🎬 How to Make a Virtual Ensemble!

The school year is finally over, as is my first ever quarter of online teaching.

I wanted my students to end the year seeing themselves represented together, playing the same music, at the same time. So I sharpened my Final Cut skills and dove into the process of making a virtual ensemble.

The video in this post gives an overview of my process for making these videos, all the way from making a play along track, to advanced editing such as pitch and rhythm correction. The video includes a couple of my favorite Mac utilities for manipulating audio and video files. Scroll to the bottom to see all of the final videos of my students.

Apps Mentioned in the Video

• Apple Pro Apps Educators Discount
• Transcribe!
• Audio Hijack
• Dr. Betotte
• Anytune
• Permute

If you want free alternatives to the apps in the video, try:

• VLC - for file conversion
• The Amazing Slow Downer - for slowing down audio tracks

To edit on iPadOS, try:

• Ferrite - for audio editing
• LumaFusion - for video editing

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Here are the final videos...

🎬 Vivo! - The Ellicott Mills Middle School Wind Ensemble (Virtual Band Video)

Here is the first of a few "virtual band" videos I have been editing over the past few weeks. I am proud of my students for their hard work in unfamiliar conditions. I enjoyed making this a lot, but for different reasons than I enjoy teaching band.

I really refined my audio and video editing workflow for this. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a video post on how I made this using Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and handful of other indie Mac apps.