Creating Engaging Choral Videos with Inexpensive Software and Equipment

Roger Hale

Do you wish you could create a multi-angle choral video to share what your choir is working on with the online community? This video presentation will help you create engaging choral videos with inexpensive and free software and equipment. Using Shotcut, an open-source software solution, you can create multi angle/track videos that can be uploaded to social media or YouTube.

Dr. Roger Hale, director of choral activities at Dixie State University shares basics of what equipment he uses and the pros and cons of different software solutions. Dr. Hale then gives a step-by-step tutorial on how to use Shotcut to create an engaging music video.

Dr. Roger Hale serves as the Director of Choral Studies at Dixie State University. He received a BME (2001) and MM Choral Conducting (2006) from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in Choral Music Education from Florida State University (2009). Dr. Hale studied closely with John Cooksey, André Thomas, Kevin Fenton, and Clifford Madsen. Frequently serving as a guest conductor/clinician, Dr. Hale is the founder and creator of solfasinger.com, a website that helps singers learn Solfege. His choral/singing YouTube channel has more than 2.5 million views with 45k+ subscribers. He lives in the Ivins, UT with his wife KayDe and their five children.