So you are saying the audio is captured seperatly and then lined up using timecode?

how do you sync the audio and video when you capture sepaertly

any tips on were to research this?

What type of project will you be doing? Will you be working alone?
While there are certainly circumstances that warrant using an external audio recorder, there are also ways to substantially improve the audio you record to the camera.
Check out this link for some info and let us know what the specific circumstances are for your upcoming project.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/location_sound.html

Hi

great info , Thanks!



Location:


This will be shot in a recording studio discussing Pro Tools use in a pro enviorment with an enginneer.

and other footage possibly at the U of W intervieing a couple instrucors.

So some will be interview and some will involove showing at least one track being "tracked" at the remote studio.

as you might have guessed, I know how to record audio in the studio. Ive just never done it with cameras and had excellant quality.


I guess we are going to just get the xl1 or the new panasonic and run mixed and balanced audio into the camera. Thanks for the help....time to go spend some $$$$$

Syncing the audio up would be very easy after the fact. Just record the audio on the camcorder along with the video and on a seperate device. Then just line up the better quality audio with the poor quality audio that's already "N'sync" :-)

Hey,

why not record right into vegas on a laptop

As already mentioned, there are lots of alternatives on how to accomplish improving your audio. The best course of action is going to depend on the camera you end up using, the other audio gear you have access to and how much time, money and people you have budgeted for shooting and post-production.
Achieving sync between double-system recordings isnt the problem, that's very easy to accomplish if you're talking about only a few long takes. But dont be fooled by how easy that is to do when you're just testing. Maintaining the relationship between all the recorded material with non-matching timecode over the course of the project, especially as it is cut into smaller and smaller pieces during editing is where the trouble can come.
Even if you do decide that double-system recording is the way to go, I'd suggest that you still put forth reasonable effort to improving the sound recorded to the camera. That can pay a lot of dividends when assembling the project.