Today I want to give you guys a step
by step tutorial on how you can record a video Skype call,
and have both your video and your interviewees video side
by side, both at full resolution.
And then put that into a new video
that you can then upload to YouTube or wherever else.
That's coming up.
Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer.
And it is Thursday, which means it's time
to do some YouTube Q&A, with you guys.
Maybe you have noticed over the past couple of weeks,
I've been posting some video interviews that I've
been doing over Skype, or my video
is right next to my interviewees video.
And it looks kind of like this.
I've got some space at the top and some space at the bottom,
and I've got names and icons, and a nice soft motion
in the background.
Melody Lane Viogs saw one of those and asked this.
I just start watching the video.
I have a question already.
How do you do that with him next to you?
I have done Google hangouts on my other channel,
but they are in the bottom, or we can switch.
Is this your editing, or can this
be done in a hangout this way?
Please share.
Great question, Melody.
I actually use some special software,
called Call Recorder for Mac, which
lets me record two different sides of a conversation.
Or it can let me automatically put
them together and everything.
Let me take you to my desktop, and show you
exactly how I do it, and how it works.
This is Dave.
Hey, Dave, thanks for hanging out with me real quick.
Dave from Sonic Orb Studios and Social Blaze, and you guys
might recognize him from some collabs we did in the past.
So what we're going to do real quick guys
I'm going to show you.
Here's my desktop.
There's Dave.
That's his nose, and this is Call Recorder right here.
So basically the way this works, I'm
going to show you the settings I'm
going to use real quick for Call Recorder.
Right here is all the settings for what
the recording looks like.
So the main things you've got to know about,
this one right here, I usually just
set mine to 720p which is this one right here.
And the video frame rate I set at the maximum, which is only
going to be around 15 frames per second.
So I still go with maximum because even that's
kind of poor.
And then the recording videos I set to multi-track advance.
And there's two ways to do this.
I'm going to show you this one, and this one right here
called split screen.
Split screen is a super easy one, if all you want to do
is just have two people side by side, and that's all you want.
That's the easy way to do it.
But I like to actually have a little bit more buffer
around the top, so I can put lower thirds
and names, and things like that around them.
So I do a multi-track.
This one also is the one that let's
me take both of our videos, and then separate them,
split them into two different tracks.
So while Dave is here, what I'm going to show you guys,
is two things.
One, how to record the video session itself.
And then two, also how to adjust their volume and your volume,
so that you're not super loud and they're quiet.
And then you try to go to edit the video later,
and it's all messed up.
The audio.
So let me show you how to do this.
Click on this right here, audio/video.
And this right here, that's the slider for their audio.
So what I'm going to do here.
Let me close this.
I'm going to click on, this is the record button.
This is going to start recording me
and Dave and that'll give me the audio reader.
So I clicked record, and that is my input.
I'm peaking right around the greenish to yellow area which
you can set those parameters.
That's just your microphone parameters and your system
settings if you're on Mac.
So Dave, tell us how you're doing, man.
I'm doing great.
Having a fantastic day here.
Don't mute me, yo.
Don't mute me.
Before I rudely interrupted you would be, dude,
could you quickly jump on a Skype call?
Yeah.
So you guys could see how I'm peaking in red right now.
So I don't want to do that.
So what I will do is I open up my sound preferences,
and I will go here to my input for my microphone,
and just simply turn me down a little bit.
And now I'm right here in green.
For Dave, he was peaking in yellow a little bit.
So I'm going to go back here to my preferences,
and I'm going to turn him down a little bit, right here.
So now, Dave, why don't you try saying something?
Am I toned down enough now?
See how he's quieter?
Still too quiet now.
Uh oh.
Let me put a mic right there.
I'm hard to read.
There you go.
Yeah, somewhere around in there is probably about good.
And so I always do a test call, at the very beginning,
just to get the audio levels balanced out.
Then once those are worked out, then I'm
going to hit stop, right here, and that's
going to stop that recording.
And now I'm ready to actually start my next recording.
So I'm going to do two calls for you real quick.
The first one is on split tracks,
and the second one is going to be
on the advanced multi-tracks.
So this one was on the advanced multi-track and record.
