Getting a Great Performance - 01 (Notation Composer)

[rrayner]

Hi Sherry,

I'm still on XP and have Windows Media Player 11, which says, "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.".

As I mentioned, unfortunately, neither Firefox (my preference) or IE plays it within a listenable range. If I immediately follows this test with a wav file test, the speakers are blasting.

Ralph

[Sherry C]

Hi Ralph,

Before I make any changes to this one, have you been able to hear the other videos in the Tutorial series ok? If you haven't tried them, please do give at least one other one a try so that I can rule out certain options here, and more quickly figure out the problem.

Thanks!
Sherry

[rrayner]

Hi Sherry,

I just tested with the previous three tutorials, and they come through loud and clear in volume level. Just in case something was wrong yesterday, I retried this one from the direct link, and I can barely hear your voice, even with the speaker turned up full. This morning's testing was all in Firefox.

To be more thorough, I again tried the downloaded mp4 file, both in Quicktime (7.6.9 under XP), and Firefox, which invokes Quicktime. The volume level is much diminished, compared to the other tutorials.

Ralph

[Sherry C]

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for running those checks on your system for me. I've re-rendered the video with the volume level "up" (except those initial clicks - I had the recording session set to "enhance" mouse clicks, which was not my best move ever )

It'll take the upload a few minutes, so you might want to go have a cup of coffee/tea/whatever and then give it another try.

Thanks again for letting me know, and for checking it out

ttfn,
Sherry

[rrayner]

That did the trick, Sherry. Thanks for making the change. I won't get a chance to go through the whole tutorial today -- gotta travel, but I'll get to it this week. Thanks, again. Ralph

[Sherry C]

Hi Ralph,

Glad that did the trick. And thanks again for letting me know!

ttfn,
Sherry

[rrayner]

Hi Sherry,

I finally had the time to check out this video (Hurricane Irene is keeping me indoors), and I think you've done a wonderful job. There are a number of things that I had already dug into, but it was very nice to get a proper explanation of what they do. Thankfully, there were some new nuggets for me. I tend to ignore the crawl stage with new applications, and go straight to running full speed. Once I've found a way to do something, I rarely dig into it farther.

The section on shortening the duration of notes, while leaving them notated, was one that I was doing the hard way, so this will save me a lot of time. Kudos!

Many thanks!

Ralph