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Filming ones self playing.
John MacKenzie (Cugiok):
I have never managed to make this work satisfactorily. What setup do other Melnetters use?
I particularly like Anahata's You Tube oeuvre, along with Clive's and Lester's, many other's too.
SJ
Lester:
I use a Panasonic TZ100 on a tripod for both video and audio. I process the file using iMovie on my iMac. Unlike others I don't apply any effects to the audio although I have been known to edit mistakes out of the audio after take 67 of a particular tune. (:)
Stiamh:
Ha, Sir John, there is no end to how far you can go down the road to technical complexity (see the YouTube video of our own Baron Collins Hill for an interesting and by no means extreme example).
On the other hand, if you want to keep it dead simple, you can get pretty good results with an inexpensive point-and-shoot digital camera and no editing software at all - e.g. a Canon Powershot Digital Elph which I have used for all my own videos, many without any editing.
Jack Humphreys:
I've just used a simple pocket camera for most of mine, Canon Ixus on a tiny tripod. At first I had to guess about the framing, or take test photos. In recent years I've set up a shaving mirror behind the camera, so, while playing, I can see the screen on the back of the camera. Much easier framing now. My only editing is to trim the beginning and end using the Photos app within Windows 10.
I did try to improve the sound quality by recording on a Zoom H1 recorder, plugged into a cheap Kodak Zi8 video recorder from Oxfam/Ebay, but had problems getting the level right and with variations caused by automatic level setting on the Kodak. I was not willing to put the time into learning how to do this properly, and also unwilling to learn audio editing and synchronisation.
So after a brief experiment with an obsolete Zoom Q video recorder, I've now returned to using my little Ixus..... which seems to have no difficulty setting an appropriate level. My videos with the most hits were all made with the Ixus, so I'll settle for the ease of using that. But then..... my videos are probably not among those you admire.
laurenth:
I'm using a Zoom Q2n I bought some time ago.
Rather effective, the sound is good.
I still have to put the videos on some platform to get a feedback... too shy at the moment
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