Carnival of Venus
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The sound is nice, the music well played, but the fast moving background is not only distracting, it induced a good dose of motion sickness in me. Thinking it was stupid that I felt this, I asked if my mom could look at the video. She was good for about 20 seconds and had to stop for the same reasons.
My humble recommendation... make the videos about YOU, not fast moving and unrelated background pictures that take away from your hard work. There is nothing wrong with adding "pizzaz", but don't let it dominate your entire video to the point that it is distracting and makes it hard to watch.
Happy New Year!
My humble recommendation... make the videos about YOU, not fast moving and unrelated background pictures that take away from your hard work. There is nothing wrong with adding "pizzaz", but don't let it dominate your entire video to the point that it is distracting and makes it hard to watch.
Happy New Year!
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Jerry:
Thank you for your feeedback, I will definitely consider it. It was not, however, “unrelated”. It was in fact a video of costumes at one of the “:carnivals of Venice”. Anyhow, good suggestions and I will couple them with others that seem to like the videos (comments I get there are “no one just wants to watch a guy play the accordion’). I would appreciate any other feedback on this - because adding the backgrounds takes way more time than recording the song so if most folks think they distract then i would be wise to remove them.
Thank you for your feeedback, I will definitely consider it. It was not, however, “unrelated”. It was in fact a video of costumes at one of the “:carnivals of Venice”. Anyhow, good suggestions and I will couple them with others that seem to like the videos (comments I get there are “no one just wants to watch a guy play the accordion’). I would appreciate any other feedback on this - because adding the backgrounds takes way more time than recording the song so if most folks think they distract then i would be wise to remove them.
Hi Roy,
I agree with Jerry about the sound and well played nature of your video and applaud your efforts. To me, the pictures in this video are not super distracting or inducing of motion sickness (I did, however watch on my phone, not a large monitor.)
What I do find somewhat distracting, however, is that you are cut off below your accordion and therefore seem to be floating in front of the images. I like seeing someone playing the accordion, so that doesn't bother me, but why are you floating?
Anyway, keep up the cool videos!
I agree with Jerry about the sound and well played nature of your video and applaud your efforts. To me, the pictures in this video are not super distracting or inducing of motion sickness (I did, however watch on my phone, not a large monitor.)
What I do find somewhat distracting, however, is that you are cut off below your accordion and therefore seem to be floating in front of the images. I like seeing someone playing the accordion, so that doesn't bother me, but why are you floating?
Anyway, keep up the cool videos!
How I understand that the video post processing takes way more time than recording the music and initial video! 
On average, it is not uncommon to invest two hours editing time for every minute of video time. But then I also do stupid things like rushing to get it completed, taking the 1 hour to export the file only to find that I made an editing error and have to fix it and re-export it again... haha!
Green screening is also a touchy process because not all video editing apps handle it correctly or it is challenging to find the proper lighting setup and application settings that make it "perfect". I noted that often the background video comes through faintly in the black parts of your accordion, which kind of gives you a ghosted effect.
What program are you using for your video editing? I used to use Pinnacle Studio Pro and it did that to me at times. I now use Premiere Pro CC 2019 and it seems to work a lot better, though it is more expensive, complex and requires a steep learning curve since I have not been using it all that long but the results are much better
If I may make a suggestion, make yourself and your amazing accordion the star of the show. The stock video footage is nice, but it should be secondary to you and that lovely accordion, not dominate the screen real estate.
On average, it is not uncommon to invest two hours editing time for every minute of video time. But then I also do stupid things like rushing to get it completed, taking the 1 hour to export the file only to find that I made an editing error and have to fix it and re-export it again... haha!
Green screening is also a touchy process because not all video editing apps handle it correctly or it is challenging to find the proper lighting setup and application settings that make it "perfect". I noted that often the background video comes through faintly in the black parts of your accordion, which kind of gives you a ghosted effect.
What program are you using for your video editing? I used to use Pinnacle Studio Pro and it did that to me at times. I now use Premiere Pro CC 2019 and it seems to work a lot better, though it is more expensive, complex and requires a steep learning curve since I have not been using it all that long but the results are much better
If I may make a suggestion, make yourself and your amazing accordion the star of the show. The stock video footage is nice, but it should be secondary to you and that lovely accordion, not dominate the screen real estate.
Rhelsing
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O am using Final Cut Pro - but the reason that the background is coming through is because I intentionally set the opaqueness to make that happen. Mostly just experimenting, but my intent was not to be the highlight, but rather the background video to be the highlight. Might have to rethink that, but it is not a software issue - it was intentional. The keying in Final Cut Pro works pretty well. I took your advice on "When the Saints go Marching In - did not obscure, and made myself the main attraction - still struggling with which way I want to do it but do appreciate the input. The other problem I am having is that I cannot capture the reeds properly so the sound is still not true (the digital sound is tru, but the acoustical reeds are not coming through at all. I just ordered a four channel recording device that will get her Friday - so I can do the digital left and right on two channels, and the acoustical left and right on two channels and see if I can get the acoustical parts to come through.
Final Cut Pro is a known VERY good app, tons of features and stable. I just looked at your When the Saints... video... IMHO background too busy, and your head and accordion are cut, but even at that, technically, your best video to date because we can see you and the accordion perfectly clearly. It makes it much more personal for the audience that way, and they see your accordion up closer than before too!
Does your accordion have internal mics (I am quite sure it does, but want to ask anyway)? Do you not connect those to your input device? If you order a 4 input channel, that means you can do a L/R digital side and L/R acoustic side and manually balance everything off in an external audio software then paste that in to your video editing software (I use Reaper). However, there are very few internal mics that can compare to quality external mics, which is why I invested in external mics, but those can get expensive easily too, though anything above the $200 each starts to sound quite decent. That said, I have an ongoing project to make my own custom internal accordion setup one day, just to play with, and again, learn.
For acoustic recordings, I played with ElCheapo ($20 each) mics and had pretty good results, but then I went way overboard , and chose 1 condenser mics that were $1,000US for a matched pair of seElectronics SE4400a condenser microphones.
Expensive, yes, but the sound is definitely high end studio quality and they sound better than mics twice their price. Once I get my Hohner Morino tuned (in a couple of months), I will start making some acoustic recordings using this setup. In the meantime, I am learning about mic placement and styles. If that interests you, I have a blog post about a couple of excellent setups for the acoustic accordion using external mics.
Does your accordion have internal mics (I am quite sure it does, but want to ask anyway)? Do you not connect those to your input device? If you order a 4 input channel, that means you can do a L/R digital side and L/R acoustic side and manually balance everything off in an external audio software then paste that in to your video editing software (I use Reaper). However, there are very few internal mics that can compare to quality external mics, which is why I invested in external mics, but those can get expensive easily too, though anything above the $200 each starts to sound quite decent. That said, I have an ongoing project to make my own custom internal accordion setup one day, just to play with, and again, learn.
For acoustic recordings, I played with ElCheapo ($20 each) mics and had pretty good results, but then I went way overboard
, and chose 1 condenser mics that were $1,000US for a matched pair of seElectronics SE4400a condenser microphones. Expensive, yes, but the sound is definitely high end studio quality and they sound better than mics twice their price. Once I get my Hohner Morino tuned (in a couple of months), I will start making some acoustic recordings using this setup. In the meantime, I am learning about mic placement and styles. If that interests you, I have a blog post about a couple of excellent setups for the acoustic accordion using external mics.
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