Made surprising progress today on the better version of the video:
I tried setting it up with my high-CRI fluorescent light but it actually worked better to just use room lights. And tilt my desk lamp over to get a little front light on my musical instruments.
Compositing was straight-forward in ShotCut. Also, I sent Yakima the Photographer/Bard back into Skyrim and pulled some background plates. Plus did another camera fly, this time a straight zoom into Riften. It was a little jerky -- Skyrim is running on the edge already what with the quality cranked up to High for the shoot, and enough fan-improved meshes and textures added on to bring it up past Special Edition standards, and adding the overhead of a Quicktime screen grab is almost too much for my poor computer. But...ShotCut makes it easy to re-time a clip, and at 4x the base frame rate it got nice and smooth.
The next trick is to "bake" the performance clips first, rendering them out as new video files that can then be added back in without all the overhead of multiple layers of cropping, scaling, color grading, and chromakey magic. But it looks like it is going to work.
And not take a lot more time away from the Sea People.
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