Hey Dave, this is what multi-tracks
looks like, the advanced settings where
I can split two videos side by side.
Doesn't this look great?
Ha, ha.
It does.
Now I'm going to switch to that was multi-track advance.
Let's switch to the split screen where
if you just want drop dead simple,
don't want to mess with anything,
this is the one to use.
And click that, and I'll show you what that looks like.
Hey, Dave.
Now we are in split track, and we
are filling up the full 720p screen.
So where can people find you, man?
They can find me at Sonic Orb Studios.
Just Google it.
I'm all over the place.
After your interview is recorded,
Call Recorder gives you a couple of tools that you can use here.
So you can take your tracks, you can convert them for internet,
convert to AC which is just the audio, or audio to AF or MP3.
You can just extract the audio out of it, if you like.
If you want to split the movie tracks, you can.
Split sides of conversation is one
I'm going to use when I'm doing the advanced multi-track one.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to open this one.
That's going to give me this little window over here.
Just drag the movie files here to split
the sides of the conversation.
So this top one here is when we did the advanced one.
Let me open that up, and it is way too big.
So here we go, as you can see, this is my video 720p right
here and his video 720p right here.
So that's the one that I want if I can keep it right here.
But you can notice how that's considerably more wider
than the split track is, and I actually
want to get both of those tracks to be separate videos.
I'm going to close this.
And what I'm going to do is just take it, click it, and drag it
over here.
And it's going to create two sides, side one and side two.
So here is what side one looks like.
I clicked record.
Ha, ha.
Before I rudely int-- and then here is side two-- just him.
See he's just listening to me talk right now.
So the audio and the videos are both two separate video files.
And then I can take both of these two video files
into my editor and just use them and have full flexibility
and control over them.
Now with audio adjustments and cutting
and having one person zoom in.
Zoom out.
All that type of stuff, I can have full flexibility
and control over that.
And so here's what it looks like.
This one.
This one right here.
This is what it would look like just with 720p.
Hey, Dave.
Now.
You could see how we're much narrower,
just put us side by side.
One little caveat though to splitting them apart
is that I've noticed though is that it doesn't always
record at a consistent frame rate.
It drops.
It goes up and down.
And you probably saw even a little warning on my computer,
and I haven't figured out a way to get around this.
So sometimes if you do it this way the audio from one person
to the other person can start to get out of sync.
And so you have to go and adjust the frame rates
and speed stuff up, slow things down.
It gets really annoying.
So sometimes I don't even bother to split them up anymore.
And I just keep them either doing a split track, just
like this, and just making sure I
have enough room at the bottom to put lower thirds and things.
Or I will just keep it as a big old really wide video
like this.
And then in my editor what I'll do,
is this video will stay in sync with itself,
and so I'll actually just crop.
I'll put two layers, one on top of each other.
One will be me, one will be Dave.
And then I will just crop it, so that one
is showing just the left side, and that the other track is
showing just the right side.
And then that way, the videos stay in sync with each other,
but I still have control over each person's full 720p video
resolution.
I didn't cover the final editing part of this
because that very much depends on what editing program
you're using.
I personally use Adobe Premiere Pro,
but you might be using Vegas or iMovie or anything else.
So how do you actually take those video files
and put them side by side?
It's going to depend on what editing software you are using.
So I'll leave it up to you to take it from there.
But hopefully, that at least gives you those two videos,
or one that you can then take and use.
The other thing I didn't really cover here
is that this is clearly for if you are on a Mac.
What if you are on a PC or using Windows?
I don't know.
I haven't used Windows for a long time.
I did Google around a little bit,
and I'll put some links in the description text
below to some sources that might be helpful for you.
But unfortunately, I didn't find anything for the Windows side
that is as easy, simple, and straightforward
as this is on the Mac side.
Hopefully, some of those things down there
can help you piece some things together, and act together.
Or if you have a good solution and you are Windows user,
please share that with us in the comments below.
And the rest of you guys, make sure you
look through all those comments, because I
am pretty sure with given how smart a lot of you
guys are and how helpful you are on all of the other videos
we've done here, there will be someone here
who has a great solution for how to do this on Windows.
So go check those comments out.
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