video and audio simlutaneously

[SoundAsleep]

how 'bout an economical solution to record a short video of a live band with decent audio and video synced together and put to DVD?

I got the audio recording part down.
Just unsure of the video-what to record it with and how to put the 2 together and get something decent.

any suggestions?

 

[michaelst]

Get one good recording... get many decent video clips... get video editing software. Lay out the audio recording in the software then add short(.5 to 5 second) moving clips of manually synched video.

Voila! music video!

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

how 'bout an economical solution to record a short video of a live band with decent audio and video synced together and put to DVD?

Sony Vegas DVD (Vegas packaged with DVD Architect) will allow you to record and edit multitrack video and audio, and burn it to DVD, all on your PC, with completly professional results. I use this all the time myself.

On the business end, any decent quality consumer mini-DV or Digital-8 camcorders with Firewire interface (sometimes called iLink in the video world) will perform well enough, but if you live in a metro area with a video and theater rental facility (most decent-sized cities have at least one of these in the Yellow Pages), rent yourself a couple of prosumer DV camcorders for a few days. It's an inexpensive way to get very good quality video results for short term projects.

Highly important and often neglected is the lighting equipment. Proper lighting is to video what proper mic technique is to audio, and can make or break the look of your video and keep it from looking like a home movie. I'm not talking fancy lighting, just the proper temperature lighting with some bounce and fill materials in order to get good lighting design for filming the subject at the right exposure and with the proper shadows (or lack thereof.)

G.

 

[SoundAsleep]

Awesome.I haves Vegas 4.0. Thanks alot.

 

[TimOBrien]

Southside Glen nailed it.

I just completed a video/audio session with my father-in-law to produce a CD/DVD set for the family's Christmas.

I used a Canon GL-2 DV camera on a tripod (let it go ahead and record the sound), then for audio I mic'ed the guitar amp with an SM-57 and put a M-Audio Solaris LDC on him, recording in Cubase. Let both run for the full session.

I'll master out the audio clips in Cubase (after making an audio CD in CDArchitect) and then bring them into Vegas and line them up. Export each video clip and then bring all the clips together in DVDArchitect for the final DVD product.

It's a bit of work, but not bad at all....