Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/04/06 01:17

"Krazy Kanuck" wrote ...
> My music group is putting on a gig and I'm planning on taping it....due to
> our outrageously low budget...$0
> I'm planning on having my GL2 set up high with a (balanced) audio feed
> from the sound board and then just having it set to a wide shot to include
> the whole stage....I'm also planning on having a video-enthusiast friend
> who will be on, beside, close in front etc with his hand-held 3 chip
> Panasonic (don't know exactly what model) to do close-ups etc.
> I was going to just tell him to turn the camcorder on at the start of a
> set (like the stationary one) and let it go to get one continuious tape
> (also like the stationary one)
> I plan to try to match up the audio and use video from both sources in
> Premiere Pro.....Is there a feature that might let the audio "snap" to
> sync with each other? I believe Liquid Ed. has some feature like this?
> Any other suggestions and tips from you pros are most welcome....thanks in
> advance...

I've never found this to be all that difficult, even without any kind
of "automatic feature". Espcially if you are familiar with the music.
Good luck. Its fun.

You might consider trying to mix some ambient (i.e. audience)
sound in with the "sterile" board-feed. Otherwise, you'll see the
audience on the video, but not hear them. This is frequently
creepy. Or at least record the board feed on one channel and
ambience (even from the camcorder mic) on the other channel,
etc.

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