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I can try to copy them one by one in a post, if anybody's interested?

It's a long series of individual tweets by Howard Goodall which are hard to follow even for those who are on Twitter. Very silly choice of media for divulging his information, I must say.

One of the three new originals by Damo And The Dynamites should be played by DJ Lucky Lost Rockers on https://rockin247radio.com/ in his one-hour long programme at 9pm on the first Sunday of the month, in our case 6th Dec. We're sending him MP3s we've registered and ISRC-stamped, but we're also preparing a Press Kit to send to him and other DJs and websites, for which we are preparing the videos as well. They will need to be ISRC-stamped in due course, after which we can publish them.

We still record video and audio with each device, then choose which one has the best audio track and use that for the final video. Of course we could hook up the XR18 to the tablet, or even better to Jack's PC on stage, and record the audio through there, but that would imply us micing and connecting to it each and every bit of the drumkit, and do a lot of extra audio mixing, which TBH we're not too keen on doing...

Our Lockdown 2.0 panic buy includes yet another Zoom video recording device, the Zoom Q2n 4k (arriving this week), to add to my much-maligned but usable Zoom Q2n non-4k. We've also dug out Jack's very old Zoom Q2 low res camera, whose quality and field size are rather poor but, again, usable in certain settings. We're unlikely to use all of those video cameras, plus my normal main one, in more than a handful of pubs or small venues, but if we get the opportunity, we're ready. The only bottleneck will be yours truly: there's only one of me, spreading myself thin operating the sound engineering tablet, the manual video camera, the manual photo camera, plus any of those little automatic video* devices, which in theory only need keeping an eye on so they don't get nicked... Edit: not just video, I've got a Zoom H1n for audio too! 😱

No longer - it's now in the correct place!

I thought this one was about our OCD being triggered by things that are not quite right - but trivial and/or possibly fixable - as opposed to what we don't like in a bass?

Dot inlays (in general). Dot inlays, especially when they don't align with the strings. Non-adjustable nuts. Ball-ends resting at different angles in the bridge slots. Misaligned silk wrappings on the headstock. Double bass bridges at an angle that's not 90 degrees to the top. Double bass bridges not aligned with the notches in the F holes, and/or not centred between them. Misaligned silk wrappings (if present) at the tailpiece, and in the scroll. I am very OCD...

I had no idea someone could have a reCaptcha reputation! WTF is that?? 😮

Reading this thread with interest. You all have perfectly sensible points. I am also surprised that those agents don't think the "tit factor" actually makes mixed bands easier to sell. However, there is also the possibility that clients may go "Oh, no, not another girly-fronted band singing about girly stuff, we want proper rock/indie/whatever for our do." Both the tit factor and not-another-girly concepts are obviously sexist crap, but we're talking business here, not writing a feminist essay. I'm baffled and intrigued.

"So, Mr Jamerson, I'm afraid you're not flashy enough... Next!"

And... *grammar pedant alert* Can I ask since when the past tense and past participle of the verb 'broadcast' are in the form 'broadcasted'? Or is it me having learned the damn thing wrongly? 🤔

I now have clapboard GAS. 😱😎

We're dealing with so many bands here, that if one did break up, the others would make up for its disappearance! In Tier 1 areas. Always do tier 1 areas. 😉

That's sort of my point, when I rejected the crippled version of Premiere (now uninstalled from my machine). It will all depend on how much money we choose to throw at this particular exercise.

This, almost verbatim, is what we said to each other.

GAS by another name...

Thanks @Dad3353, I'm dropping the whole matter in Hubby's lap. I think I'm going to stand back and watch from now on.

I agree, but I'm against having to do the trimming, which Pro would save me.

Done that search and found a lot of advice on MANUALLY doing the work? Not automatically. And don't mention the dropping of snippets in the main video... 😉

The snippet you drop in the main video under Elements overwrites the whole of the remaining main video. Even if the snippet is 30 frames and the main video is 10 minutes long. Horrible and stupid. Edit: the only other option is to insert instead of overwriting, which leaves you with having to trim afterwards.

@BigRedX, I see your point, but Jack took early retirement to dedicate himself to music and any other hobby he has - that may well include preparing videos for his bands. I'm lucky enough to be semi-retired, so I've also got time to do these things, assuming they're not too frustrating. I am already the bands' official photoshopper... Given the current dearth of gigs, and especially of paid gigs, it wouldn't be fair to ask the bands to stump up for a pro to do a very simple job - we're not trying to make a George Michael video here - that we can do ourselves if we have the patience to try some software and learn to use it. @EBS_freak, thanks for that. While our machines aren't quite state-of-the-art, mine at least has a passable 16GB of RAM, a decent hard disk, Windows 10, lots of external storage, and seems to cope all right with anything I've thrown at it so far. I don't mind waiting, say, 3 minutes instead of 1 to save a file, as long as it saves correctly and the program has enabled me to do what I wanted to do with the video. Current state of play: Jack is testing one of you guys' suggestions on his machine, while I've spent the last hour tinkering with Premiere Elements and have decided that the damn thing is so crippled it's not worth having. What we basically want to do is have one main video, sync its audio with a better quality external file if available, and overwrite a few frames of the main video, here and there, with snippets from a different camera. That means we need quick or automatic audio syncing, and a decent overlay feature that only overwrites the same number of frames on the main video as those contained in the snippet we add. Can I do either in Premiere Elements? Can I hell. Both features are very much available in the Pro version, but emphatically not in Elements. It's the equivalent of having to buy proper Photoshop, as opposed to Elements, if you wanted to get rid of a photo's background, or do something equally basic. Total bust, not worth spending a penny on. If Jack ends up not being impressed with any of the free software he's testing, the next decision we'll have to take is whether we're going to want to do enough video work on the bands' material to justify me getting an effing subscription* to effing Premiere Pro. 😉🙄😄 * Pro doesn't seem to be available as a desktop-only application. Anyone know otherwise? Many thanks to all of you who are giving us advice and patiently reading our rants on here!

I'll leave that task to hubby then. It's something I absolutely hate doing.

Got that Paul - unfortunately it's a major PITA for what we need to do, because the audio/video sync is again only manual. However, at least it's free.