Have you ever heard the expression... "Use the right tool for the job"....?

That applies here.

No laptop has an "excellent" sound card for recording multitrack. Yeah it sounds good but it can't do multitrack very well, especially if you're using midi in there somewhere.

My suggestion is to use or try to use REAL BAND to record the audio track. If you have BB, you got RB with it. Use it to get the audio sounding right. Generally, I do not recommend using a USB mic due to timing and clocking issues between the USB mic (a soundcard in itself) and the laptop's soundcard which is likely running MME drivers. They can't be synced properly and tracks will at times drift out of sync.

However, give it a try. If that fails, the proper hardware for the job is a dedicated, external USB connected musical interface that runs ASIO for it's driver.

If the camera you use now gives you good quality video, no need to get new camera gear. I have used a FLIP video camera to do most of my home made video recording.

Then, once you have the audio sounding good, use any of the movie maker video type software to insert the video. Play along with the song and when you can play it 99.9% accurately start to finish, use that take or do segments that fade in and out from various angles. Using the segments lets you cover and remove mistakes in the video sync with the music.

This Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlNHrbyeCxE

was done the exact way I just described above. I recorded the audio first in my multitrack DAW (Sonar) then I video taped several segments of the song and spliced them together in Windows Movie Maker. The editing on this was a bit sloppy since things are a bit out of sync in places..... but you get the idea as to what and how you can do things if you take your time and think it through a bit first.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 07/07/16 04:41 AM.
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