Video from Red Poppy Art House show

There is a TON of video available from our live show last weekend at The Red Poppy Art House in SF, but getting it edited and up on the web is turning out to be a bigger task than I ever imagined. The sheer number of choices inside the editing software for codecs, frame rate, and aspect ratio is simply mind-boggling. And when you finally get something rendered, the way it looks on your PC may or may not have anything to do with how it looks once it's up on some share site and streaming back at you through any number of browsers. Holy CRAP!




We had two HD video cameras running, recording both audio and video, as well as my digital event recorder onstage. This means we ended up with an "A" and a "B" roll, as well as three tracks of stereo sound, to work with in post.

The sound captured from the cameras surprised me. I was expecting the usual boomy, out-of-phase murkiness that I have experienced in the past, but these are brand new HD cameras that fall into the "serious hobbyist" category, as I was told by someone who knows about these things. So we ended up with three stereo signals that I was able to equalize for boosted treble and bass and then pan hard Left, Middle and hard Right in the final stereo mix. It sounds much richer and fuller than I could have imagined, and if you listen to it through headphones with your eyes closed, it's almost like being there.

Which you should have been - SHAME ON YOU if you missed our show! It was a lot of fun and most likely will be our only live performance for 2011. I'll try to post more of the footage as it comes out of the editing bench.

And don't forget - Our video for Girls Who Drink will be releasing in sometime in August. If you can't wait that long, your can always log into CD Baby and download the audio track. It's only 50 cents!

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