It must look like a lot of yap but there is action behind it and tonight was peaches all round. "The Sanctuary Song" was captured on three cameras and one standalone audio track. This was with the full boat effects, all lasers and smoke.
All of that has been loaded into Final Cut and the video tracks were nearly eight gigabytes. Audio doesn't matter because it's tiny next to that and was only 250 megabytes or so.
So, definitely not just yap. This is what it looks like in Final Cut:
Those are the three new video tracks in blue and the new audio track in green. The bumps underneath the images are the representation of the audio wave form for each track and maybe you can see how they line up. This is how I sync one track to another and there are much better ways if you have kit to do it but this technique is highly accurate if you're patient enough with it.
Note: the above is not perfectly synced and I'll magnify the view as much as necessary to satisfy myself they are as aligned as well as they can be. It bugs the living hell out of my when the audio and video are out of sync because that gives fingers moving but they're not playing the notes you're hearing. Unacceptable.
The task yet pending is to edit the video tracks to choose which camera view works best for any given moment. It's an arduous task but hugely entertaining in seeing the thing evolve.
To the left is the last clip from the into part of "The End of the World in Fort Worth" and the new tracks, after I edit them, will be moved left to overlap to make the transition from the story line into the song. I'm really confident that will flow well and I'm curious as hell to see it ... but ... that will likely have to wait until tomorrow. Passion and mania will take it a long way but eventually a bit of sleep is not such a bad idea.
All of that has been loaded into Final Cut and the video tracks were nearly eight gigabytes. Audio doesn't matter because it's tiny next to that and was only 250 megabytes or so.
So, definitely not just yap. This is what it looks like in Final Cut:
Those are the three new video tracks in blue and the new audio track in green. The bumps underneath the images are the representation of the audio wave form for each track and maybe you can see how they line up. This is how I sync one track to another and there are much better ways if you have kit to do it but this technique is highly accurate if you're patient enough with it.
Note: the above is not perfectly synced and I'll magnify the view as much as necessary to satisfy myself they are as aligned as well as they can be. It bugs the living hell out of my when the audio and video are out of sync because that gives fingers moving but they're not playing the notes you're hearing. Unacceptable.
The task yet pending is to edit the video tracks to choose which camera view works best for any given moment. It's an arduous task but hugely entertaining in seeing the thing evolve.
To the left is the last clip from the into part of "The End of the World in Fort Worth" and the new tracks, after I edit them, will be moved left to overlap to make the transition from the story line into the song. I'm really confident that will flow well and I'm curious as hell to see it ... but ... that will likely have to wait until tomorrow. Passion and mania will take it a long way but eventually a bit of sleep is not such a bad idea.
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