The Tourist Company at Biltmore Cabaret 29 May 2015
8 videos • 126 views • by model3man All of these songs were performed at the Biltmore Cabaret on the evening of the 29th May 2015. Now, you might be interested in the equipment and the method used to video the performance, so here are the basic details. I used a GoPro pole with two iPhones attached. Using a split bracket, I mounted my iPhone 6 Plus to take the video footage. I just used the regular camera app, but as you may know, the iPhone 6 Plus has OPTICAL image stabilization. That means that even if my hand shakes slightly after holding it that long, those slight shakes are smoothed out and do not appear in the video. Oh - of course - I put the iPhones into AIRPLANE mode! Can you imagine the disaster if an incoming call interrupted the video capture process! Now, on the same GoPro pole, I mounted a second iPhone 6 (my wife's phone), and attached to its charging port is the RODE iOS stereo pro microphone - a wonderful wide-frequency mic that picks up the full stereo effect of the concert. (http://www.rode.com/microphones/ixy). Two advantages are 1) the fact that it can record at 96Khz (which is a higher frequency than the iPhone's native recording capability), and 2) that I can set the levels manually and not be held hostage by the awful Automatic Levels control of the iphone's native microphone. So, once the concert is over, I upload the audio track to my iMac, followed by the video footage from my 6 Plus, and before I join them together, I move the audio track into Adobe Audition - a pretty useful audio-editing program that allows me to shape the sound thanks to a variety of filters that let me live-proof the sound changes on the fly. So, I use filters like the 30 channel equalizer, the Stereo effect filter, the compression filter and so on, and then carefully adjust the levels of both channels so they are equal, and make sure there is no peaking. Once the track has been enhanced, I save it as a WAV file, and then bring it into iMovie on the iMac and align the audio track with the video track. I will make some minor modifications to the video (mid tone brightening, colour saturation effects - but nothing major), and then I share (or export) the track to a file which I save on the computer. I find it is more successful to upload to YouTube via the web browser than to do so directly from iMovie. While it may seem convenient to upload directly from within iMovie, it often takes an inordinate amount of time and then crashes before it is complete. So, I simply make the files and store them on the computer, then go into YouTube via Chrome browser and upload them with no troubles at all. Anyway, hope you all enjoy these snapshots of an amazing band that richly deserves success. So, please feel free to share this playlist via Facebook, Twitter or any other social media app you use. For your convenience, here is the playlist URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Thanks for watching and don't forget to LIKE the clips if you enjoy them.