Friday, January 1, 2016

"The Sanctuary Song" Take 3 - Recorded and Rendered

Another five millimeters and Take 3 would have gone over the outfield wall but the punchline right away is there will be a Take 4.

Yevette said it was excellent as it is so it was that close to going online.

The cameras worked much better from changing the angles and also shanghaiing the the computer to use its built-in camera as well.  That gave four lenses plus another track catching the audio from the mixer.

All that recording made about ten gigabytes of content going into Final Cut but it all synced quickly and the edits didn't take so long after.  The edits are when I chop one track or another to set whichever camera angle I want for that part of the song.  Four viewpoints give much more flexibility to the edits and that adds a whole lot of interest by changing them from one to another.

To do Take 4, it's possible a fifth camera can come into it because the laptop has one built-in.  I would love to position a camera in the light rack to look out on the same plane as the lasers but finding a safe way to put the laptop up there without trashing it or crashing my corpus in trying could be a formidable trick.

(Ed:  you're sixty-five, Alphonse!)

Fuck that!  I need a camera up there.  That viewpoint could really be killin'.

(Ed:  yah, killin' is right when the laptop falls down from there, lands on yer dummkopf, and croaks both of you.)

After that laptop has survived so much, it would practically be sacrilege to crack it up now.  Even so, if there's a way, must try it.  If only I had a home welding kit, right.

(Ed:  do you know how to weld things?)

I don't consider knowing how to do something a significant criterion in deciding whether to do it.

(Ed:  hence, the motorcycle crashes?)

Quite so.

(Ed:  aren't you banned from using power tools, sharp objects, or hazardous materials in most states of the Union?)

Yah, but not Texas.  Down here if you have a gun then anything is legal.

(Ed:  you don't have a gun)

Nope ... but I got lasers.  If I fire the 300 mW Blue Meanie at a gunner, he won't have any idea what to shoot because he won't have any chance of seeing it.


So, Take 3 did go much better and was one swell way to start up a New Year but I still want to see a Take 4.  Each one has been so close musically that judging whether it goes or it blows is getting more and more a philosophical thing.  Is it surreal enough as if there's any measure of realism.  It's a mandatory design goal there mustn't be any effects added in Final Cut.  The surrealism has to be (cough) real.

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