How do you sync audio and video?

Oh, no. It’s just a joke :slight_smile:

I did work at the Millerntor, long time ago, during my Bertelsmann days.

And when I moved from Köln to Hamburg, I always checked in at the Doll House every night via Facebook and told my wondering friends from Köln, that I work as a stripper now.

Many of my “party friends” believed it. I found that very funny… and I’m secretly very proud of that :slight_smile:

The best facts are not true!

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I believed you

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So did I :sweat_smile:

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@howard and @joergkutter Do you guys break the song into bits even when you are video-recording yourself playing? I’ve seen some of Jeorg’s covers and there are not cuts on the vid (just sips of tea when the bass line takes a break :rofl: ), so I am assuming you are recording the song in one take if you are video recording. If not, the vid doesn’t really match with the playing. I’m not playing songs that are as challenging as what you guys play, but I never even considered breaking the song down into parts while recording because I don’t want to have to cut up the vid recording.

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This is indeed a challenge, and, yes, I hope to get through with as few mistakes as possible. That is stressful. But, yes, you’re right, if you Milli-Vanilli it, it is just not as “authentic” and what apparently a lot of YouTubers tend to do :rofl: I really try not to do that!

I will try and video tape a playthrough for my latest tune soon, and we’ll see how that goes…

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I don’t video myself playing :slight_smile:

I don’t play covers to backing tracks; my buddy and I play everything ourselves.

Haven’t done one in a while though, TBH I am probably done with them and want to focus more on original stuff. I need to get on that though as for the last year or two I have just been noodling around.

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This is what I do - I shoot for 3-4 minor mistakes in a single video cut (no video editing). I go back and punch-in / punch-out the mistakes and play over the small bits (usually a note or two) recording over the small mistake (most DAWs have a punch in/out function, any size you like).

The mistakes have to be ones that are not obvious in the video, meaning, maybe a misfretted note or bad timing, but not something that then looks like I am playing something different than is being heard.

What I don’t do is record the entire audio of a song then try to record the video silently over it - this is as stressful as trying to get it 100% right in one take IMO.

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