Trying out new methods of mixing separate audio and video tracks
Youtube: Sussex GPX Audio Test
Audio thoughts from Firle Beacon, turning towards Charleston
The purpose of this exercise was to edit together recorded audio and video from the GoPro with audio recorded via a lav mic directly to a phone voice recorder.
The video is a walk through a sheep field along the South Downs Way near Mill Mound and White Lion farm (OSMaps Reference TQ453060). The audio recording was just above Southease near Itford Hill (OSMaps Reference TQ440055).
The test explores the logistical procedures and conceptual implications involved when accommodating two recordings with separate geolocations. Solving on-camera interviews in outdoor settings, high wind settings, has not been simple to solve (on the cheap). Although on the phone, decent audio recordings can be taken via the lav mic (with a tiny dead cat attached), compiling that with the video has proven difficult without access to computers powerful enough to do the work. This will be an ongoing negotiation … see the list below of attempted software and hardware solutions.
Conceptually, by joining this commentary alongside walking through a flock of sheep on a pastoral plateau near the sea, feelings of occupying territory were evoked related to belonging, rights of way and sharing space. It was an editing choice that had more to do with circumstance than design. The audio recorded on the lav mic reflects on which discipline the project should be situated in, in consideration of personal interests connected to the topics raised about FLINTA women (narratives), walking, and the English landscape, and how that might work to build and demonstrate neuroqueer procedures and methodologies.
The symbolism of sheep being followers and shapers of landscape (through their grazing) also resonates with conflicts I’m finding while working in a fenced discipline. Although a marine layer hangs in every direction, horizons are visible and stretch far in every direction. A visual metaphor represents the conflicts between what one can see, what one knows is beyond, and what is actually accessible.
Equipment
- GPS Tracker
- Garmin Fenix6 Watch
- Audio Recording:
- Huawei P20 native audio app “Recorder”
- AGPTEK Clip-on Lapel Omnidirectional Condenser Mic with Wind Muff
- Camera
- Huawei P20 native photo app “Camera”
- GoProMax
- Software (attempted)
Adobe Premiere Pro 2022(video rendered jagged using both the software and hardware drivers)GoPro Quik Android(not enough space on phone for a 9-minute recording)GoPro Player Windows(does not allow for video to be remixed with audio)- Windows app “Video Editor” (the only one that rendered video decently but interfered with sound quality).
Tracks (GPX files)
