DESCRIPTION:
The Swedish heavy metal band Manimal performing "I Am" from their debut album "The Darkest Room", released on AFM Records in June 2009. Filmed at Trädgårn in Gothenburg, Sweden using a Panasonic Lumix TZ7 (or ZS3 as it's called in the US for some weird reason).

Visit Manimal here: http://www.manimal.nu/

Since the original sound was a bit muddy I opened the videostream in Premiere Pro CS4 and applied some EQ and dynamics to the soundtrack. I really didn't want to recompress the video so I chose to export the audio track alone as MP4 audio in AC3 48kHz 192kbps (basically the same format as the camera records in) using the Adobe Media Encoder.

Then I used an excellent little application called tsMuxeR that lets you (among other things) replace the original soundtrack in an AVCHD-file without having to recompress the video parts, hence avoiding a huge quality loss. Takes around 20 seconds to swap the audio track with a freshly mastered one and then the file is ready to be uploaded to Youtube, AND you can also trim the video, lossless. Superb.

tsMuxeR: http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html

Note: The Lumix TZ7 has some problems with finding the focus when the lights are changing constantly. If you're considering buying this camera please note that a rock concert is among the worst conditions one can imagine for a camera, it's not THAT bad really...