Hello,
I am very new to movie making and vegas (purchased the
platinum edition), I am attempting to make a short educational
documentary that going to burn to dvd (seems along way off
at the moment !).
I had some questions on audio that I am hoping someone will
be able to answer. I am working to a very small budget and
the camcorder I have bought (sony DCR-HC47E) has a built
in microphone. I am aware this will not give good quality
especially as will be doing a lot of filming on a boat where
wind and engine noise will play a part. I am trying to get
the best audio I can and getting a bit confused on some
areas :
1) The camcorder instructions say the default setting for sound
is 12 bit which allows a second soundtrack later (think this is
what it is saying) or can go for 16 bit. I am assuming that
I should go for the 16bit to get the best audio possible if
anything from the camcorder is useable ?
2) I was planning on adding audio when back at home by connecting
a micropohone to my laptop and recording the documentary speech
that way. I am assuming with Vegas this is easily done ?
(thining of the Sony ECM-MS907 microphone which is about in my
budget)
3) I would like to try and get some sounds from the on-boat
filming and have toyed with taking the laptop and using the
microphone above with me but not always practical when on the
move (laptop not the mic). I have thought about portable
recording devices and looking through the forums can see
minidisc cropping up. I am in the market for an mp3 player
and was looking at the Archos 402
http://www.archos.com/products/video/gmini_402/tech_specs.html?country=gb&lang=en
And here is where more confsuion come in for me. The specs of
the above device that seems to allow you to plug your own mic
in via an adapter, tech spec says "analog source in stereo
sound" - can I plug a digital mic in ? Also the format is WAV
(PCM & ADPCM) and wondered if this format is a good format
(I believe the latter to be more compressed so guess the PCM
is the setting to use) or am I barking up the wrong tree ?
Any help greatly appreciated as only have couple of weeks to
get all the footage on the boat and not much time to play with
stuff before hand.
Many thanks
Lawrence
I am very new to movie making and vegas (purchased the
platinum edition), I am attempting to make a short educational
documentary that going to burn to dvd (seems along way off
at the moment !).
I had some questions on audio that I am hoping someone will
be able to answer. I am working to a very small budget and
the camcorder I have bought (sony DCR-HC47E) has a built
in microphone. I am aware this will not give good quality
especially as will be doing a lot of filming on a boat where
wind and engine noise will play a part. I am trying to get
the best audio I can and getting a bit confused on some
areas :
1) The camcorder instructions say the default setting for sound
is 12 bit which allows a second soundtrack later (think this is
what it is saying) or can go for 16 bit. I am assuming that
I should go for the 16bit to get the best audio possible if
anything from the camcorder is useable ?
2) I was planning on adding audio when back at home by connecting
a micropohone to my laptop and recording the documentary speech
that way. I am assuming with Vegas this is easily done ?
(thining of the Sony ECM-MS907 microphone which is about in my
budget)
3) I would like to try and get some sounds from the on-boat
filming and have toyed with taking the laptop and using the
microphone above with me but not always practical when on the
move (laptop not the mic). I have thought about portable
recording devices and looking through the forums can see
minidisc cropping up. I am in the market for an mp3 player
and was looking at the Archos 402
http://www.archos.com/products/video/gmini_402/tech_specs.html?country=gb&lang=en
And here is where more confsuion come in for me. The specs of
the above device that seems to allow you to plug your own mic
in via an adapter, tech spec says "analog source in stereo
sound" - can I plug a digital mic in ? Also the format is WAV
(PCM & ADPCM) and wondered if this format is a good format
(I believe the latter to be more compressed so guess the PCM
is the setting to use) or am I barking up the wrong tree ?
Any help greatly appreciated as only have couple of weeks to
get all the footage on the boat and not much time to play with
stuff before hand.
Many thanks
Lawrence