Just making the best karaoke videos I possibly can: using the original CD audio as the input to vocal removal, and animating lyrics over top of the original music video if one exists. (I think music videos are an underrated and almost lost art form, and making karaoke this way maybe helps preserve them?)
Current audio toolset:
- UVR 5 to separate all vocals from instruments
- Melodyne Editor to manually separate background vocals from foreground vocals
- Reaper to mix the background vocals back in with the instrumentals, etc
- Audacity for little things, like dynamic range compression of bg vocal lines, that are just easier to do destructively in an audio editor than as live effects in the DAW
Current video toolset:
- YouTube Movie Maker Gold for lyric animation and basic compositing
- Topaz Video AI to try to do at least a cursory job at trying to upscale music videos that I can only find in SD
- VEGAS Movie Studio 17 Platinum when I need to do something more complex