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Will Fly Guitar Project Website Creation. Help (8) RE: Guitar Project Website Creation. Help 10 Mar 17


Tunesmith, you're talking my language. I've been doing this for several years - welcome to the club!

Let's start with a website. I used to create my own pages using CSS sheets, HTML, etc., but now I use an online program called "Weebly", which allows you to create and build pages. Basic packages come free. Check it out. I use it for several sites, including my own: http://www.willflyguitar.com/. (This is actually a higher grade package which allows me to add video and audio files).

So, investigate and play. I've loaded dozens of PDF files into my "Tablatures" pages - all downloadable, but I don't charge for anything available from my site. What I do have is a PayPal "Donation" button on my home page, where people who've found the site useful can give what they want towards the site upkeep. People have been generous. But it's also possible to have password-protected pages accessible to whoever you want - perhaps on a paying basis. But - remember - there's so much good, free stuff out there on YouTube and elsewhere, that you'll have to be very good to sell much. Just saying.

I use a Canon EOS 70D in Automatic mode to shoot video these days, and capture the sound simultaneously on a Zoom H2. I load audio and video into my Mac using a USB cable. There's a proprietary Canon app. called "EOS Utility" that uploads the .MOV files and a simple drag-and-drop transfer process for the Zoom's .WAV files. I check the .WAV file for EQ and top and tail it with Audacity. For double or more tracking I load multiple checked .WAV files into Garageband on my Mac and save the edited output as .mv4a files.

I put .MOV files and either the .WAV or the .mv4a files into iMovie and synch them. I then extract the camera audio, leaving just the edited Zoom audio files. I can add dissolves, titles, etc., in iMovie. The completed video is exported to my "Movies" folder and then either uploaded to YouTube or just to my website.

Those are the bare bones of it all. Questions welcomed. Check out my stuff on YouTube and on my website to see the end results.

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