hesitz wrote:elings wrote:Hi there!
Can you suggest some ways to record myself playing without post-editing or syncing?
I'm not clear on exactly what you're doing.
But are you aware that you can do a "Screen record" on iPhone and that will record the system audio as well as the video? You can extract the audio from the resulting file you get if that's all you want. It's not the most efficient, since the file it records includes video and will be quite large, but apart from that it works to record the audio on the phone. However, i don't think you'll be able to use the iPhone to record a video of yourself at the same time, if that's what you were trying to do.
Yes, it is possible. You can enable the background audio mode in Pianoteq first and then switch to the camera app. Then you can make a screen recording of your camera and start playing. The sound from Pianoteq will be included in the screen recording then.
Something I always do (but I’m not sure if it’s necessary) is that I switch back to the Pianoteq app and load the latest file under “recently played on the keyboard” (the first entry is what you played on the piano when you made your screen recording). I then save the Pianoteq recording as a WAVE file. This way I can sync the audio with the screen recording later in iMovie which I think I can only do by hand (at least in the iPhone version of iMovie). I do that because I want to make sure that I get the best possible audio quality.
To be able to move the audio inside iMovie and to avoid that it will snap back to the beginning all the time you have to separate the audio from the video first and then select the added audio file from Pianoteq. You have to make sure that you use it as foreground audio (I hope that this is what it says in the English version).
It works very well for me – however, this method has a disadvantage: You have to cut away some of the screen recording before you import the screen recording into iMovie. This is because it’s not a normal video so you record everything that’s on the screen, including the camera buttons! I usually set the format to original format (it probably says something different in English – I’m from Germany so I can only see the German descriptions) or to 16:9 and then zoom into the video until the buttons etc aren’t visible anymore. It might be possible that the video quality gets slightly worse because you only use a cut-out of the screen recording. But what I describe here is the only method that I know of – maybe there are also other ways to do it but I don’t know them.
I know that it sounds very complicated but it’s actually not that difficult to do.
