Season 4 - LPisode #221 - Conclusion

Now that we've obtain the fifth star, let's obtain it again! And I gotta say, the battle that ensues in this episode had the potential to be something great, but somehow, it went wrong.

Audio explanation: This episode was recorded shortly after I returned to "A Light in the Sky", using my new capture device that captures video from my actual consoles. Apparently, HyperCam 2 noticed this new device was plugged in, and rather than record the audio of my PC (which includes both the game audio and the co-commentators), it decided to switch to the audio from the capture device, so it got nothing.

By the time I noticed that no audio was captured, Syn had already left. I decided to check the audio file that contains my commentary, and figured out that my mic picked up Lantis & Syn from my speakers. It wasn't a great quality, but at least their commentary was salvageable. So we decided to use that, if only because we had some pretty big reactions in this episode that would've been lost had we re-recorded. The fix was rather time-consuming, because I not only had to amplify their voices, I had to remove my own (much louder) voice from the audio. Unfortunately, this makes certain background noises all the more noticeable.

I also took music from the soundtrack and extended them to play in the background, to help offset the staticy voices. Of course, my video editor has a habit of randomly forgetting that I lowered the volume of tracks at the last split-second, so bleh on that. Also, the sound effects present were simply picked up on the mic. Even if they weren't, there's no way I'd add them back in manually. I don't think ANYBODY would do that.

And from now on, any time I plug back in my new capture device, I'll have to make doubly certain that HyperCam 2 doesn't switch back to it.

...At least there wasn't desync.

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{Lantis's Let's Plays}
http://www.youtube.com/lantis02

{FullOfSyn's Let's Plays}
http://www.youtube.com/user/silvertempest

{Game Download}
Waddler-D's Studio
http://waddlerdstudio.webs.com/smrpgrevolution.htm