Music Videos
My videos are shot either in real life with a Canon Elura 70 video camera or in Second Life via online video capture of the animation. Whether I'm doing the video to augment my music or the other way around is yet to be determined but it's entertaining doing and hopefully you will enjoy the result.
House of the Rising Sun
The video features Kim Seifert singing lead on "House of the Rising Sun." She is by far the most powerful singer in Second Life and it's an extraordinary pleasure working with her.
Video Editing
Editing is done primarily on the Mac, previously with Final Cut Express but now with Final Cut Pro. I have also used Sony Vegas on the PC and have been satisfied with its capability but the Mac can't be touched for ease of use and smoothness of workflow.
A fundamental problem with video capture is that FRAPS is the software of choice for this function on a PC but it will only write the captured video to an AVI file. FRAPS is excellent software and you will be well pleased with it if your intention is to work only on a PC but it's extremely frustrating if your intention is to work on a Mac, not because of lack of quality in FRAPS but rather because it creates this damnable AVI-format output. Note that AVI came out well after Quicktime and it was nothing short of an act of malice from Gates and Microsoft to do it.
Bill Gates should really be thrown into a pit of vipers that inflict a slow-acting poison for what he did to artists with AVI. PC software just barely reads Quicktime format from Apple and there is very little software on the Apple side that reads AVI. Therefore, if you capture video on the PC and hope to use it on the Mac, you will have to convert it from AVI to Quicktime and this is expensive in terms of the loss of video quality and loss of color resolution. Gates was old news twenty years ago and even then he never did anything other than copying the work of other people. Bill, here's a tip: Go down to Fort Lauderdale and play shuffleboard. Every time you try one of your so-called innovations, something else breaks.