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
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
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
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
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
DetailsIt 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
I had my own opinions on the matter of which lighting technique to
use for streaming. However, I wanted confirmation, so I contacted Roger
Chang, who produces two shows for Ziff Davis Media — DL.TV with
Patrick Norton and Robert Heron and Cr
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
After speaking with Chang, I was eager to try his idea of using one
key light behind the camera because this would save transporting
another light on portable shoots and would guarantee absolute even
lighting across the face. Rather than using the
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
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