lot like warren zevons?

 

Thanks for all the kind comments. And, yes, I've been told about the Warren Zevon similarity before! Perhaps I should cover "Werewolves in London"?

[drathbun]

Great!

 

Well done - again....

 

 

Apart from playing the song in all its parts, you have the video production going, don't you? What a lot of work you do - don't you have any friends to come and play the bass and piano? Kidding!!!!

 

I 'dabbled' in video production like that on my Mac, so I have an idea of how much you have put into this. I did some PiP as well about 3 years ago and I think it is still processing down there in the back room. Real filebusters, eh? You can see the next step as new Mac with QuadCore in triplicate and 40 Hexabomb storage or whatever they are selling now. Once you buy all that, you could experiment with bringing the 'current voice' video to the main page and fade away to the guitar solo.....and fast-paced switching...endless.

 

The video is all your iPhone? What a good job they do.

 

Again, very well done.

 

 

Bluesking777.

 

Thanks BK. I'm totally amazed at the quality of the iPhone's video and image camera. The audio isn't terrific but the vid/image is entirely acceptable for this kind of work. I have a little iPhone clip that fits on a tiny tripod I have for the desktop or my regular tripod. Taking the video and getting to the computer is a snap. The editing is a good deal of work but having a background in audio editing makes the learning curve a lot easier. Next video I'll play with the effects which allow the PiP video to travel across the screen and fade etc. My 32bit Win7 platform is struggling a bit so perhaps when the next desktop come along this will get easier.

[livemusic]

Wow, Doug, that's quite amazing! Your playing and singing and videography are super! You are one talented fellow. What you just did there is something I wish I could do.

 

And your Gibson sounds great!

[drathbun]

Wow, Doug, that's quite amazing! Your playing and singing and videography are super! You are one talented fellow. What you just did there is something I wish I could do.

 

And your Gibson sounds great!

 

Thanks so much! :) The most difficult part of the whole project is organizing it from the start. I'll start with the audio project and then as I'm finalizing the audio mix, I'll lay down some vocal and instrument takes while I have the iPhone set up to get the video. Then it is a matter of just matching up the audio from the audio project to the audio from the iPhone. After I've sync'd them up in my video editing program I can just toss the audio from the iPhone and use the processed Sonar audio track instead.

 

Once I figure out how to do that rather than try to make the video AFTER recording and mixing... then it became a lot simpler. The video program is actually fairly easy to use; drag and drop and fade in and fade out stuff.