xKnuckles

Thank you Tim. That page looks shiny and nice, but when you actually follow it, it leads you into a complete dead end . (I have followed it several times). There are no links for cancelleing where it says there should be, nor are there any links to allow you to change credit card details. My surface is windows 10, but just to double check I tried it this morning on a borrowed 'proper' computer. It was exactly the same.

Thanks for the PayPal advice KuruPrionz. I have filed it away in case I ever need it....

Bad luck Delmar. Not dumb - these scams are clever and designed in such a way that any of us could fall for them. I hope you are able to recover your money.

Help!! I took out a pro soundcloud account to see if it was worth having, and I have decided that - for me - it isn't. I wish to go back to the free account which I used to have. The problem is, that doesn't seem possible. I have navigated to the subscription page and the button which says 'edit subscription'. Clicking on that does nothing but show me details of the paid subscription. It does not offer me any means of changing it. I have tried on both an iPad and a surface pro. In desperation I decided to cancel my credit card details. I have been unable to do that either..... I just get sent in endless loops to pages of useless 'help" information. If it is possible they have hidden it extremely well. I must say that I am EXTREMELY UNIMPRESSED by these bullying tactics. When I have managed to break free I will not be tempted to return at some point in the future if this is how they treat their customers. No company should ever try to trap people into staying subscribed... Please, If anyone can show me a way out of this maze I would be so grateful.... Thank you.

The UK ban on live music ends tomorrow. After then, outdoor gigs will be permitted. I have one on Saturday with my jazz trio. I am not feeling worried: outdoors, in the morning, in a venue with loads of space.......should be fine. I am looking forward to it hugely. What worries me more is whether I will be able to see my charts on my computer if it is sunny..... I am not in any rush for indoor venues to open though. That is an entirely different can of worms.....

This thread ain't good for much Just lame replies and such But it made me smile a bunch: it's good enough for me

Surely the true purpose of bass solos is simply to give the keys player a chance to have a drink?.......

I once wrote a HUGE amount of nothing. Then emailed it. It had to be sent as a zip file.

Can it be tuned? Sounds a bit sharp to me...

I should actually be admitted into the 10k club.....

Hi Mark. I think the problem may be that you are trying too hard to make the bees feel at home... :D. I hope you recover quickly. By the way; I strongly agree with what some earlier posters have already mentioned. Bees are rapidly becoming an endangered species. Something has been killing them in monstrous numbers over the last decade. The implications of not having bees are too horrible to contemplate (coronavirus would be nothing in comparison with the potential damage to the entire food chain if these tiny pollinators were not around to play their crucial part.).... Every opportunity you get to protect or assist a bee is an opportunity to bestow a blessing upon our entire planet.

+1

Hi Greg. I have used Easy song liscencing and found them to be good: https://www.easysonglicensing.com/pages/services/cover-song-licensing/clear-cover-songs.aspx

Happy birthday Carlo. Will you be blowing out your candles after midnight?

This is a great thread.i am loving hearing everybody's different thoughts on this. Some interesting ideas to try....

Yes I agree with the others. Treat your keyboards like air passengers and simply quarantine them for a few days after receiving them. I had my piano tuned a couple of weeks ago and didn't play it for several days afterwards. (Fortunately I had a nice electronic alternative to turn to during that period).

Great evening - thanks all. It was particularly welcome as I have not had the best of weeks. It was wonderful to see you all and laugh and be cheered up and transported all over the world. Thanks Gassy Tom for giving us the masterchef demo of how to make a drink.... I felt rather underdressed without a lime in mine... It was really nice to meet your father, Mark. Please give him my best wishes and tell him that I would have loved to have heard some of his stories. Maybe next time.... I was delighted to meet Carlo and hear him play a little - but I would have loved to have heard a lot more. I very much hope we can have more sessions as suggested by GT.

If you can, copy them all onto your computer for ease of listening access, and then put them in boxes under the stairs and keep them safe in case the whole digital world implodes..... If you don't have any stairs you may - depending on how many you have - find it necessary to move house... I still have my entire CD collection under the stairs....

