This is a complement to Audacity, read on and see why.
Hello Bookshareians,
The New York Philharmonic, each member in their own homes and each one
listening to a metronome with earphones, played Ravel’s Bolero. These
individual recordings were then merged and the individual video tracks
consolidated into a video image which shows what instruments are playing
at any given time. All done with free software. See the note below. The
results are on YouTube. This effort is dedicated to all the health-care
and other essential workers who are working during the Covid-19 emergency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3UW218_zPo
Note these credits:
Video/Audio Editing by New York Philharmonic bass Isaac Trapkus;
Audio Editing by Assistant Principal Timpani/Percussion Kyle Zerna
Below is an explanation that appears in the comments posted to YouTube:
"Thank you everyone for your kind words and comments! We saw a lot of
people asking how this was made so here is a quick
walk-through: Everyone recorded themselves while listening to a
metronome in headphones. The two of us musicians that put this together
had no video making experience, just a lot of determination! All the
software we used is available for free. We used VLC player to extract
all the audio from the video and Handbrake to convert and compress the
videos if they were too large or in a strange format. We used Audacity
to remove background noise, align and balance all the audio, and mix it
all down into one track. Finally, we used HitFilm Express ('Express' is
the free version of HitFilm and similar to iMovie) to align all the
video clips and chop them up into different groupings. You could use any
video program though and there was nothing about HitFilm that made any
of the group shots easier. Using a newish laptop it took 6 hours just to
render the video of the 20 second group shot at the end but it can be
done without super-fancy equipment. That and many "how do I..." google
searches got us across the finish line! Best wishes from the NY
Philharmonic musicians to you all and stay well!"
--
Curtis Delzer
HS
K 6 V F O
Rialto, CA
curtis@xxxxxxxxxx
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