Thanks, good thing I had a lot of experience figuring things out on Haley's vids, first
Even with a Monopod, I have to be better with my camera movements, would take a few minutes off the time putting the vids together.
I use a Canon Rebel 5i w/ a 55 mm ST lens. Turned out it was good my Zoom lens wasn't ST (ST lenses are quieter when focusing so the camera mic won't hear it), because using the wider lens in addition to the above average resolution allowed me space to move around the scene
As far as the sound quality, as I've said, it's a crapshoot if it comes out or not, I've been lucky most of my audios have been at least 'useable'.
I imagine being close to the stage probably helped w/ crowd noise not really being a distracting factor in the audio. We might have asked if we could hook in w/ their audio, but I'd already told them that I was basically a fan, wouldn't be publishing or using my media for sale.
Also, I think we got more of the experience than we were meant to. Asking to plug into their audio, might have increased the scrutiny on us. After Morgan's set, I found out that security was told that we were allowed 2 songs to video/photo. But because we (especially Greg) socialized w/ security and the attendees who we'd be doing our stuff near, we ended up being able to do Morgan's entire set
Finally, I do some audio and video editing of my footage. It's a cheap program, Magix, around $40, but it get's stuff done. The only draw back, is it seems a bit buggy with my computer, maybe windows 8 (It works fine on my windows 7 PC and laptop). Sometimes the audio doesn't work, sometimes the video craps out, I have to reboot. But that happens as well with the higher end video editing programs on bigger computers. Video editing is a memory hog of a software, so I guess the rule of thumb is to save and save often.
The audio, I try to dampen hisses, reduce 'crackling' and buzzes, then use the equalizer to bring up or lower sounds. The hard thing about audio, the way I do it, w/o much knowledge, it's like a cook trying to make a new recipe, you taste it too often, it becomes hard to judge objectively.
Audio can be hard because sometimes you try too much that you might change it so much, you might as well scrap the whole thing and reboot, start again
I had a good amount of problems w/ Haley's Troubadour set.
The good news is, IF you're able to find a good balance, you can save what you did and use it for the other songs, same with videos, save settings for one clip to apply to the others.
Here's a good one, "Say the Words"
^^ This one, because it starts so quietly, I added extra dampening to pull back ambient crowd noise more, pleased to hear it didn't adversely affect Morgan or the musicians... it fact Morgan's voice sounds even clearer...'brighter'
BTW, there was a song before this one, "Jenny" that Morgan said was a new one they were trying it out. For some reason, I had a thought that maybe I should ask her if it's OK to post. Turns out it was good that I asked. She said she wanted to work on it more, if it was OK if I don't post..... She asked if it was OK w/ ME to not post it? LOL I said, it was her song, I wouldn't post it w/o her permission.
I wonder if younger people would even know what camera film is????
