https://youtu.be/1VPPnh5nGjs
Nice one Clive! Sounds great and clever video too. I'd love to read a quick summary of how you recorded the tracks, synched the sound and created the vid. I keep thinking I should give Olive a go but haven't tried it yet. Maybe this isn't the right thread? Don't want to join the hijack gang.
Steve
Since you asked :-)
It's a bit of extra work to be sure, but not that much.
Setup - 1 x webcam (cheap, unbranded), and 1 x Zoom H2n USB microphone. The Zoom is a fantastic bit of kit I use it all the time. It's a standalone recorder, and also a top notch USB microphone. The webcam is a nasty, nasty, nasty generic one, and nowhere near as good as the Logitech one my wife just nicked off me.
Software - for sound, Mixcraft, which is what I've used for my recordings for some time now. It's commercial, but not very expensive. It's right in the sweetspot of functionality v ease of use for me. For editing, Olive, of which more in a minute.
So... we set Mixcraft recording the Zoom and the PC camera app recording video from the webcam at the same time. Also, set my phone up recording from its microphone entirely separately. Sit at the back of the room, on the left (not the middle!) of the camera's field of view. Play away, until you get a decent take. Clapping a few times before each take makes synchronising later easier.
Once you've got that, leave the webcam and mixcraft recording. Stop the phone recording. Move to the right of the camera field of view. Get an earphone to use as an in-ear monitor from your phone and play back from just before the start of your decent take. Clap when the clapping from the first run comes along; try and synchronise it! Now play along with your first recording. If you want to do a retake, just replay the phone recording and try again.
Once you've got a decent second recording, stop the mixcraft and camera recording. Use mixcraft to cut up the audio track, isolating the 2 versions you want to keep. Synchronise the 2 audio takes as best you can on different tracks, and mix to taste (i.e. for me, add reverb!). Export the result as a .mp3.
Now, to Olive. Again, isolate the video of the 2 versions you want to keep, and synchronise the 2 video takes as best you can. One will totally obscure the other, so take the video of you playing on the left, and apply a crop on it off the right half of the picture. It took me ages to find it, but the setting is on video effects/distort/crop. Apply a bit of feather to avoid any difference in lighting that makes the difference between the 2 takes obvious. Now import the .mp3, and synchronise that too. Once you're happy with the synchronisation, mute the video tracks (turn audio volume down fully).
Export... and you're there.
Olive is a pretty amazing tool. Free, and capable of all manner of crazy stuff, including those grid of different people videos that are also popular at the moment. No documentation to speak of though - I had to watch some youtube tutorials to find out where crop was.
Have fun experimenting!