[LAU] video <> sound synchronization

[Ken Restivo]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:07:46AM -0500, drew Roberts wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2008 00:29:36 Ken Restivo wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:14:00AM -0500, frank pirrone wrote:
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> > > Ken Restivo wrote:
> > > > As an expeirment, over a year ago, I plugged my fretless guitar into
> > > > my FastTrack Pro USB interface, loaded up Ardour on my laptop, set up
> > > > a cheap digital camera to film, and simultaneously filmed and
> > > > recorded myself playing some blues. It was an experiment to see how
> > > > easy it would be to sync the Ardour-recorded audio up with the video,
> > > > using Avidemux on Linux. Worked great and was quite simple to do. I
> > > > posted the results here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZuE2LWLXMc
> > > >
> > > > And, over the past year, that cheesy little off-hand experiment has
> > > > been by far the most successful thing I've done musically *in my
> > > > entire life*.
> > > >
> > > > 16,473 views so far-- more than any music I've ever made. I'm
> > > > baffled. I have no idea why such a simple, unremarkable, and almost
> > > > cliche'ed thing would have become so popular, but nonetheless it is,
> > > > in defiance of all rationality.
> > > >
> > > > -ken
> > >
> > > I dunno, Ken.  Greater departure from conventional than the groovy
> > > funkalicious stuff you've done on keyboard/bass?
> > >
> > > Blue LEDs could have been Herbie Hancock playing, but for as
> > > complimentary as that observation may be, folks have heard stuff like
> > > that before.
> >
> > Yeah, but that's my point.
> >
> > Blues is as old as the hills, and quite possibly ten times as common. There
> > are great blues guitarists within hailing distance of practically everyone.
> >
> > Why anyone-- let alone 16,000 people-- would have wanted to hear me play
> > blues, is a mystery to me.
> 
> It's just not that many people on the youtube scale of things. (I still think 
> it might be fun for Packet In to try for a youtube hit...)
> 
> Over 7,000 wanted to see my and my paper plane take on a UFO:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmzWrGoNrM
> 
> and over 23,000 wanted to see me make a paper plane:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls1QealrmLk
> 
> Mind you, I understand your puzzleation as I too can't figure why the 
> popularities rank as they do for my stuff.
> 
> >

That's hilarious. And exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about.

I guess that explanation makes sense. Maybe YouTube's viewership is just so insanely huge that even mundane things get huge viewerships.

But then again, I'm confused. Paper airplanes and blues guitar get huge viewershihps, but stuff that people really work on getting right and spend money on, gets no viewership? I have friends who've put big money and time into YouTube stuff and gotten nowhere with it. So it just doesn't compute.

Sure, make a video of one of the Packet In songs and put it up there. I'd reckon that you have some nice scenery around where you live that'd make a good video backdrop.

-ken