Due to coronavirus pandemic, my school is shutdown for a while. They want me to continue teaching choir online. Eric Whitacre has made some really cool virtual choir videos. Has anyone in the community made any such videos with Vegas Pro? Any ideas or help or links to help would be greatly appreciated. Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, 48 gigs of RAM, I own Vegas Pro 17, Acid Pro 10 and SoundForge Pro 14.
"Sing"cerely,
Timothy Watkins
What an interesting post, Timothy. I taught school and Musical Theater choruses for 23 years (signature below).
If you'll point me to some of the videos you mention, and email me with some of your curricular goals, I will be glad to offer technical assistance in any way that I can.
I think the technology you're looking for to have the "experience" of the virtual concert is via Skype.
I want to send out a video and click track of myself conducting songs and have them record their voices and send their videos to me. I want to assemble them in something similar to this. My choir is not all that big, but I think it would be special for them to "see" themselves, especially the seniors.
Looks like a fascinating experiment, and totally doable in Vegas. As with that piece, audio flanging from using so many sources will be a problem, as will syncing them all up.
I don't know if Pluraleyes extension would be of help to you, but it is worth investigating.
Be sure and post some editor's cuts here so others can see them.
Your challenge will be the varying quality you get from them of the vocal recordings. Unless you give them all the same mic, it may end up sounding kind of rough, especially since they're not all going to be in a recording studio and therefore background noise will also be an issue in some cases. If you can get them all the same mic and instruct them on some basic sound isolation, it could come out fine, but otherwise you're in for a challenge to make it sound good.
Thankfully Vegas is also a fully featured digital audio workstation, that's how it began its life actually, so it can definitely do what you are after while editing some video in as well.