Congratulation to Piotr (Megabit)

farss wrote on 3/2/2009, 1:52 AM
Finally I got to see what Piotr was pestering us about, Marcin Dylla at the Wawel Royal Castle.
This is excellent work, the sound is fantasic, the vision is excellent and of course the performance is by a master. Perhaps worth a mention that Marcin won the 2007 Guitar Foundation of America competition. Piotr was right to demand pixel and sample perfection, Marcin demands perfection in his own work, to deliver less in a commercial video of his performance would be unacceptable.

That this was not staged for the camera makes it a doubly outstanding achievement. I know how hard it is when the camera is there under sufferance. Editing the vision from these events is also a nigtmare I know only too well. You only have what you have, you have a soundtrack that cannot be touched and you pray and sweat that one camera had it covered. Murphy always seems to strike at just the wrong moment.

It's also ever so nice to see a work by a fellow Vegas user arrive in professionally produced packaging. Content might be king but it sure helps when it's nicely packaged and I note the photography was also done by Piotr so congratulations again.

So take a bow Piotr, you have excelled and done us all proud.

I'll keep my constructive criticism to one word, "tripod".

Bob.

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megabit wrote on 3/2/2009, 2:24 AM
Thanks Bob for this comment, I really appreciate words like this from our guru.

Editing was indeed a nightmare, as Marcin demanded that the final sound track was compiled from over 100 fragments, coming from the two concerts he gave (Friday and Saturday evenings), and a rehearsal. The reason was not so much his dissatisfaction with his own performance, but some disturbing noises that happened randomly in one evening here, and on another there (like a jet flying low over the Wawel Royal castle - mind you, the recital took place in an open courtyard). Some of those distractions were possible to cut out, some not - hence the problem.

Anyway, what I got from our sound engineer (who worked on it with Marcin) was a master sound track which I had to synchronize with the picture - coming from all those 3 events, and 3 cameras. Quite a task!

Anyway, I'm really happy and proud you like the result - had a bit of "stage fright" while sending the DVD to you, Bob ;-)

PS I thought I should add some more comments:

Even though I stated before that "editing was a nightmare", in Vegas it actually was a real joy - you may believe me or not, but I didn't have any single glitch, hang-up or any other problem with the software! Also, the tedious synchronizing job was a pleasure thanks to the excellent and beautiful music Marcin delivered - I almost never felt bored, or weary; I could listen to it over and over again (BTW, Marcin has won not one, but 19 (yes - nineteen) major classical guitar contests, almost in row, over a couple of recent years).

Last but not least: to all members of this forum who offered invaluable advice to me (Bob first of all) - I'd like to say "Thank you"!

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