And his amplifier goes to eleven. ;)

Fantastic, and he didn''t use 128 tracks !

geoff

I enjoyed it.

“This is my best friend, Garth Algar.”
“Hi.”
“I think we’ll go with a little Bohemian Rhapsody, gentlemen?”
“Good call.”

Probably the greatest rock song of all time - and a well done remake.

...Jerry (who will turn 65 in May)

That was probably the best 6.5 minutes of my day so far. Incredible.

very good, guitar solo pretty much spot on too.
Check out the gong hit at the end - haha.

Paul.

Here's an interesting read: http://www.richiecastellano.com/blog/

"The video part was also challenging. I had Sony Vegas, which is great, but anytime you do a project with up to 12 separate videos on the screen at the same time, it can really chew up system resources on your computer. It was really hard to see what was going on while my computer was chugging along trying to keep up with everything. Although it was tough, doing the video was probably the most fun part. Video editing is a hobby of mine and it didn't feel like work.

...Jerry

The final result is quite impressive and then to read Richie's blog, really drew me into his experience as well.

He refers to bounce and I've read several definitions and explanations of it, but just don't totally get the reference. The old dog in me I guess.

Bounce:
With multitrack Tape it's simply playing numerous tracks with the Record Head (aka Sync Head), mixing them and re-recording them to fewer tracks on the same head on same tape. Thus say 12 tracks of block harmonies can be reduced to 1 or 2 tracks. The new tracks are in sync with the original, and the original tracks can be erased & used for something else. The only compromises are that it cannot be undone once the original tracks are erased, and the playback from the Record Head can be slightly less than optimal (compared to a Playback Head) on some machines. Engineer also had to plan ahead a little as generally bouncing to adjacent tracks caused problems (e.g. feedback because of tape and head bleed).

In the digital domain e.g. a DAW like Vegas, a bounce is much easier and achieved in a similar way with facilities like 'render to a new track'. Benefits in a DAW are that there's no need to erase the original 'tracks' (merely mute them) so a pre-mix can be done again if some change is desired, and that performance of the DAW can be sometimes increased by having less tracks playing during the final mixdown/render.

wow!

Fuchs wrote:
"And his amplifier goes to eleven. ;)"

Mine goes up to 12!

most excellent ;)

I have the original version from Queen downloaded as a 24 track project. It used to be available online and might still be on warez sites. It is interesting to see how the tracks were layed out, which ones were bounced and premixed and what stuff was recorded and not used in the final mix.

If you search you can find other songs in multi-track versions. Sgt Pepper's was online as the 4 tracks. and other queen songs.

Dave T2

Wow!

/jerry

This is 2 louder!? - If Nigel would know about ...

Fuchs wrote:
"And his amplifier goes to eleven. ;)"

NocolSD wrote:
Mine goes up to 12!

XKCD Comic about this.

Impressive work by the musician and nice editing work to show the layers!

Chris, I am just getting back into editing with Vegas pro. For doing this kind of heavy editing with 3 to 5 video tracks, what would be a good computer system to get? CPU, memory??

???

Don

Start a new thread.

Well that's it for me, I'm giving up on all future music video projects. Not much could top that. (However, he could have used a camera with a manual focus, I noticed the auto-focus going in and out a few times)

Bloody well done!

Bohemian Rhapsody, the sequel:



...Jerry

Astonishingly good production from Ritchie,loved it.

Jerry, thanks also for drawing our attention to "the sequel". As a scientifically trained person, I realize how important it is to establish appropriate benchmarks so we can appraise the merit of an item. You have certainly established the quality of Ritchie's work.

Duncan