"Tanti anni prima" ("Ave Maria") by Astor Piazzolla
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96Bass
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Excellent performance on a magnificent instrument. I really enjoy your contributions to this forum. Respect!
Very nice!!
And I really like the 3-way split screen! Do you use multiple cameras?
And I really like the 3-way split screen! Do you use multiple cameras?
Yes
It would likely be easier to use good lighting and a single 4K videocam (currently I have neither) and then use crops from the central view. Using those "crossing" cameras, however, gives me a better angle at the finger work than a central view would.
The central camera is the good one. The next better one is the one shown here on the right for tracking the bass side. The one with the worst quality is on the left and tracking the treble side: since that doesn't move, the camera can zoom in farthest and has the least demanding resolution to deliver. You can see that the bass tracking camera has a field of view that supports the bass side going out and downwards.
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Thanks, I suspected something like that from the edited result. I appreciate the video rotations on the bass hand.
Syncing them must be interesting.
Your presentation method makes it so nice to see the fingers while listening! Some of us elderly and feeble-minded beginners need all the help we can find!
BTW, it I got this light kit for my own video productions and I’m quite happy with them - good even lighting, color temperature is perfect for me. The dimmers make it easy to control the balance.
(The videos show them in use in various settings)
JKJ
It's sort of simple, actually, in the video editor I use (Shotcut) once you have stuff set up. Essentially I skip forward in the video until the bellows direction reverses, then draw on movement rotation levers in the final image until the buttons are right side up. One would think that one needs intermediate points, but unless there is a significant pause in between, it turns out that this is almost always enough. I should likely make it a habit to give the result a final view, and when the image travels too far from being correct in between, add another "key frame", but the results tend to be good enough. It's almost more work to puzzle together the starting and ending sequence than the whole bass side travel in the middle.
The one thing I had to watch out for in a previous edit was that the rotations ended up alternatively left and right, and pulling on the lever delivers angles from 0°–360°. When one key frame states 5° and the next states 355°, the intermediate frames create a capriole running from 5° to 355° of rotation rather than from 5° to -5°. Probably worth an issue report.
I am not sure it is a lot of help: it's what keeps me staring sideways in the video in order not to get confused by seeing my fingers at work. I don't recognize a lot, but it is reassuring that there is actually pretty little movement and excitement to be seen. I think that is different with piano accordion where the right hand will move in a more dramatic manner.
Yeah, I'll eventually come up with something. There are numerous old film lamps with 1000W or 2000W but one has to look at them closely: many say "maximum use time 5 minutes" or so on their case, coming from the Super-8 times. Those that don't typically do so by virtue of a fan and I have no idea how loud that would turn out. So maybe I need to look for something more modern.
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I used to use hot lamps, hated them. I’ve also used full-spectrum CFLs for photography, much cooler but still get pretty warm.
One nice thing about those I mentioned (and many new video/photography lamps) is they use LEDs and don’t get hot.
As a piano player the button accordions are both baffling and fascinating to me - the RH gets much of my attention in the videos. Without understanding the layout it all looks like magic. How do he DO dat?!
For the rotations I wonder if a another editor would work differently. Maybe I’ll try some rotations in mine and see how it behaves.
"...- the RH gets much of my attention in the videos. Without understanding the layout it all looks like magic. How do he DO dat?! "
In my long-way-away-from-anywhere location, I find that I can refine my fingering, wristing, shouldering and spineing by slowing down the 'tubes of the more accomplished exponents of the art.
Olexandr Hrstovich is a marvel to behold, especially at half speed.
"In my long-way-away-from-anywhere location, I find that I can refine my fingering, wristing, shouldering and spineing by slowing down the 'tubes of the more accomplished exponents of the art.
Olexandr Hrstovich is a marvel to behold, especially at half speed.
That's the advantage of watching videos of me. They are already slowed down. You'd have to speed them up to get to half of Hrstevich's speed."...- the RH gets much of my attention in the videos. Without understanding the layout it all looks like magic. How do he DO dat?!
In my long-way-away-from-anywhere location, I find that I can refine my fingering, wristing, shouldering and spineing by slowing down the 'tubes of the more accomplished exponents of the art.
Olexandr Hrstovich is a marvel to behold, especially at half speed.
