My "Merry Christmas" song for ya all.

https://youtu.be/304oyNOcLvg
 
As I said in in my other post I will be attempting to make videos from now on. I have a lot of songs and ground to cover. Trouble with making videos out of songs is the zillion's of way's you could make them interesting so that people will be drawn in to watch and mostly- listen. 
 
I could sit down in a chair and record a video of me performing the song--boring- .. Then you can shoot your self at a live gig,, little more interesting but you need like 3 cameras and people to man them,,I'd love to be able to make animated cartoons,, but that seems like a lot of work.. then you can take the easy way out and just stick still pictures together and hope for something interesting to come about. . But Hey, how about mixing all of these ideas together.. So I will now take video recording stuff to gigs and find a way to shoot better quality footage of myself performing.
 
This is not by any means good quality video, but it was just a trail run to see if it was even feasible. 
 
Technical details. 
I always put this song out via Soundcloud every year at Christmas, that version was titled "Johnny got run over by a Mule Deer" to avoid copyright laws. 
I was asked to play this song years ago and found a free download midi file. I did my usual fixing up and added real Bass. 
So I already had a good bed track recorded to Sonar. I upgraded it with some better VST's and stuff and then I laid down a new vocal track using my live performance vocal set up. This includes my TC Voice live Acoustic. That's the out of tune harmonies you hear.. I though they fit the song nicely... 
The live recording was pretty bad so next time I will also use my Tascam DR 40 and capture the Vocals and guitars. 

Hey Johnny - I'll listen to the song in a minute, but I just wanted to mention that cheap point-and-shoot still cameras in the hundred dollar range can shoot pretty decent HD video. Three of those in fixed positions around you at a gig can make videos of high enough definition that you can pan and zoom in editing to simulate cameras with human operators. I shot this one all by myself from one bar stool with one stationary camera in one take (Please note this was just a test of the camera. I had no setup time, no separate  audio and the band didn't even know I was there.). Three cams would have been a luxury.
And you are absolutely right: In this day and age, people will not listen to a song if there's nothing for them to watch on the screen (present company excepted).

EDITED TO ADD:
Nice job on the playing, singing and all, but this is one of a very few Christmas songs banned in my house.
 
SECOND EDIT:
Of course you'll be a stickler for audio and that's fine, but in my neighborhood your video is already way better than it needs to be to get gigs. Recording to the DR-40 will make it better, but add another layer of post production for you and probably not be noticed by your prospective clients. (My opinion.)

Thanks Larry- Yes the song has it's fan club and also may people are insulted by it. I guess Red Neck American humour takes a certain mindset. I was originally asked to learn it buy clients and I slowly learned to like it as it's fun to play and sing. My version has different lyrics where it's Johnny that gets killed and not some little old lady. And he Smoked his Medication...
 
Anyhow thanks for the input on shooting video. I do have a few good cameras kicking around that see little use these day's due to Cell phoon cameras. 

Never heard this one before. Well done for putting yourself on camera and uploading to YouTube. Only thing I would say about the video is to make it more landscape, as there's blank space to the right of the shot.

Right on, good job, a fine start, and you clearly aren't plagued with epilepsy or else your lighting might have triggered it.  I liked the "Grandma on the ground" sweater!
 
You have made a novelty hit off of a novelty hit! That's tough to pull off! Merry Xmas!
 
-Tom
 
 

Thanks once again Larry.. Funny how we get the best help for all software right here on this forum. 
After the post from Biodiode got me looking at that issue and I figured out how to zoom and crop last night. Like you say the documentation is sparse and the user forum also hard to search.
 
My big question was to see if I was cross fading between the 2 cameras the right way. I was just using the envelopes and dragging them up and down. This seems like a hard way to do things.  But anyhow, there seems to be an easier way and it was not at all what I expected. 
I stummbled on a Mode called "Multicamera" but nothing seemed to change and I guess I'll need to look that one up. 
I learned about 6 new things last night that will improve my results and workflow. 
I need to learn the shortcut keys I guess..
Speaking of which, I ended up with cursor being an envelope tool and that's when I gave up for the night,,, must have toggled something. I hope it reverts when I resume tonight. 
If not I'll be PM'ing you Larry ;) 
 

good recording Johnny

Yes I did figure it out after trying to watch a few terrible videos that were posted.. Here's people posting how too videos that are so out of focus and they talk real fast and with some accent so you can't understand them.. But overall I got the jist of it. I posted a new video I made after learning to zoom and crop and using the split to clips trick. I definatly need better camera's. 
 
https://youtu.be/YPrCFL0uZaM
 
 

Nice one Johnny. I'm also trying to provide a video with each new tune, even if it's just some public domain footage. 

Thanks everyone. I"m only posting to bump so when they pull the plug I'll be the one at the top  for all eternity  :)