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Entourage (anagrams of note and argue put together).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Bingo .... You are up for Monday
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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A while back I asked for some good video editors. I analyzed and weighed each option and tried ivsEdits LE first, but wasn't to my liking. Second I tried OpenShot. This works great, the only downside is that you need to install Blender and/or Inkscape for advanced titles and those work "buggy" at best. The basic "titling" works fine.
Vlogging was harder than I thought it would be (although I learned not to underestimate things).
GoPro
The Gopro I had was not living up my expectations. I admit the camera is somewhat battered in use, but still I wasn't getting the quality I wanted from it.
Camera
So it was back to my thrustworthy Canon EOS 7D. I truly love it and it still does the trick. I attached my microphone and started talking. That was also surprisingly difficult to do fluently (I had a fixed text) and ended up redoing the take several times.
Sound
Attaching a microphone solves the issue of "talking to softly" on video, but also records lots for noise. Here again I ended up in installing audacity with ffmpeg and Lame plugins to extract the sound channel from the video and correct it for noise.
resync
After you have the sound, via microphone or directly from my amp you need to resync it with the video. That's not so easy. Right now, I used the mouse to move my tracks in sync. I hope I can find a more fine-grained way to move a track a nod to the left/right.
All in all, nothing of this is rocket science, but it was a lot of finicking about.
Since some of you are going to ask me anyway:
The first result online is a demo video for guitar lessons on my webpage[^] the about tab. The acoustic guitar is recorded with an iRig microphone through my tablet. The electric guitar is through my H&K Grandmeister 40.
Note that the metronome clicks are recorded with the microphone, hence I'm wearing headphones 
So basically, thanks for all your advice 
(and in turn I hope this feedback helps others)
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So you finally used OpenShot ? This is still not clear to me.
Thanks for the feedback BTW.
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Yes, I finally chose OpenShot.
I also use Audacity and Windows Media player and GoPro Studio, but everything is finally fitted into OpenShot before release
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It can be quite a task to build decent videos.
Long ago I found Camtasia Studio and it was great for screen capture videos with annotations but it runs $300. It's quite nice and you can add all the text blurbs etc and do a lot of editing, but $300 was too pricey for my cheap self.
I had been searching a long time and finally I came upon Movavi. It's only $59.95 for the screen cap and the editing software together.
Amazon.com: Movavi Screen Capture & Video Editor 9 Personal Edition [Download]: Software[^]
I've used this for screen capture and then adding in all the text blurbs etc. but you can also use it for editing real videos and adding all the text call outs and all that stuff too.
It only took me about 15 minutes to learn how to do it. it does have a weird way of doing that stuff.
But the really cool thing is that it does all the formats. I an take a screen cap and save it to an animated gif, MP4 or whatever. A lot of them won't do animated gifs that easy.
Sample : My Android App
Here's a sample video at youtube that I made with the software which is a video of my cell phone with the text callouts. It's only 12 seconds long.
Vext - Android app reads your texts to you - YouTube[^]
modified 1-Feb-19 10:00am.
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A few bands ago we shot some videos for promotional purposes and synchronization was an issue. We realized that is why you see the "clapper" device used when shooting movies and shows. That is how professionals synch up the video and audio tracks.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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This one keeps skidding off into the weeds in all this snow...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That looks a lot like the young Alien
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Now that you say it, but I saw something different. I thought it was a bit too short and wondered where you can turn of the vibrations.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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No good for me. My wireless is high-powered, not medium.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks for that - I'll bear it in mind. I prefer wired, and that is clearly wireless. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They loved big guns. Putting one made for a warship on a tank already was idiotic, but they actually tried to put such a thing under an airplane.
I wonder who they were planning to shoot at?[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Münchhausen ! that explains it all 
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Yes, but refering to the story about riding a cannonball, not his lies.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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OriginalGriff wrote: This one keeps skidding off into the weeds in all this snow...
If you can still see weeds, you don't have all that much snow.
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Maggie Stiefvater on Twitter:
"Hotel clerk: looks up reservation did you know there’s an author with your same name?
Me: really
Clerk: yeah! I’ve read some of them!
Me: carefully are they any good?
Clerk: I loved the Raven Cycle!
Me: soooooooo I have something to tell you
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Okay, I was writing some code and noticed that I was using 'i','j', and 'k' for looping indices - it shook me that I still retained that habit.  Then I thought: "Who cares? They do the job" 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Who cares?
The next guy to look at the code after you. And that includes you in 2 weeks. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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If the next guy (or me) can't figure out what the 'i', or 'j' or 'k' is used for, then the need to get a different job (or take a FORTRAN course!).
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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