Tape it to the end of your bottom snare mic - I reckon you hit that thing pretty ahrd - I'd love to see it.
Oh, well done getting a vid cam. I bet we see fish from it before we see music vids.
Cool. If you need help, let me know.
How would I make a live scene in which I'm playing every instrument?
Cloning works well. Haha but seriously, you can do something like leaving the camera in one spot then moving your position with each instrument. You'll need video editing software to crop each video so it looks like multiple yous.
Sounds like a lot of work for a three minute song/video that no one will watch.
Getting four of you playing at once is tricky, but I expect there are easy ways of doing it using masks and stuff (which I haven't mastered).
However, one way it can be done (in my handycam-Vegas combination) is to use the Vegas Cookie-cutter plug in.
Set up the 'stage' so that there are four definite areas in which each player will be, i.e. person 1 is on the far left, person 2 on the middle left, person 3 on the middle right and person 4 on the far right.
Record each person performing, then pile these four video tracks on top of each other.
The bottom track stays as it is (this is person 1 on the left). Use the cookie cutter on the second from the bottom to give a split screen covering three quarters (i.e. leaving person 1 visible). Use the cookie cutter on the third from the bottom to give a split screen covering half (leaving persons 1 and 2 now visible). The topmost later uses the cookie cutter again, but (because of the way the plugin works) using "cut away section" instead of "cut away all but section" over the first three quarters.
If you play with opacity, of the top layers, the intrusion of person 1 into person 2's space may workout.
I've just tried the above out, but using four different clips to see how it works. I haven't tried recreating a band, though.
It's also not as good as having the players overlap each other . . . which is beyond me.
Well, it's the journey, not the destination. You record a whole bunch of songs no one listens to....
Yeah but playing and recording is fun. Editing video isn't.
CHili is right about chromakeying and using a green screen, and Vegas has a chromakey plugin that works pretty well. For this you need five layers of video. A video of the room, then a video of each player in front of a green screen.
It is indeed a lot of work to make a 3 minute video that no-one is going to watch . . . but . . . that's not dissimilar to spending hours recording a 3 minute song that no-one's going to listen to.
I made myself a green screen . . . just got a huge long length of green material, cut it up and sewed it together to make a single piece that's about 3m high and 4.5m wide. That bit is relatively easy. The hard bit is getting even lighting on it.
kc is on the money by suggesting vegas. It is cheap, and if you use (and like) Reaper, you will find Vegas a breeze, because it uses the same methodology.
And I'm with arcadeko . . . I love the editing part, particularly this: "The fun part is when you sync a really good visual with an audio event". Conversely, I hate shooting video.