Rough Cuts #7 - my cover of "Shine" by Collective Soul

Nature conspired to stop me from getting this video posted this weekend, but I have prevailed. Not as prevalently as I would have liked... I really wanted to do some multitrack audio for this one, but alas, I'm out of time.

Like other videos, I'm just using multiple video recording sources, then syncing and blending them all together. For this one, I have the old Sony Cybershot camera, an LG Rebel4 phone, and a Motorola E6 phone.

This is my newest recording, and originally was meant to get a lot more attention, but I've had a touch of the 'rona, and after 3 takes, I decided my vocals just aren't good enough right now for an 'official' cut. For my first 'official' recording, I think I'll use this format, but instead of playing and singing all at once, I'll do the music and vocals in separate videos.

The biggest problem I had to overcome this weekend was resurrecting the old desktop. For reasons I still haven't determined, the newest linux kernel update broke my Ubuntu system on the old frankenstein build, and I've been sampling linux distros ever since, looking for something that plays friendly with my 12 year old hardware. I've also been updating firmware, adding memory, replacing my mouse...

Once I finally got something working, I decided to try the latest version of OpenShot, and it had a cool new feature for tiling all of the video streams on one screen, which is why we have the cool new look.

This video sounds kind of awful, but I'm trying to keep a schedule, so here it is anyway. I hope you manage to sit through the whole thing!

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