The problem to solve is how to hang a laptop computer from a light rack so it can record video on the same plane as the lasers.
The first thought was to attach it to the rack with bungee cords or Velcro or some such but that's way too flimsy.
The next one is to find a metal tray big enough for the laptop to sit on it and then drill holes in four corners. A few coat hangers would be enough to hang it from the rack. The tray would not be able to get loose because the end of the coat hanger would be bent so it wouldn't fit back through the hole.
This is redneck construction from so far South I learned it from penguins. In fact, after growing up in Sydney, you couldn't spend your childhood any more to the South unless you really are a penguin.
What that mount gains is the ability to put the laptop on the tray and then the top of it can move to aim its camera.
After some study, there doesn't appear to be anything even a far South redneck would try to mount the laptop to the stand or attach it to one of the lasers. There are various attachment devices to mount laptops on just about anything but they're usually expensive.
Therefore ... improvise.
That thinking kicked off something else because the iPad has a camera as well. With all of this kit engaged, that will yield six camera viewpoints. That may seem a mission for self-adoration but I saw from the edits of Take 3, when I have four camera viewpoints I can use then I will definitely use all of them. Switching back and forth creates much higher visual and musical interest.
There are dramatic cuts going from one camera to another in which there is no transition. When that happens in sync with the music, it can add high drama. For the current video, it's more often my purpose to use slow dissolves from one viewpoint to another to keep a flow going but fast edits can strongly support the rhythm and the changes so they're a big part of this as well.
The other solution to the problem is to get another action cam for about $150 because it would be simple and easy to mount one on the rack. See above about too expensive. The existing action cam is needed on my head because I notice my head moves around like Stevie Wonder when I'm playing some fast trills and that looks kind of cool getting all tripped-out with the lasers. Yevette said that made her a bit seasick and maybe it would be better to use that clip at 50% or more transparency so it gives the hint of it. That costs zooks in render time, tho.
Note: the iMac is killin' for this. Trying to do this on the laptop would have melted it but Final Cut Pro on the iMac is brisk and really gets it done.
There's some dithering on recording tonight because another camera viewpoint would be cool and two would be extremely cool. That's achievable but how much musical loss of focus to get tangled up with hardware.
Recording in available light (i.e. no lasers) of "Shakin' It in a Tree" for Bernie Sanders is going to wait. I know how it goes and it won't get lost. Must keep focus on "The Sanctuary Song" and it's sooooo dayum close.
The song is NOT being nitpicked for impossible perfectionism and I was talking with Cadillac Man last night, that perfection is impossible. The Perfect Ideal may be something which is only attainable by gods. Photographing orchids is part of the thinking because, no matter how perfectly beautiful the orchid, there was always the tiniest imperfection.
This may seem quite a bit of wasted time in writing but the consideration prior to doing it is not wasted. To record a ten-minute video of the song will be five hours or more from start of recording to edited video delivered. Before I start, it has to be dayum clear what I will do. That thinking must uncover something which I believe will make a substantive difference between this time and the last or five hours will be wasted.
(Ed: cowbell?)
Not this time, Cowboy Bob.
The first thought was to attach it to the rack with bungee cords or Velcro or some such but that's way too flimsy.
The next one is to find a metal tray big enough for the laptop to sit on it and then drill holes in four corners. A few coat hangers would be enough to hang it from the rack. The tray would not be able to get loose because the end of the coat hanger would be bent so it wouldn't fit back through the hole.
This is redneck construction from so far South I learned it from penguins. In fact, after growing up in Sydney, you couldn't spend your childhood any more to the South unless you really are a penguin.
What that mount gains is the ability to put the laptop on the tray and then the top of it can move to aim its camera.
After some study, there doesn't appear to be anything even a far South redneck would try to mount the laptop to the stand or attach it to one of the lasers. There are various attachment devices to mount laptops on just about anything but they're usually expensive.
Therefore ... improvise.
That thinking kicked off something else because the iPad has a camera as well. With all of this kit engaged, that will yield six camera viewpoints. That may seem a mission for self-adoration but I saw from the edits of Take 3, when I have four camera viewpoints I can use then I will definitely use all of them. Switching back and forth creates much higher visual and musical interest.
There are dramatic cuts going from one camera to another in which there is no transition. When that happens in sync with the music, it can add high drama. For the current video, it's more often my purpose to use slow dissolves from one viewpoint to another to keep a flow going but fast edits can strongly support the rhythm and the changes so they're a big part of this as well.
The other solution to the problem is to get another action cam for about $150 because it would be simple and easy to mount one on the rack. See above about too expensive. The existing action cam is needed on my head because I notice my head moves around like Stevie Wonder when I'm playing some fast trills and that looks kind of cool getting all tripped-out with the lasers. Yevette said that made her a bit seasick and maybe it would be better to use that clip at 50% or more transparency so it gives the hint of it. That costs zooks in render time, tho.
Note: the iMac is killin' for this. Trying to do this on the laptop would have melted it but Final Cut Pro on the iMac is brisk and really gets it done.
There's some dithering on recording tonight because another camera viewpoint would be cool and two would be extremely cool. That's achievable but how much musical loss of focus to get tangled up with hardware.
Recording in available light (i.e. no lasers) of "Shakin' It in a Tree" for Bernie Sanders is going to wait. I know how it goes and it won't get lost. Must keep focus on "The Sanctuary Song" and it's sooooo dayum close.
The song is NOT being nitpicked for impossible perfectionism and I was talking with Cadillac Man last night, that perfection is impossible. The Perfect Ideal may be something which is only attainable by gods. Photographing orchids is part of the thinking because, no matter how perfectly beautiful the orchid, there was always the tiniest imperfection.
This may seem quite a bit of wasted time in writing but the consideration prior to doing it is not wasted. To record a ten-minute video of the song will be five hours or more from start of recording to edited video delivered. Before I start, it has to be dayum clear what I will do. That thinking must uncover something which I believe will make a substantive difference between this time and the last or five hours will be wasted.
(Ed: cowbell?)
Not this time, Cowboy Bob.
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