Thanks so much for this! I can’t imagine the work doing this required, but it
was so worth it! We may be sequestered, but some of us are so very creative!
Sandi
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Hello Bookshareians,
The New York Philharmonic, each member in their own homes and each one
listening to a metronome with earphones, played Ravel’s Bolero. These
individual recordings were then merged and the individual video tracks
consolidated into a video image which shows what instruments are playing at any
given time. All done with free software. See the note below. The results are on
YouTube. This effort is dedicated to all the health-care and other essential
workers who are working during the Covid-19 emergency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3UW218_zPo ;
Note these credits:
Video/Audio Editing by New York Philharmonic bass Isaac Trapkus;
Audio Editing by Assistant Principal Timpani/Percussion Kyle Zerna
Below is an explanation that appears in the comments posted to YouTube:
"Thank you everyone for your kind words and comments! We saw a lot of people
asking how this was made so here is a quick walk-through: Everyone recorded
themselves while listening to a metronome in headphones. The two of us
musicians that put this together had no video making experience, just a lot of
determination! All the software we used is available for free. We used VLC
player to extract all the audio from the video and Handbrake to convert and
compress the videos if they were too large or in a strange format. We used
Audacity to remove background noise, align and balance all the audio, and mix
it all down into one track. Finally, we used HitFilm Express ('Express' is the
free version of HitFilm and similar to iMovie) to align all the video clips and
chop them up into different groupings. You could use any video program though
and there was nothing about HitFilm that made any of the group shots easier.
Using a newish laptop it took 6 hours just to render the video of the 20 second
group shot at the end but it can be done without super-fancy equipment. That
and many "how do I..." google searches got us across the finish line! Best
wishes from the NY Philharmonic musicians to you all and stay well!"