Funnily enough, my diary still bears a startling resemblance to a winter's morning...... Friday nights (UK time) are usually good for me.

I must take a moment to thank Biggles once more for pointing me in the direction of DaVinci Resolve. I have had a good session with it now and it is incredible. Light years better than Scowl Director. And it is indeed free!! I would strongly recommend any of you who are interested in making videos to check it out. It does things which I would not have believed were possible with video! THANK YOU BIGGLES!! :)

Yes, me too!...I posted a short You Tube video a while back in response to someone who had recorded a video using the camcorder microphones, and had been disappointed (understandably) with the results. I used free video software (Virtualdub) to replace the audio with a .wav file recording made on a separate recorder, and uploaded the video file with it's new .wav audio track to You Tube (The clip is here: - only about a minute long - sorry about the keyboard playing! ) ) The audio has thus only been converted once from its .wav original -- by You tube itself It's not that difficult to replace the audio track on a video - It is made a lot simpler if the original video and the separate audio track have a 'clapper' reference at the start .( 'clapper boards' are pretty standard in the film industry , where the audio is nearly always recorded separately). As I say I use the free video app. Vitrtualdub to do it. Your video is great - thank you for sharing it: I really enjoyed it. I guess I am wanting to do it the most difficult way because I want all the key clicks etc as well as the excellent sound... I like the extra atmosphere which those noises give to a live recording... I have devised my own clapper board by playing some widely spaced notes and tapping my shoulder at the start of each recording. It does make it much easier to line everything up later. Thanks for mentioning virtuallab....I will look it up.

Hi Rogs. Your suggestion is puzzling me a little. How can you upload the audio separately from the video - surely you need to render them together first in order to make sure they line up correctly, don"t you? In your first post you said... 'I have just made a video for YouTube. I am happy with it. The audio is a wav file and sounds fine' ..... so I assumed the original audio that is already part of the video is a .wav file? I can't see why you need to 'render' it before you upload to You Tube?... just upload it as it is, in its raw form. That will minimise the loss of quality that you will inevitably get with every format change .. In short, there is then only one audio conversion involved - the one that You Tube does itself - That is the one you can't avoid. Ah....looks like we both confused each other. Apologies for being unclear. I always record my audio on a separate device if possible, in order to get better quality .... (I also have invested heavily in shares in irony.... )

Tim that was very kind of you to take the trouble to look this up! Thank you so much. I did in fact come across it last week after I realised how bad things were sounding (but I only came across it by accident whilst searching elsewhere for related things - the availabilit of that 'fix' is not overly visible on the power director site)... I did the fix following the video carefully but I don't think it has helped very much. Maybe a little - not sure. But I am 100% certain that the problem persists.

Sorry for this quick derail but it's kinda related to what you posted. The audio in my imported video clips is 44.1. In FCPX I make sure the project info pane says 44.1K audio. My master file'a audio exported by FCP is 48K. I'm sure there's an explanation â I just don't know what it is, maybe someone here does. ProRes 422 must always be 48K maybe? BTW the audio sounds fine to my ears, I guess there's SRC going on during the export. xKnuckles, "hideous, distorted, scratchy, horrible" means there's something broken â most compressed audio formats can sound decent (unless you're Neal Young I suppose!). It"s because in the audio world 44.1k became standard. However in the video world they adopted 48k as standard. When I shoot video of music I usually run a zoom H4 at 48k Wav along side my phone or camera and swap that audio track for the one captured by my phone/camera. I edit high quality picture and audio - but for delivery to audience on YouTube they compress both. However the audio remains at 48k throughout. I wonder if maybe this is part of my problem... I recorded at 44,100 (no option to go higher...) Do you think I should have converted it to 48,000 before putting it into power director?

Ha ha! It certainly seems that way Rob: nobody would want their videos sounding like this. Wish I had known before I bought Power Director (henceforth to be reffered to as Growler Director!... ) .. Stilll....at least the MKV format sounds ok......for now....