Here’s a recording of Geoff Peters from geoffmobile.com performing “Steppin’ Out” by Joe Jackson on vocals and piano, live at an open mic night at Pleasant Mountain Music in Vancouver BC Canada.
“Steppin’ Out” is a song by English musician Joe Jackson, originally included on his 1982 album Night and Day. The song was inspired by Jackson’s time in New York City.
Geoff’s arrangement is influenced both by the Joe Jackson original, as well as Kurt Elling’s vocal jazz cover of “Steppin’ Out” from his Grammy-nominated album “The Gate” (2011).
For more information about Pleasant Mountain Music in Vancouver BC Canada, please visit pleasantmountainmusic.ca
Recorded at Pleasant Mountain Music on June 7th 2026.
Technical notes:
8K VR 180 video (originally from a 5.7K master from Vuze XR).
Video edited in Shotcut.
4 channel Audio recorded from Zoom H2n in Spatial Audio mode, rendered to stereo in Reaper using Ambisonic Toolkit, and mastered in Audacity. Compressor used: MCompressor. Limiter used: W1 Limiter by George Yohng (thank you George!).
Audio uploaded in uncompressed WAV format within MOV container to Youtube to preserve quality as much as possible.
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Hi everyone, this is Geoff from geoffmobile.com. Hope you’re having a fantastic day!
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Well, good news for Canadians! If you are in Canada and you have a Chevron gas station nearby, you may not know this, but Chevron has a rewards program called Journie. They offer discounts and a point system. In addition, I like Chevron because it has good quality gas, which is designated as “Top Tier” — a standard recommended by car brands like Kia for their hybrids.
If you’d like a one-time 2 cents per liter discount on gas through the Chevron Journie program, feel free to use my referral code in the video description below. You’ll save 2 cents a liter on your next fill-up at Chevron when you sign up for the Journie Rewards app. They also give you various discounts after you achieve certain milestones or earn points.
Another way you can save money is by linking your Air Canada Aeroplan number to your Journie account — they will then give you an extra 75 points, which you can redeem for gas discounts.
Please check out the Journie app via the link below and let me know how it goes. If you sign up and get your discount, I hope that helps you save a bit of money during this difficult time. Thank you very much — don’t forget to subscribe, and have a great day!
How to get 8K VR 180 videos to upload and render on YouTube properly as 8K, with Shotcut latest version – got it working, don’t forget to inject the VR 180 metadata!
Hi everyone, hope you’re doing great. This is Geoff from geoffmobile.com. Today I’m going to do a quick post for anyone out there who is a YouTube creator wondering: how do I get YouTube to recognize a video as 8K resolution when you upload it?
A bit of background first. If you are making videos on YouTube, you may have a fancy camera that can record in 8K, or you may want to upscale a video to 8K to preserve the quality. If you’re making VR180 videos — a certain kind of 360° or VR format — your camera may be shooting in 5.7K, but YouTube only offers 4K or 8K. So if you upload a 5.7K video, it’s going to be downgraded to 4K.
Instead, you may want to upscale it to 8K to render the full quality that you actually shot with your camera. That’s exactly why I want to make 8K videos on YouTube. I’ll upscale my 5.7K footage and render it out as 8K, then upload it to YouTube and have it recognized properly as 8K in the YouTube player. This looks a lot better on virtual reality headsets like the Quest 3, or on computers with high-end monitors, where you really want to take advantage of that 8K resolution.
So here’s the trick I found, which I’ve validated myself with my own videos.
If you have a VR180 video — a special kind of 3D/VR video — these videos have a 2:1 aspect ratio, meaning the width is two times the size of the height. The specific resolution you need to upload is:
8640 × 4320
Any good video editor should be able to export at this resolution. I recently contributed to an open source video editor called Shotcut, which now supports exporting at exactly 8640 × 4320. (I have a separate tutorial showing how to make VR180 videos in Shotcut.) If you use any lower resolution, YouTube may not recognize your video as 8K.
One more tip: even if you upload at the correct resolution, you may find that after two days it still hasn’t appeared as 8K. The only solution I’ve found is to delete the video from YouTube entirely and re-upload it at 8640 × 4320. This happened to me with a personal video of my son’s piano recital — the first upload wasn’t recognized as 8K, but after deleting and re-uploading, it was. When I go to that video in YouTube and choose the quality setting, it now lets me select 4320p, which is the 8K option.
A note on upscaling in Shotcut: you don’t need a separate upscaling step. Simply set your project’s target resolution to 8640 × 4320 and Shotcut will automatically upscale your footage as part of the export process. If your video editor doesn’t support this resolution, you can also use a tool like FFmpeg to upscale your video before uploading.
I’ll include the resolution details below, along with a link to Shotcut and my previous VR180 tutorial. I think VR180 is still a great format for 3D content that people can experience with their headsets — I definitely recommend trying it.
Thanks for reading! If you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. I’ve had at least one successful upload that worked, so I know it is possible. If it doesn’t work on the first try, just re-upload and it should pick it up. Good luck with your 8K videos!
Enjoy this live, stripped-down performance of Kenny Dorham’s classic jazz standard, “Blue Bossa.” Featuring just vocals and piano, we wanted to capture the raw, intimate energy of a live performance right here in Vancouver.
We hope you enjoy our take on this iconic tune!
Let us know what you think of the arrangement in the comments below, and don’t forget to like and subscribe for more live music.
🎵 Song: Blue Bossa
✍️ Original Composer: Kenny Dorham
🎤 Vocals: Geoff Peters
🎹 Piano: John Peters
