Ellis

I'll be plugging back into this later today, but now I think I understand the whole process. I can't thank you enough.

Ah, but here are my problems: 1. Since the video contains a lot of miscellaneous footage of me walking into the frame and putting on my headphones, then punching the music track into my headphones, then starting to play along with the music, I need to cut out all the prelim and post recording video, and then somehow align the separate mp3 audio with my recorded A/V. This has proven too difficult, and I'm sure there's a way to do it clearly and accurately. 2. I need to adjust the individual audio track volumes and EQs so that the balance is acceptable. Not sure how to adjust them individually within the mix. It would be a lot easier to just record the mp3 audio at the same time as the camera audio, but I don't think I have the cables and monitoring capability I would need to do that. Nor have I figured out yet how to use VideoPad to actually capture the video and monitor everything on my computer screen with headphones. I guess I'm a little too far down the learning curve for what I'm hoping to do. If this weren't a pandemic, I would gladly hire someone to come here and teach me in person. But, your patient instructions are helping a lot. I do appreciate it.

Thanks again, Borate, for your prompt reply. Here's the thing, I dragged the mp3 to audio track2 so I would have two audio tracks.What I need to do is blend both tracks, so that the original recording becomes the background for the video of me playing my leads over it. I need to mix the two audio tracks somehow, which will include registering the exact timeline positioning and also allow me to apply volume and EQ controls to each of the two audio tracks to achieve the final result. Then they have to be merged down to the video and saved as an mp4 that I can upload to my private YouTube channel. Am I asking too much of VideoPad? Thanks again for your indulgence.

Progress report. No joy yet. I recorded a video (MOV file) with my DSLR of me playing lead guitar over a recorded song. I imported this video into Video Pad. Then I dragged the mp3 file of the recorded song onto the little bar at the bottom of the VideoPad interface. I can't figure out how to mix them. The little wave pattern of the mp3 isn't aligned with the corresponding place in the video, and I can't figure out how to align them. I've tried every possible combination of clicking and dragging with no luck. It's quite a comedy of errors, but I'm running out of time and patience. Is it worth trying to describe in detail how to accomplish this? Sorry to be a dummy.

Thanks. This should make it easy. I'll report back . I may need to fiddle with my studio setup because I'm currently capturing my video on an SD card and then bootlegging it into the computer's SD port. I haven't figured out how to input the video directly into the computer so I can monitor it with the headphones. The DSLR I'm using to shoot the video has a digital A/V USB jack, which I'm not sure is an output jack, and an HDMI out jack. If I have the cabling I need, it should just be a matter of some experimentation. Trouble is, the camera is 15 feet from the computer and me. Thanks again.

I would like to overdub a video of me playing my guitar over a mp3 audio track of a song I like. I am a total novice with video editors. I am able to drag my audio file onto the audio bar, but I can't figure out how I can listen to the audio file while recording a video track over it. Any help or link to appropriate tutorials will be much appreciated. Thanks.