I have spent most of today trying to understand and streamline the processes I am looking to use to enhance my online presence. The goal for today specifically was to get a couple of practice videos posted on my Youtube Channel. I got that done a few minutes ago but there were several things that sidetracked me throughout the process. The intent when I started working on this process a couple of weeks ago was, among other things, to facilitate my music lessons since they have been moved to an online format. It is my desire to set up my studio so that I can do multi angle video recording and as I was searching for a multi camera solution I came across the Corel Video Studio product which contains a program called MultiCam Capture Lite so I downloaded a trial version and recorded a practice performance to see if it would do what I wanted. I was reasonably happy with the result except the trial version was limited to only two sources - two cameras or a camera and the computer screen. I transferred the resultant videos to my OneDrive so I could share them with my piano teacher but subsequently discovered that the file sizes were so large that it was impractical. Still, it gave me the ability to capture two angles and offered at least six with $19.99 upgrade. I wanted to confirm some licensing concerns with the company so I initiated a chat session and discovered that I would have to buy the whole package which would run a minimum of $79.99 plus the $19.99 upgrade for the part that I wanted. I have deferred that decision and am trying to determine if I can just use Streamlab's OBS Studio to do the capture. Still, I managed to take the files I captured and run them through Handbrake to reduce the file sizes from around 2.5 GB each to just about 200 MB for each resultant mp4 file. I then imported them into Premier Pro to simultaneously display both angles for each performance and got those uploaded. I was going to edit another video to use as an introduction to the Youtube channel but it appears that due to not using a constant bit rate encoding the audio and video were not in sync when imported into Premier Pro. I have yet to verify that Handbrake was able to correct that issue but, except for couple of hours studying Spanish and about an hour this morning playing the piano and drums, that is essentially what I have spent most of today doing. Yesterday, among other things, I managed to transcribe 'Arkansas Traveler' for guitar with tablature using Finale and now I must prepare for a Spanish test. If my plans work out I should be streaming live by this summer and have my online presence, including this website, the letspracticemusic.com website, and the Youtube Channel at a reasonably functional level that can be easily maintained by the time school starts again next fall.
