Finishing Up
This brings up a critical point on
saving intermediate files while editing. Though you can undo all of the
tasks described above while you’re editing the file, once you
save the file, you can’t go back—Soundbooth applies all
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Capturing High Quality Audio
It generally only takes a video shoot or two before you realize that
the weakest link on your camcorder is the microphone. Don’t worry: It’s
not you, or really your camcorder for that matter, just the simple fact
of life that all onboard microphon
Checklist for using an external microphone
When you attach an external microphone to your camcorder, you’re going to have to change some settings on the camcorder to tell it to ignore its internal microphone and record from the external. You’ll also have to set gain controls to make sure that
Choosing a microphone: the three questions
This leads us to the three issues you need to address before buying
a microphone. Note that you have to ask the same questions whether the
microphone is wired or wireless, since the issues are identical.What is the pickup pattern?First
is the pick
Choosing an XLR adapter for your camcorder
So, if you want to use a high-end microphone with your camcorder and
you don’t have an XLR jack, you’ll have to find a way to convert from
the XLR cable to the 3.5mm connector on your camera. We explored two
alternatives.The first was a “line matc
Choosing the highest quality microphone option
So those are the microphones and the ways they connect. But how do they perform?To
test performance, we used a high-quality, digitized recording of a
woman speaking, played back over computer speakers at a standardized
volume. To create ambient so
Connection options
There are two ways to
connect external microphones to camcorders, though not all camcorders
offer either or both options. First, of course, is your microphone
port, which comes in two general categories. One is an XLR connector,
which is typicall
Microphone options
Figure 3 shows a good cross section of the types of microphones you should be
considering for your shoots. Let’s briefly identify them, and then
cover the three characteristics of microphones you need to learn before
buying.
Figure
Setting up Flat and Three-point Lighting
The dramatic shadows created by three-point lighting have been a staple
of movies and television production since their inception, and
three-point lighting remains highly touted in most tutorials, articles,
and books on video lighting. However, a
Three-point lighting and conclusion
As mentioned above, the interviews with local band No Speed Limit
were primarily to create a DVD to send to festival promoters along with
a couple of songs from a concert I shot on New Year’s Eve. The group
also wanted to upload the interviews to