Martin
443 posts
Aug 03, 2013
8:21 AM
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Is it possible for me to record something on Audacity with a backing track, meanwhile using the camera on my laptop, and then transfer the whole thing, pictures/sound, to You tube?
This laptop has no microphone, but I´ve found one that can be plugged into the machine -- or if I just use my standard harmonica mic?
If so, on a complication scale of 1 - 5, where are we roughly for an undertaking such as this?
I got really, really frustrated with Soundclick, despite the kind help from list-member nacoran and think that perhaps YT is an easier option to handle for a hopeless retard?
This may sound like a no-brainer to some of you, and I apologize, but I´m in hell in the high tech world.
Last Edited by Martin on Aug 03, 2013 8:23 AM
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Rick Davis
2190 posts
Aug 03, 2013
8:31 AM
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I think you'll need some video editing software to merge the video and audio together. I use VideoPad from NCH Software.
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Kingley
2966 posts
Aug 03, 2013
8:39 AM
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Yes, you'll need some kind of software to merge the audio and video. If you are new to it I'd suggest watching some YouTube videos or reading up online how to do merge audio and video. It's a pretty straight forward affair once you've got the basics down.
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nacoran
7008 posts
Aug 03, 2013
11:16 AM
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Windows Movie Maker, which is free if you have windows (you still have to download it though). It's pretty easy to use, maybe a 1.6 on the complication scale.
You basically drop files onto a timeline. The only tricky part is lining the audio and the video up just right so it doesn't look like a Kung-Fu video overdub, with the voices not right. A lot of people get around that by just using stills instead of video, or not taking video of them singing. If the lips aren't moving, they don't need to be synched up.
I made this video in about 15 minutes with almost no knowledge of Movie Maker:
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Martin
445 posts
Aug 03, 2013
6:43 PM
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nacoran: You are a monster. But I think I have Windows Movie Maker and I´ll look into it.
1.6! Wow.
Could be very promising, but I´m afraid I inhabit another universe than you: Nothing, abso-effing-lutely nothing has been a given since I started using a computer in 1988. (Had the same kind of instructions that we take for granted in the cyber world been prevalent in an earlier phase of the industrial revolution we´d still be riding horses: nobody would have understood a "car".)
@Rick Davis: Do you use the free version?
It says "edit from any camcorder" and I don´t even know what a camcorder is ... but that´s not a bigger issue: I just want it to be "easy".
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Rick Davis
2192 posts
Aug 03, 2013
6:50 PM
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Martin, no, I use the paid version. If Windows Movie Maker will do it for free I'd suggest going that route instead.
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Martin
447 posts
Aug 04, 2013
5:33 AM
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OK, thank you Rick.
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tookatooka
3423 posts
Aug 04, 2013
8:32 AM
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@Martin. Where are you? Have I asked you this before? I'll help if I can but to type out full instructions would take an age.
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Grey Owl
229 posts
Aug 04, 2013
9:46 AM
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Martin,
I would set your Laptop webcam to record, then start audacity and play along to your backing track. Stop audacity first at the end of the recording and then stop your laptop webcam. By the way in order to see The Audacity screen and the Wecam screen simultaneously, you may need to right click your mouse on a clear area of the taskbar at the bottom of your laptop screen and select Tile windows horizontally or Tile windows verticall as preferred
Next Save your video you've just recorded (giving it a name) somewhere convenient on your Laptop.
Next add any efffects you want to your audacity recording and save as Wav or mp3 sound file somewhere convenient on your Laptop.
Next open up Windows Movie Maker and import the video you previously saved above (note Windows Movie maker will not work with an Mp4 file - if that is what your webcam saves video as)
When you import your video it will break it up into a number small pieces of the whole video. (so you may have thumbnails of 10 or more parts of your video appear on the top part of the screen)next highlight them all (Ctrl and A on your keyboard will highlight the lot) then drag them down onto the 'video timeline' below and they will all appear there. Next (import audio/music) ie your Audacity mp3 or Wav and drag it down onto the audio bar on the timeline.
Next you have to go into (Tools - Audio levels) and move the slider towards the right to 'Audio/Music' so that all the sound is coming from your audacity audio rather than any sound that is picked up on your laptop mic.
Next bit is a bit trickier. As you started record on your laptop video before recording on Audacity the video will be longer than the audio track (and won't match up at the start) on the timeline so you will need to trim off the start of the video to match up where the audacity playback starts (I won't go into full details here but you drag a piece of the video (on the timeline) off with your mouse. You can make fine adjustments by nudging left or right access by one of the menu tabs ( i.e 'Clip' at the top of the screen) If you mess it up, no worries just undo (ie edit - undo) what you did and try again. Using the same process you can also trim unwanted extra video at the end of the recording)
Once you are happy everything is synched in video and sound, save to your pc giving it a name and using the 'recommended' save option they give you.
All this can take a little playing around with to get familar with it and there are youtube tutorials around. I would suggest recording a 30 sec trial vid/audacity recording and playing around with it.
Note there is a later product called Windows Live Movie Maker available on newer Windows platform ie windows 7 and this is not the same type of software as the one I referred to above so avoid looking at youtube tutorials for this as it looks a lot different from the older version and has different processes.
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Last Edited by Grey Owl on Aug 04, 2013 10:34 AM
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Martin
448 posts
Aug 04, 2013
10:23 AM
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@tookatooka: Sadly, I live in bloody Sweden. It´s tough but somebody´s gotta do it. And, IIRC, you were a Londoner. The generous thought is much appreciated though.
@Grey Owl: You deserve some kind of award! Really, how enormously decent of you to go through all this trouble for a total stranger.
Also, it almost looks as if even I could wrap my head around it (tomorrow, when the somewhat painful consequences of Saturday night has left that same head) so a very special thank you for the patience in stooping down to my level.
It´s hard being a technophobe in this day and age, and if it weren´t for the kindness of people like you I would still be sitting there with my cassette recorder from 1972.
Many thanks.
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tookatooka
3425 posts
Aug 05, 2013
4:14 AM
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May be something here which may be useful Martin. Minumum gear except videocam to film it.
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