Shania Twain

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ThePresence

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Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Im dl'd the file, but I just get sound, no vid for some reason. :(

get a Divx codec

Yep, go to this URL & click This :)

Do I need version 5? I just wanna use WMP, I dont want a Divx video player. I thought you could just install a small codec and watch in WMP.
 
Aug 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Im dl'd the file, but I just get sound, no vid for some reason. :(

get a Divx codec

Yep, go to this URL & click This :)

Do I need version 5? I just wanna use WMP, I dont want a Divx video player. I thought you could just install a small codec and watch in WMP.

You need DivX 5.03.
5.02 just plays the audio and does not render the video.

 

ThePresence

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Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Im dl'd the file, but I just get sound, no vid for some reason. :(

get a Divx codec

Yep, go to this URL & click This :)

Do I need version 5? I just wanna use WMP, I dont want a Divx video player. I thought you could just install a small codec and watch in WMP.

You need DivX 5.03.
5.02 just plays the audio and does not render the video.

Thanks, works now. :)
 
Aug 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Im dl'd the file, but I just get sound, no vid for some reason. :(

get a Divx codec

Yep, go to this URL & click This :)

Do I need version 5? I just wanna use WMP, I dont want a Divx video player. I thought you could just install a small codec and watch in WMP.

You need DivX 5.03.
5.02 just plays the audio and does not render the video.

Thanks, works now. :)

Enjoy!
Bombi boob booobie booo bumpabooob!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

 

BMdoobieW

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So what is the name of the song she is singing in the video?

Edit: nm, I found it....

Shania Twain (news) started the show off with a bang on a stage in the center of the field, launching into her 1997 hit "Man! I Feel Like A Woman," wearing a long black coat with pointy lapels and cuffs, over a short skirt and a revealing bustier. She then ran down a catwalk to another stage to sing her latest single "Up!," the title song of her current album, during which she was lifted over the crowd in a crane.
 

Led Zeppelin

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Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Enjoy!
Bombi boob booobie booo bumpabooob!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

LOL, dude, control yourself! :D

Hehe, not that you've seen the AVI, are you able to control yourself ;) :D

:D

After careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that...........I'd hit it. Definitely. :)

I can see it now being weighed in Shania's brain: "Hmmm, Mutt Lange.........or ThePresence........who to hit it with........"



 

ThePresence

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Originally posted by: LedZeppelin
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Enjoy!
Bombi boob booobie booo bumpabooob!
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

LOL, dude, control yourself! :D

Hehe, not that you've seen the AVI, are you able to control yourself ;) :D

:D

After careful consideration, I've come to the conclusion that...........I'd hit it. Definitely. :)

I can see it now being weighed in Shania's brain: "Hmmm, Mutt Lange.........or ThePresence........who to hit it with........"

Hahaha. :)
 

RedShirt

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Originally posted by: ThePresence
I heard Mike Francesa today on the radio. He said that he was sitting next to the event coordinator at the Superbowl, and he told him that contrary to what you may hear, EVERYONE lip synchs at the SB, because it's timed down the nanosecond for TV and such, and a live performance can screw it up. He even said that Whitney lip synched her national anthem at XXV. I believe him.

What? What nanosecond? When there is a live newscast, there is no delay in speech. I'm confused. When someone talks into a mic, the signal from the mic travels at the speed of light, which happens to be the same as... gasp... the speed of light, which is the speed at which you see things.

Sounds like Mike Francesa has no idea what he's talking about.
 

Confused

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Originally posted by: RedShirt
Originally posted by: ThePresence
I heard Mike Francesa today on the radio. He said that he was sitting next to the event coordinator at the Superbowl, and he told him that contrary to what you may hear, EVERYONE lip synchs at the SB, because it's timed down the nanosecond for TV and such, and a live performance can screw it up. He even said that Whitney lip synched her national anthem at XXV. I believe him.

What? What nanosecond? When there is a live newscast, there is no delay in speech. I'm confused. When someone talks into a mic, the signal from the mic travels at the speed of light, which happens to be the same as... gasp... the speed of light, which is the speed at which you see things.

Sounds like Mike Francesa has no idea what he's talking about.

He means that they have to time how long a performance goes on for, and with only a few minutes, someone singing live can add time to that easily.

He's not talking about the time taken for the sound to travel from the mic etc :)


But i still wish she had actually sung


Confused
 

RedShirt

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Originally posted by: Confused
Originally posted by: RedShirt
Originally posted by: ThePresence
I heard Mike Francesa today on the radio. He said that he was sitting next to the event coordinator at the Superbowl, and he told him that contrary to what you may hear, EVERYONE lip synchs at the SB, because it's timed down the nanosecond for TV and such, and a live performance can screw it up. He even said that Whitney lip synched her national anthem at XXV. I believe him.

What? What nanosecond? When there is a live newscast, there is no delay in speech. I'm confused. When someone talks into a mic, the signal from the mic travels at the speed of light, which happens to be the same as... gasp... the speed of light, which is the speed at which you see things.

Sounds like Mike Francesa has no idea what he's talking about.

He means that they have to time how long a performance goes on for, and with only a few minutes, someone singing live can add time to that easily.

He's not talking about the time taken for the sound to travel from the mic etc :)


But i still wish she had actually sung


Confused


OHHHHHHHH! I was confused. OK then. Having it be timed like that doesn't make a TON of sense, I mean, what is an extra 10 seconds anyways? They don't have commercials timed to the exact second, and I'm sure the players could wait another 10 seconds to run onto the field.

Edit: And another thing, why not just have recorded music and have the artist sing to that? That would make it timed perfectly.
 

tm37

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Originally posted by: RedShirt
Originally posted by: ThePresence
I heard Mike Francesa today on the radio. He said that he was sitting next to the event coordinator at the Superbowl, and he told him that contrary to what you may hear, EVERYONE lip synchs at the SB, because it's timed down the nanosecond for TV and such, and a live performance can screw it up. He even said that Whitney lip synched her national anthem at XXV. I believe him.

What? What nanosecond? When there is a live newscast, there is no delay in speech. I'm confused. When someone talks into a mic, the signal from the mic travels at the speed of light, which happens to be the same as... gasp... the speed of light, which is the speed at which you see things.

Sounds like Mike Francesa has no idea what he's talking about.

Actually the sound system at Qualcom has a two second delay.

Have you ever talked on the phone and there was a delay? Why if it moved at the speed of light?

 

BMdoobieW

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I'm sorry if you think I'm beating a dead horse, but last night I noticed, to my dismay, that I accidentally chopped off the last minute of Shania's performance. I uploaded a new full version, and also a vid of just the last minute in case you want it. Sorry 'bout this...

shania-full-new.avi (4:59, 35MB)
shania-full-end.avi (1:09, 7.6MB)
 

dejacky

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Geekbabe

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Originally posted by: dejacky
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Sundog

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Read an article earlier today that said that all the instruments were pre-recorded, but that Shania's vocals were live but that pre-recorded lyrics were standing by for problems (like when she got too far from the stage) and they were temporarily blended in, the went back to live.


Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.


Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes?rather than the usual six or eight hours?to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)
 

BMdoobieW

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Originally posted by: Sundog
Read an article earlier today that said that all the instruments were pre-recorded, but that Shania's vocals were live but that pre-recorded lyrics were standing by for problems (like when she got too far from the stage) and they were temporarily blended in, the went back to live.

You can see this illustrated here: the stuff