Virtual Choir Creator

Filipe Fonseca

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About this app

Virtual Choir is an app to help musicians create video montages. You can record yourself, import recordings from friends and synchronize everything.

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In order to use it, follow this steps:

1. Create a new Project.
2. If you have an audio or video base to sing/play with, go to Audio/Video Base page and import the file. If you don't have a base, you can record and make that recording the base.
3. Go back do project page and go to Recordings page.
4. Create a new recording pressing the red button at the bottom. Or import an already recorded video using the button at the top. If present, the video or audio base will start playing when you tap record in the camera. Use ear plugs to prevent the audio base to be recorded along your new video.
4. If you don't have an audio base, you can make this recording the base. Go back to Recordings page and tap the me button on the recording and you will see the option.
5. After recording, you can check if it is synchronized. Exit the camera page and you will see the recordings list. Tap the name of the recording to see the details and then tap the Synchronization Tool button.
6. In the Synchronization page you will hear the recording and the base playing together. Use the plus and minus buttons to move the current recording forward or backward if necessary.
7. With the recordings synchronized, you can go back to Project's page and enter the Edit Montage page. There you can drag the recordings to create the video. You can also listen to audio result or a preview of the video with the buttons at the top (don't mind the quality here). Long press to remove a recording. Be creative!
8. After editing the montage, go back to Project's page and go to Video Montages page. There you just tap the green button at the bottom to create the montage.

There are some app settings and project setting you would want to change.

If your recordings doesn't show, try changing the default folder in the app settings.

If the montage takes too long, try decreasing the quality in the project settings. I recommend a minimum of 480p when sharing. You can also try to decrease the quality of the videos (using a third software), before importing, in order to try improving the speed of rendering (maybe I will add this functionality in the app in the future).

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The app is still in beta development but it was released in order to give people in quarantine the possibility to share their art. It will be free as long as the pandemic goes on.

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Ratings and reviews

Recent update has made it nearly useless. All of the layout looks great, but as soon as you start recording, everything starts to glitch. I get the spinning circle of doom every time I try to record from a base I made. I can't even watch/listen to it without the constant buffering that leads to nothing. I used a recording from YouTube that worked perfectly before, but now the audio cuts out at the same exact place. Tried in & out of work, w/ & w/o wifi. Changed permissions. Nothing changes.

Can you export the final montage? I can't find an option to do so. EDIT: I still don't see a way to just export the video to my phone's storage. I tried sending to it Google drive first and then downloading it, but after downloading it to my phone from drive my phone didn't recognize the file type and it couldn't be played. EDIT 2: That worked. Thank you!

So far it works really well on my moto g power. Seems to sync up really well, but the sync tool is easy to use. Best one of these I have tried myself, haven't tried a collaboration yet. Only odd thing is that changing the volume of the tracks doesn't seem to change anything on preview. I think it does when I generate the montage, but have to guess.

What's new

We've addressed issues with the video encoder to ensure smoother functionality.
Fixed a bug that was causing trouble on previews.
Removed the need for login, making it easier to access the app.
Temporarily disabled cloud-based features; the app now operates solely on your device.
Streamlined the app by removing unnecessary third-party code.
Squashed some minor bugs for a smoother user experience.
Upgraded our internal framework to the latest stable release, enhancing overall performance.