Youtube Help. Playalong Covers.

santucci218 · #1 04-24-2011, 10:40 AM

Ok guys. So im kind of new to uploading stuff on youtube. I wanted to just make a few vids of me covering some songs on guitar. I was going to use my webcam to record the video. That I can do. But I wanted to use my firebox as the audio input and mic my cab and my computer speakers so they can hear the song. Or, even if it was better quality, I could load the song into cubase and playalong with that. I just need to know of a, hopefully free, program that I can record this stuff on my desktop and then sync the audio and video or something like that. As for right now I just go to youtube and press record, but it wont let me use 2 inputs on my firebox.

Muzoid · #2 04-24-2011, 10:52 AM

Well....as much as playlongs on youtube are annoying as crap.

Here are a list of things you apparently need to do

1) Headless....you must only show yourself from the neck down.

2) Make sure your instrument is 500% louder than what you're playing to

3) Make a bunch of excuses before you start, like "I haven't really practiced", "my fingers are a bit sore" or some sort of apology for the crappy sound quality.

4) Fart sometime during the playalong....we need some actual entertainment value after all.

5) Make sure to have lots of people who are not even paying attention to you walking around in the background aimlessly

6) Play it "almost" like it's supposed to be, and play sloppy

Hope this helps

santucci218 · #3 04-24-2011, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Muzoid

Hope this helps

It doesn't

ShredderMaximus · #4 04-24-2011, 11:46 AM

The way I've done it when i recorded my ex-guitarist was since we had 2 computers, was using my laptops webcam I would record video, and then on his computer he recorded the guitar with the track playing through the recording program also, and when we got the good take he would mixdown the track, which was now the original song + his guitars, then transfer it to my laptop via portable HD where I then threw both into a video editing program. Since in the beginning of the recording I made sure we had an audio and visual que in (I clapped in front of the webcam while at the same time he wacked his strings while palm muting, just to get the in time "thud" to sync with my clapping) it was fairly easy to sync. After that, trim of the beginning where you qued yourself in, and you just go through the necessary steps your editing program requires to export video and your good to upload!

Our results- YouTube - Silent Night Bodom Night Cover-Guitar

P.s. if your computer can handle recording video AND audio at the same time without giving you any latency issues, than disregard half of the previous statement.

And sorry it was so long, I don't know much of the technical jargon to keep it shorter.

Sonic_Death · #5 04-24-2011, 12:09 PM

For a while I used my digital camera to record me playing through my amp and the song playing on my speakers.

Recently I switched to using my Firepod interface which has worked pretty well. What I've been doing is recording the video with my digital camera as I am recording my bass into Cubase LE4 (with the mp3 loaded into cubase to play along to).

After that, I upload the movie file from my camera to the computer and audio export the track from cubase as an mp3 (after I've mixed the levels, of course). Then it's all Windows Movie Maker from there. Just upload everything into it and sync the video & audio on the timeline.

Syncing is really easy to do if you have a song with some intro.. for songs that start right away, I've found it slightly more difficult.

santucci218 · #6 04-24-2011, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonic_Death

For a while I used my digital camera to record me playing through my amp and the song playing on my speakers.

Recently I switched to using my Firepod interface which has worked pretty well. What I've been doing is recording the video with my digital camera as I am recording my bass into Cubase LE4 (with the mp3 loaded into cubase to play along to).

After that, I upload the movie file from my camera to the computer and audio export the track from cubase as an mp3 (after I've mixed the levels, of course). Then it's all Windows Movie Maker from there. Just upload everything into it and sync the video & audio on the timeline.

Syncing is really easy to do if you have a song with some intro.. for songs that start right away, I've found it slightly more difficult.

That seems nice and easy. Besides the fact that my camera battery may die mid song or something, haha.

Sonic_Death · #7 04-24-2011, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by santucci218

That seems nice and easy. Besides the fact that my camera battery may die mid song or something, haha.

