Bassist RUDY SARZO Issues Audio / Video Tech Blog #3 - The Making Of The 'Vicious Circle' Video
October 19, 2009, 15 years ago
Bassist Rudy Sarzo (BLUE ÖYSTER CULT / DIO / ex-WHITESNAKE) has issued the following audio / video tech blog:
"In my last post I shared with you how I created The Making of Guilty Pleasure, a clip that was included on Quiet Riot’s 2001 CD release of Guilty Pleasure. In this post I’m going to show you how I produced a promotional clip for Vicious Circle from jumbo-tron footage of one of our live shows. You can view the clip below.Quiet Riot went on a promotional tour shortly after the release of Guilty Pleasure and we soon began looking for ways to promote the album. After years of making MTV videos we knew that having a professional quality promotional video of one of the best received songs from the CD to post on the internet was our best option. Unfortunately we had zero budget for such a video.
After one of our festival performances, the camera crew that was shooting the jumbo-tron footage handed us an edited VHS copy of our entire performance as it was projected on the screens. Eureka!!! Now we have the professionally shot footage we needed. So I immediately began digitizing the footage into my laptop to edit in Sony Vegas.
Since necessity is the mother of invention, I had to get creative in capturing the footage from VHS to digital format. My only option at that moment in 2001 was to transfer the VHS footage into my Canon Digital camera and then use FireWire to get it on my laptop. Today there are plenty of analog to digital conversion options in the market. Though I lost one generation in the transfer process, the footage didn’t suffer too much degradation and it was going to be compressed for web viewing anyways."
Go to this location for the complete blog.
