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This test drive post has been long in coming.
It was back in mid-April that I first requested a sample of SoundTech's Vocal Trainer, a kit that includes SingingCoach software and a USB-enabled microphone.
Once uploaded to your computer, the software is supposed to determine your voice range, and then adapt the program's singing exercises to those results. After going through all of the exercises in the program, you will apparently have become a fabulous singer, worthy of standing ovations and pleas for encores.
I thought this sounded like the most exciting thing ever.
So I found myself a test subject (surprisingly, many people were willing to humiliate themselves on camera, though one friend responded that he would love to help me, but others had told him he already had the voice of an angel) and we immediately set up an appointment to capture her pre-Vocal Trainer capabilities on camera.
Since then, I have been having a nightmare of a time editing that initial video. The software that comes with the camera apparently only snips off ends, and and doesn't allow you to fuse snippets together or add in transitions. So I saved multiple clips of snipped-up snippets and then threw them into a wildly outdated version of Premiere. The result has been awful and abrupt transitions, and the appearance of a bad dub job (at least at the very beginning; things eventually sync up, thank god). All of this makes me never want to do a video post again. Someone. Please. Tell me there's an easier way!
Ahem.
So without further ado, my messy introductory test drive video:
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