Last week I was trying to do an Opeth cover. I typically don't look directly into the camera because I think it looks awkward when people do that during covers... the issue was that my camera died halfway through the song and I didn't notice. Covering 10 minute song can be a pain haha.

BTW, you can check out my latest PTH cover here: YouTube - Protest The Hero - Hair Trigger Bass Cover. You were a fan from what I recall.

santucci218 · #8 04-24-2011, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sonic_Death

Last week I was trying to do an Opeth cover. I typically don't look directly into the camera because I think it looks awkward when people do that during covers... the issue was that my camera died halfway through the song and I didn't notice. Covering 10 minute song can be a pain haha.

BTW, you can check out my latest PTH cover here: YouTube - Protest The Hero - Hair Trigger Bass Cover. You were a fan from what I recall.

aah man! I just checked out a few of your viddys. You nailed em! If I had a 5 string I'd try a few PTH basslines. Ill stick to the guitar parts for now. Opeth too! Another great choice.

**cheezewiz** · #9 04-24-2011, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muzoid

Well....as much as playlongs on youtube are annoying as crap.

Here are a list of things you apparently need to do

1) Headless....you must only show yourself from the neck down.

2) Make sure your instrument is 500% louder than what you're playing to

3) Make a bunch of excuses before you start, like "I haven't really practiced", "my fingers are a bit sore" or some sort of apology for the crappy sound quality.

4) Fart sometime during the playalong....we need some actual entertainment value after all.

5) Make sure to have lots of people who are not even paying attention to you walking around in the background aimlessly

6) Play it "almost" like it's supposed to be, and play sloppy

Hope this helps

Yes THIS!

I actually watched a few yesterday, and each and every one was prefaced by, "I've actually played this a lot better before", I'll get a new video up of me nailing this soon", "i learned this when I was 14 and am just trying to remember it as I recorded it" etc. If I was into this thing, I think if I was capable of really nailing a song, I wouldn't put the video up until I actually did!

Skitch it! · #10 04-24-2011, 01:59 PM

I bought a cheap Kodak Zi6 off the bay to play around with, wish I'd bought the Zi8 with an external mic input though. Easy way of doing it, no syncing just plug and play, the tracks are just for ref for hand positions and such if anyone is interested in learning those tunes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Era3-XEhC8k

Kwesi · #11 04-24-2011, 02:10 PM

Unfortunately, there is no software that will sync audio with video for you. You have to do it manually. It's not that difficult actually. In all of my vids I record the audio and video completely separately and sync them later. I record audio into whatever DAW I happen to be using (Ableton Live, Garageband or Logic) and the video goes into whatever video camera I'm using and then I export the audio as a .wav and combine the two in Final Cut (used to use iMovie and for playalongs it's just as good). It takes more work than just recording via webcam but the quality is totally worth it. High quality = more people staying to watch the entire video. My personal philosophy was that I wanted the worst thing in my video to be my playing, lol. The audio and video quality I wanted good enough that it didn't subtract from the overall experience.

Tim Cole · #12 04-24-2011, 10:20 PM

fail

YouTube - Running With The Devil Bass Cover

Muzoid · #13 04-24-2011, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Cole

fail

YouTube - Running With The Devil Bass Cover

He must have read my list - hahaha

...an added a bag of Doritos.....hmm, very creative!

Classic Fail....nice find!

Happynoj · #14 04-25-2011, 07:38 AM

I use Windows Movie Maker. Came with XP. It's really simple, but I can record directly into it from my webcam. I have Cubase open at the same time, with the song I'm covering imported, and record the bass while filming the video. I then use Cubase's paramentric EQ to take as much of the original bass out, and adjust balance between original track and my bass. Export the audio from Cubase, import into WMM, sync them up, then export the finished video and sling it onto YouTube.

Something to watch out for if you use WMM - it records the video in WMV format, and for some reason, the video won't quite line up with MP3s, so I have to export my audio as WMA to make it fit. It comes out a fraction of a second shorter in WMA. No idea why.

If anyone is interested in my vids, my YouTube username is the same as here.