One of the common themes in
the SDC helmet cam clips is the music. In case anyone missed the memo,
the music has one thing in common (save a few samples from early on in
my clip-editing life): they're performed by bands associated with one of
my two brothers. Between the two of them they could be a band - they
compose, sing, and play guitar, bass, and the drums.
Inevitably
riders will ask one another what kind of music each listens to when
pedaling on the trainer. I can honestly answer that my brothers' music
has been motivating me for years and years and years - I listen to them
in the car, on the trainer, and when I watch, well, the helmet cam
clips.
Ultimately I made them using my brothers' music because that's what I find inspires and motivates me.
Unfortunately I only ever managed to video one brother at one
of his band's last gig in Chicago, IL. Because of a mistaken
assumption, I thought I'd have a clean recording of the sound (via a
third party). However this wasn't the case, and since I didn't worry
about sound quality in my own recording, I never took into account sound
quality when videotaping the show. For example, for parts of one song i
put the camcorder on top of the amps lining the stage.
Obviously that didn't do well for the sound.
It was worse when I reviewed the clips - the muddy sound was terrible, the volume just overwhelming the tiny built-in mic.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. But there's only one take in life, and in this case the show sound was pretty bad.
Frustrated,
I gave up trying to make a clip out of the very long, very awesome,
very emotional show. I had no way of fitting the two together, not well
anyway, not with the applications I had at hand.
Then
along came iMovie on the Mac, with all sorts of high end editing
capabilities. Suddenly the sub-second synchronization required of a
music video came within reach. I found I could synchronize the live
footage with a studio recording of the same song.
Although
I find that there's some lag in playback (compared to the "master" in
iMovie), it's still a lot better than I could ever have dreamed.
The show video has a limited harvest capacity. After I did "Deepest Knife" I went to do another and found, to my dismay, that somehow things just didn't work out. I seemed to have forgotten all that I learned while doing Deepest Knife. I also happened to pick a song that closely matched the studio recording, making compiling the video much easier.
Disappointed I set the whole URT thing aside. I still had the imported clip in iMovie but thought it hopeless to create another clip.
When I had the issues with iMovie I moved back to the old machine. My old projects were there including a few optimistically created and named URT clips, projects that existed in title only.
I picked up Green Wine because I really like the song and because someone in the audience was yelling "Green Wine!" until they played the song. I started editing it and things started flowing. It took a number of edits but it's about where it'll get. To make it more... complete, for lack of a better term, would mean sacrificing other "harvests", borrowing significant footage from songs I hold hope of completing one day.
I hope you enjoy this clip. It's a fun song, yes, but it also represents a significant amount of work on my part. Sub-second synchronization doesn't matter in bike race clips but when dealing with a live concert it matters a lot.
My apologies in advance for any synchronization errors, weirdness with guitar or bass playing stuff, etc. That's all me, in my editing.
With that caveat please enjoy:
The show video has a limited harvest capacity. After I did "Deepest Knife" I went to do another and found, to my dismay, that somehow things just didn't work out. I seemed to have forgotten all that I learned while doing Deepest Knife. I also happened to pick a song that closely matched the studio recording, making compiling the video much easier.
Disappointed I set the whole URT thing aside. I still had the imported clip in iMovie but thought it hopeless to create another clip.
When I had the issues with iMovie I moved back to the old machine. My old projects were there including a few optimistically created and named URT clips, projects that existed in title only.
I picked up Green Wine because I really like the song and because someone in the audience was yelling "Green Wine!" until they played the song. I started editing it and things started flowing. It took a number of edits but it's about where it'll get. To make it more... complete, for lack of a better term, would mean sacrificing other "harvests", borrowing significant footage from songs I hold hope of completing one day.
I hope you enjoy this clip. It's a fun song, yes, but it also represents a significant amount of work on my part. Sub-second synchronization doesn't matter in bike race clips but when dealing with a live concert it matters a lot.
My apologies in advance for any synchronization errors, weirdness with guitar or bass playing stuff, etc. That's all me, in my editing.
With that caveat please enjoy:
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