Off Topic Those who post YouTube videos- Question on how...

[JonWands]

Hi All,

Basically I want to put together semi-professional looking/sounding videos together. The tools at hand are a)Macbook Pro (with GarageBand), b)M-Audio Fasttrack Pro interface, c)Microphones, d)Guitar/Amp. I have drum tracks/backing tracks and am looking to just record guitar over them. Simple enough right? Just wanting to know how those on the forum do theirs as I have seen some very good videos on YouTube. The simpler the better. Thanks in advance!

Jon W

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I was just thinking about this today! I would also like to know how its done, as maybe its time to unleash myself widdling on YouTube.

 

[DrKev]

<pet peeve on>Important equipment for such videos - a guitar tuner!<pet peeve off>

 

[Gnumarco]

With iMovie for example you record yourself taking the input of your mic while you have the backingtrack in the headphones. You then import in iMovie the backingtrack and mix it with the recorded sound.
Not the most professional but it works.
Another solution would be using your preferred DAW to record the sound, while another soft records the video and the make the sync in a video editing soft (like iMovie)

 

[DrKev]

Another solution would be using your preferred DAW to record the sound, while another soft records the video and the make the sync in a video editing soft (like iMovie)

A buddy of mine has recommended this approach to me (I have yet to try it). He says the iPad is perfectly good video quality. The iPad's audio jack can even accept audio from an external mic (but mono only and you'll need a 3.5mm mini-jack, TRRS with the mic audio on the sleeve, ground on the second ring). Probably easier to record on a separate machine and fly the audio in later on in iMovie or Windows Movie Maker, or VirtualDub or something like that.

 

[Gnumarco]

A buddy of mine has recommended this approach to me (I have yet to try it). He says the iPad is perfectly good video quality. The iPad's audio jack can even accept audio from an external mic (but mono only and you'll need a 3.5mm mini-jack, TRRS with the mic audio on the sleeve, ground on the second ring). Probably easier to record on a separate machine and fly the audio in later on in iMovie or Windows Movie Maker, or VirtualDub or something like that.

Actually I have been doing this lately: my MacBook Pro plays the backingtrack and produced my guitar sound (I use an amp simulator), then the mixed signal goes out into my iPad (stereo as I have and external sound card for my iPad) and the iPad record the video using the output of the MacBook Pro for the sound. Sounds complicated, but quality is very good

 

[ksandvik]

Final Cut Pro X has multi cam sync so you could record multiple video streams with a couple of iPads/iPhones + separate good audio recording and sync all those streams together. That would make the video very professional as most online teaching videos are done with just one camera with the camera as the audio recorder, too. And it helps to bubble up amongst all the music instruction videos out there. You could even include corners with still photos of chords and scale images, too...

 

[Benji Peterson]

I use iMovie and typically Garage Band for simple stuff and occasionally will use Logic Pro for midi controls. I've recorded with an sm57 for live cabs but here lately line usb out from my Axe FX II. I don't have much in the way of higher end camera equipment but would definitely suggest using more than one camera for different angles or recording the parts with multiple passes at various camera angles. Clipping everything together in a basic video editor like iMovie is pretty simple and the various angles can make a video more interesting and fun to look at.
Definitely check out Ola Englund's tutorials on youtube. He has some great info and it's simple and free. Hit me up if I can be of help at all!

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-Benji

 

[mtrejo]

Ben, you gotta post more vids man! You are are so damned talented.

 

[Benji Peterson]

Ben, you gotta post more vids man! You are are so damned talented.

Thanks man. Much appreciated. I'll try to find some time I've just had my hands full lately.

 

[JonWands]

Thanks for all the replies! I found out earlier that doing it just through GarageBand and using iMovie worked decently. Also using the HD video from my iPhone is better yet and still pretty simple. Just importing the audio track into iMovie and then muting the audio on the video clip and getting them in sync worked pretty well. Not familiar with DAW; I will have to research that. I'm just an amateur