Trusty Sony PD100A Goes to the Fair!!
Yep. at the Gravenstein Apple Fair I used this DV-CAM format camera to record Twang Ditty's 45 minute set of music!! With help from my audio expert, Lee Lusted, we took a wireless feed off the stage mixing console into a mixer for two channel stereo, then fed the camera via the external audio mini-jack connector. Sounded good and the band was thrilled with the result. I shot in the 16x9 format, which unfortunately is not as good as the HD version, but as long as the image is kept to 320ppi, fine for web use, it works ok. Would have used my Flip HD Mino camera, but as is well known, it has no audio in.
Notice the tripod and earphones: necessities for pro video standards.

Great Time Editing Twang Ditty Music Videos

Here's one of the videos, after many compression tests, on Youtube. Shot on my Sony PD-100
a in 16x9 mode, which I do not recommend. DVCAM is great, but it is not HD.

The band's performance more than makes up for the less than ideal video quality, in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouysfLOaKFc

Twang Ditty Rides Again!

Yes, one of my favorite bands to see live made an appearance last Tuesday at Tailor Maid Coffee's annual customer appreciation party. An easy gig for Andy, the bass player, since he works for Tailor Maid but the band worked hard at bringing back fond memories of such classics as "Harper Valley PTA" and "Ring of Fire" and the incredibly rare "North to Alaska."
Amongst all the wine-sipping, pork roast eatin and beer drinkin, plenty of toes were tapping to this fun music. And of course, plenty of coffee was drunk too, including do it yourself espresso making. An all around great Sebastopol style evening.

Twang Ditty is a new favorite band!

Check them out here.

I'll be there this Sunday when they play the Ace in the Hole Pub in Sebastopol.

I may even come back with some video.