Eric Lewis videos shot back in September.

Laurence wrote on 12/17/2009, 1:25 PM
I did a TedX video shoot back in September and some videos from the event have finally been posted:

This one is a jazz pianist named Eric Lewis. He was doing straight jazz for awhile and played with some pretty amazing jazz cats, but was not making much headway career-wise. Now he's doing this:





I was running back and forth between two cameras during this shoot and had no idea of how it might turn out. One camera is quite a lot better quality than the other but the editor (whoever that might be) did a really good job of matching them. EL has a pretty severe dynamic range as well and I was really afraid of distortion. I recorded him mono on both channels with the level on one channel way lower than the other so that both the loud and soft parts would sound good. I let both cameras run the entire time so that it wouldn't be a syncing nightmare.

The better camera was a Sony Z7U, the other was a Sony HVR-A1. I ran both at 60i since that mode was common to both cameras. I have no idea who edited it or what platform he or she used.

Here's a Wikipedia article about Eric Lewis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lewis_(pianist)

Comments

farss wrote on 12/17/2009, 1:47 PM
You might want to fix up your original post.

The mix sounded dull, sterile and remote to me. Only listening to it on crappy PC speakers and YouTube doesn't help audio but it should have sounded better. Not your fault I know.

Bob.
Laurence wrote on 12/17/2009, 1:58 PM
I wasn't the sound guy. Yeah I know. It was a pretty reverberant room and the mix was for the portable speakers that were set up at the event. The piano was so loud acoustically in the room that I don't think the sound guy did anything aside from just route me a feed of the audio without actually being able to listen to it himself. I just shot the video. I had no control of anything after that.
rstrong wrote on 12/17/2009, 5:13 PM
The first clip sounded pretty good on my system, but I could be biased as I'm a keyboard player too. The second clip certainly had some hiss to it. I don't understand why they want to turn a piece of music into a performance, e.g. messing with the strings like that.

R. Strong

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