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Offline violinist

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Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
on: February 11, 2008, 04:46:25 PM
I'm looking to record my piano playing:  practice and performance.

Anyone out there love their video camera?

How does it do with:  Dynamics?  Quality of sound?  Ability to download to the computer and then onto Youtube?

Thanks!!!
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Offline quantum

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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #1 on: February 11, 2008, 08:57:20 PM
I don't own one, but had to operate one to make a friends audition tape.  Because it was MiniDV transfer to PC was fairly easy with Firewire. 

I recorded the audio separately with a pair of condenser mics, then dubbed the audio over in the editing software.  I did this to give improved quality audio over what a consumer vid camera can obtain.
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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 04:53:13 PM
I agree. Replacing the sound of the video camera with proper microphones is a good bet, especially since the sound that you are analyzing in your playing has to be of optimum quality.
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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #3 on: February 13, 2008, 10:23:31 AM
Quote from: quantum on February 11, 2008, 08:57:20 PM
I don't own one, but had to operate one to make a friends audition tape.  Because it was MiniDV transfer to PC was fairly easy with Firewire. 

I recorded the audio separately with a pair of condenser mics, then dubbed the audio over in the editing software.  I did this to give improved quality audio over what a consumer vid camera can obtain.

Which editing software do you use? I tried with Windows movie maker but I couldn't figure out how to dub the audio over.
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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #4 on: February 13, 2008, 02:12:14 PM
Camtesia allows a bit more independence, as you can view and edit the sound track as a separate channel. That's the route that I take.
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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #5 on: February 14, 2008, 02:00:24 AM
Quote from: pianowolfi on February 13, 2008, 10:23:31 AM
Which editing software do you use? I tried with Windows movie maker but I couldn't figure out how to dub the audio over.

I used Vegas
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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #6 on: February 21, 2008, 09:53:11 PM
I use a Canon MiniDv camera.
I transfer the videos to PC by a firewire cable.
Sometimes I record the audio with a better microphone (with a good sound card) and I add it to the video track in a video editing software.
However, if you want just upload your performance to youtube you can also record your videos with a simple photo camera that has a good resolutions (800 X 600 pixel or less too).
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Re: Recommendations: Video camera for Piano Performance Recording?
Reply #7 on: March 06, 2008, 12:46:21 PM
Hi - as a music student I post on youtube to help with performance feedback etc.  I have a pretty old digital camera (7 years infact!) but it's easy to transfer to pc with firewire.  ;D

If you want to check out the sound quality you can view me at www.youtube.com/suzyandmac

I have previously tried recording audio on my mobile & on a digital dictophone but to be honest the playback was terrible!

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