You are a rare breed -- I like that!

Heh, well I can also be that super annoying guy who walks into a room, looks at any workflow, and can tell you how to be more efficient. Just ask my wife how well that goes over :)

But without strict logic and structure I would go mad trying to create these. Just way too much stuff going on.

Daniel, just don't ever try to teach middle school and you'll be fine.

I have long suspected that the human brain is less forgiving with audio quality than it is with the quality of video images.

I would agree with you, because I have always been “that guy” who notices every flaw with a movie’s audio track, but can be very forging to picture issues. Background noise, low sampling quality, over digital compression, obviously different take or overdub, glitching, harshness, etc. So audio is very important to me - if only I had the hardware, environment, and tools to create perfection! I’m still using onboard audio, gah! Though that might not last much longer as I think the headphone jack on the case is failing.

This video was edited in VEGAS (quickly, while busy working 2 music festivals running visuals on these domes, we were too busy animating custom visuals for the dome to spend much time on the video). The audio is from VEGAS Content. The transitions used came from the GL transitions thread on these forums. VEGAS even helped with the editing of the content we are projecting onto the dome, such as color correction, post effects, framerate upscaling (optical flow resampling of 30p animations to 60p), and pixel upscaling to a 4096x4096 dome render for certain content. Everything worked like a charm for this project, which was 2 music festivals back to back, Sacred Rose Festival, and North Coast Music Festival. This is the recap I made of our dome for the first festival.

In addition to our 30ft geodesic projection dome with all original, festival and artist branded content being projected onto it, GT Lasers also brought 10 20 watt lasers to the party, which really helped to fill the much larger 400ft inflatable Sports Dome that this was all contained within.

Next year, we're looking into taking this a step farther and projection mapping the big dome as well... this was just baby steps towards that. This was our first time using our dome as a stage, normally we just set it up as an art installation and the dome cover is pulled all the way closed so the content wraps around you a full 360 degrees, but the client wanted to use this dome as a stage instead, so we pulled the cover back to a half-dome so the artists could play inside while the crowd outside could still see in.

My latest music production - a fresh, different take on Radiohead's 90s rock classic, Creep. Nothing spectactular from a video edit perspective but did some fun (amature) things with lighting (wait for the drums). Like others have recently mentioned I spend a lot more time on the audio production - this one really deserves a system with good low end, or headphones, to truly appreciate (so much is lost when we only use our phones :). Hope you all enjoy and please subscribe, drop a comment, give a thumbs up, and share!

(My sister-in-law provided the original acoustic performance, and I did the full arrangement, drums, bass, piano, synths, etc)

@sakendrick nicely done! You recorded with.... mixed with... and the heartbeat at the end... from where? :D

sorry... should have added that detail :).

• Captured/mixed in Cakewalk by Bandlab
• Heavy user of Slate Digital for plugins (and various others, VST instruments)
• Drums are an acoustic kit converted to electric - I have a Roland TD25, capture in Cakewalk and render with Toontrack Superior Drummer 3
• Kelly uses a Rode NT1A with an iRig
• When needed - I use an AKG P220 with Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
• Video - just our phones (iphone for Kelly, Galaxy S20+ for me) - also made some make-shift diffusers with garden spot lights, cardboard boxes, and parchment paper - ha ha!

Heartbeat comes in at 1:42 and again at the end... it was one of those happy accidents. I was playing with drum machine style beat with heavy Low Pass Filtering and the kick drum sounded a heck of a lot like a heartbeat. Became kind of a theme in the song, coming alive with the build, then ultimately terminating... maybe I overthink these things, ha ha! Thanks for noticing and the nice feedback.

Drums acoustic converted to electric? How? Does the drums still sound like acoustic? Are you using different sticks?

I went to Windows OS on my Computer, I used OBS to make some videos, I then opened Vegas and put these videos on the timeline. I then rendered it out and this is what I got -

I then moved all the files I created with OBS to an External Hard Drive I have, restarted my Computer and went into my Daily Operating System, Linux Mint 20 Vanessa Cinnamon, opened the folder to my external hard drive and opened Kdenlive and put these same videos on that timeline and I got this video -

So what happened to Vegas? the video it rendered is complete crap

Drums acoustic converted to electric? How? Does the drums still sound like acoustic? Are you using different sticks?

 

Each drum has a trigger in it (piezo - from UFO drums), and top heads are mesh. Cymbals are specific electronic cymbals (Jobeky)... doesn't sound acoustic, but if I wanted to play acoustic, for the most part I just have to change skins, swap out my cymbals. Sticks are normal wood sticks (Vic Firth).

@sakendrick I don't really do much with music but am well into it & have friends who have worked with a few famous groups, after talking with the keyboard player (without naming names) of the band who did 'I predict a riot' I talked to a friend who said natural beats are key to some music, I guess a heartbeat can't be more natural to get in your soul,

@Former user so true! And very rhythmic.

@sakendrick 80's Ska, 90's Rave, 20's n 21's i might be too old but it seems no new genre of music has come out so i'm still raving a skanking 🕺🤣

ha ha! I think it was the third Ska wave that hit me - Less than Jake, Sublime, Suicide Machines, Rancid, Reel Big Fish, etc... I'm also in the mindset that music isn't what it used to be, but I'm sure every generation goes through that.

All i hear is rap over old tracks, dance/rave that hasn't changed in 30yrs & just normal singing however you want to define that. The 30s,40s,50s,60s,70s,80s& 90s each had what we'd call an era from Swing to Rave, but 2000-2020 is just nothing, nowt new, maybe it is a generation thing & I am just a grumpy old man,

Your audio is clipped, pretty much throughout. On top of that, Youtube is imposing a loudness penalty, which is just a brickwall limiter to my understanding.

Use a compressor / limiter and your gains to bring the audio back into Youtube's generous spec, which is -15LUFS, -6dBTP, and manage the peaks.

There is an online Loudness Penalty Analyzer to help you.

Thanks for that feedback. I pay attention to the peaks/loudness throughout the mixing process, use an online mastering service (cloudbounce), but can honestly say, I don't pay any attention once it gets into Vegas, which is probably a big mistake. I'll definitely do so going forward, and the penalty analyzer will be a big help.

@Dave-VanDeCappelle, you may want to make new post question besides of commenting here, since this thread is about sharing the final video.

This one is at the same venue as the last music festival I posted, but a different festival. We provided the dome, projections, and custom animated visuals. VEGAS played a big role in the production of those visuals, as well as this video, which was edited in VEGAS and contains music from VEGAS content.

@Dave-VanDeCappelle, you may want to make new post question besides of commenting here, since this thread is about sharing the final video.

And where do suggest I put it, I searched this forum and I could find no other place to put it

@Dave-VanDeCappelle ... Hit the New Post button and select the Vegas Pro / Video selection. Easy!. You don't have to add to an earlier forum thread unless that thread is relevant to your issue.

Doing short 1 minute clips for Instagram Reel of last week's Mid-Autumn festival:

The additional Exponential Swish preset of GL-Transition is a wonderful one, replacing my previously-manual made transition.