Like this weekend, I have discovered that my Canon ELPH can be easily used to take videos (I knew it could but never thought it through for music promotion). But the problem herewith is the audio. You know how the old recordings on 78rpm records always sounded like they were recorded in a rainshower? Well that's what the audio sounds like on my Canon videos. So I got the brilliant (my word) idea that I could record the audio portion in glorious, high-quality digital format with my Zoom H2 portable digital recorder, then sync everything together in Garageband for a fine video. Well, necessity is the mother of invention you know. What I didn't take into account was the file trail (and file naming etc.) task that would be required to keep it all straight. For example, if I flubbed a take and chose to plow forward without stopping either machine, I had to remember how many false starts were on each take. Attempting to record more that one song only complicated matters. Then I also learned that since Garageband is specifically designed for audio, I could not edit the beginning of a video the way I could stop it at the end anywhere I wanted. At least I haven't figured out how to do it. So I re-recorded several pieces and edited the beginning on the Canon before uploading it to my laptop.
It's a lot of boring information granted. But it's how I spent most of my weekend. I did learn a lot about the process and now know how to avoid some of the earlier pitfalls. I'm not too ashamed of the outcome though. . .
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