This copy of a semi-finished edit of LA BOHEME is for the advantage of Amara members who might want to weigh in on the captioning of the show. I am working with a particular translation and would prefer that people add comments rather than make actual changes. I'm new to the captioning process and will be very grateful to suggestions, but ultimately I have the responsibility to do this and feel that the Amara tools will be very helpful.
The video shown here is an amalgam of four cameras which were in use on New Years' Eve, 2015-2016 at the Sheen Center in New York City, for the Amore Opera performance. Everyone on the stage and in the orchestra pit is a volunteer (notwithstanding that many have significant professional resumes).
The video is, as I said, from four cameras: three 1080i mounted under the balcony and controlled robotically, and switched in such a way that the full stream from each camera is not available - only the composite of the way it was switched on-the-fly and streamed via Livecast, and a fourth 4K operated in the balcony by an experienced camera operator.
Act 1 and part of Act 2 have been edited by fixing errors in the streamed performance (and shots that were better on the 4K image), roughly balancing the color and exposure, and combining them using multi-camera options within Adobe Premiere Pro. The three stream cameras were not properly balanced with each other, and I'm razoring the majority of the intercuts and fixing the color and exposure as best I can. At the same time, I am incorporating the surtitles, shown during the performance but not filmed, as subtitles by creating a SRT file (and now by using Amara to continue editing that file). I would love any Amara people to make comments on the workflow and anything they see that I might do to further improve the show. I should point out that Act 2 past Musetta's aria, Act 3 and Act 4 have not been edited and generally the stream version is what shows. I will make no changes that will alter the show's timing, so when I put up the finished product it will still sync properly with the exported SRT file from this work. Thanks to all...