[Paul Abrahams]

Glad I found your post I was having Kittens trying to figure out all the mumbo jumbo on shooting music video. Syncing by sight or ear is the way to go, being a musician syncing tracks for me is easy. A bit scary for the uninitiated I suppose.

One thing I have trouble finding in my research is Mobile Audio playback. I’m looking at using a Ghetto Blaster (I think thats what they called them) under battery power for following glidecam shots. Hopefully enough spill will be picked up by the camera mic, if not I may have to attach a long cable and not trip over it…. LOL.

As far as cueing up the audio on the shoot, I’m going to cut up the song in sections with lead in and tail out to match planned shots. Probably better than skipping through the whole song trying to find sections by ear. I’ll also be attempting some slo-mo, double tempo and timelapse pretty ambitious for my first one. If all goes well I’ll blog about it for other noobs.

Richard, have you ever done any Music Videos for a band called ‘The Reels’ or were you involved with countdown or hey hey or any TV stations?

cheers