What are you guys using for recording videos of you playing electric guitar?

[JasonE]

I just started trying to make some videos. I got a recommendation for OBS software that will allow me to record or stream if I decide to do that. I started trying to record a couple of videos this weekend of me playing something. I am having an issue with latency. This is on my brand new powerhouse of a Mac Studio. I know it isn't the computer. I have my Kemper plugged into the SPDIF port on my interface. I have a pretty high end RME interface. I don't have any issues when monitoring from the RME application. It is only when I mute that and monitor from OBS. If I try to monitor from the RME application the timing of my playing is off from a track that I have in OBS that I am playing along with. I tried adjusting bit rates and buffers and nothing working to eliminate it.

That led me to trying to just record the video with OBS and using GarageBand or Logic to put the track in and then my guitar and record the audio separate from the video. This is going to make for a lot more work. I will have to export the audio and bring both into Final Cut Pro to delete the audio form the video and sync the audio from Logic to the video. I will also have to start two applications before I start the track and playing with it, then stop both. I liked the idea of being able to do it all in OBS directly but I don't think I can make that work with the latency I am experiencing.

I thought about trying to do it all with Final Cut Pro but for some reason it only wants to recognize one of the cameras I have connected to the system. Everything else sees both. I may be willing to purchase another program if I could get something that I can do everything in one application. I don't know if Davinci Resolve can do it or not.

 

[LP59]

That led me to trying to just record the video with OBS and using GarageBand or Logic to put the track in and then my guitar and record the audio separate from the video.

That's the usual way to do it. Final Cut Pro will automatically sync the audio with the video clips for you. You may want to do some audio mastering in Logic anyway.

 

[Genghis]

I haven’t tried this, but I have a buddy that uses multiple webcams and opens several instances of QuickTime for video and records the audio into Logic, then syncs the camera videos to the Logic mixdown in Final Cut. Not sure of all of the other details in his process.

I generally use Logic for my audio and sync to video from cameras and phones myself, but haven’t done anything with more than two or three camera angles yet.

 

[DrewJD82]

I just record videos with my iPhone then Airdrop them into my iMac then drag them into Logic to line up with the audio. When it asks about the project time or video rate I select 30d, but I honestly can't remember why anymore because it's been years since I started doing it.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I'm either recording video on my android phone, or on desktop webcam via the standard windows camera app.
Audio playback/recorded in Reaper.
Drag/Drop video into Reaper for lining up, mixing and editing.

Here's one my son and I did a week ago using my phone and his webcam as the cameras:

 

[[Nathan]]

There’s a few scenarios I have when I record/play. If I just want to noodle on the guitar or play to a backing track then for the audio side of things I’ll use reaper (any daw works). For you you’d have the kemper coming in on a spdif track and your other audio like the backing track would be on another track. Hit play and play along, your guitar and the backing track will all be in time with each other. You’re not using the rme monitoring direct for this one.

I’ll also have obs recording but I’m not listening to the audio. My daw audio is being fed to obs via loopback in the rme, so it’s being recorded I just don’t hear it.

When I’m done recording I’ll put the video file into Davinci resolve (free version is 98% the same as paid version, crazy powerful amazing software). It should all line up but if it’s off for some reason just nudge the video left or right til it’s all in synch. Once that’s aligned you can trim things down and export the final video.

if you don’t have loopback you can do the same thing but hit record in your daw and then when you’re done recording you can export the audio and pull that into resolve to synch to the video.

 

[JasonE]

I did some testing last night. I did run the audio of my guitar into OBS but I turned the monitoring off. I then put the track and my guitar through SPDIF into Logic. After I stopped both programs, I dragged the video file into Logic. It asked me if I wanted to split out the audio and I answered yes. It then gave me a message about the video being in 60 fps and told me the project was set to something different. I chose to use the 60 fps from the video. That worked pretty well. This is probably going to be the way I go.

I did try a couple of other things tonight but none of them really worked, especially not as good as what I mentioned above. I am really only using one camera right now and I could only see me using 2 in the future. I like that I can record in OBS then bring that video back in and put another one along with it and have the original in a corner of the screen. I haven't tested all of this out yet but I believe all I will have to do is create another guitar or bass track in Logic to go along with the new video and I will have all of the audio ready to go. I have seen people's videos of playing songs where they have done this with each instrument and vocalist. I think that is pretty cool and will probably end up trying to do this just for the fun of it.

 

[[Nathan]]

I did some testing last night. I did run the audio of my guitar into OBS but I turned the monitoring off. I then put the track and my guitar through SPDIF into Logic. After I stopped both programs, I dragged the video file into Logic. It asked me if I wanted to split out the audio and I answered yes. It then gave me a message about the video being in 60 fps and told me the project was set to something different. I chose to use the 60 fps from the video. That worked pretty well. This is probably going to be the way I go.

I did try a couple of other things tonight but none of them really worked, especially not as good as what I mentioned above. I am really only using one camera right now and I could only see me using 2 in the future. I like that I can record in OBS then bring that video back in and put another one along with it and have the original in a corner of the screen. I haven't tested all of this out yet but I believe all I will have to do is create another guitar or bass track in Logic to go along with the new video and I will have all of the audio ready to go. I have seen people's videos of playing songs where they have done this with each instrument and vocalist. I think that is pretty cool and will probably end up trying to do this just for the fun of it.

So many ways to do it, as long as whatever you do makes sense and isn’t too painful then that’s the right answer

If you stick with it and want to add text, clean up the video, add fx/transitions to the footage then Davinci resolve will be the next thing to look at, but sounds like no dire need for it yet.