Getting a Boom.. have questions

ramsaur

ramsaur

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I'm buying myself a boom, but i'm not familiar with booms too much except that it is a very high quality mic that pics up any sound anywhere very very well. Just the question for all the sound it record where does the audio store to so you can take it out and edit into your movie?

And.. any good sites to look at them to buy? The only site i've been at is www.bargain-camera.com
 
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ramsaur said:
... a very high quality mic that pics up any sound anywhere very very well.
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If you find a store selling this, ask for a camera that films any picture very very well:2vrolijk_08:
Seriously:
Boom = (extendable) pole to hang stuff from, like mics, lights, props...
And what you ment to describe - did you maybe mean a shotgun mic?
You often find them at the end of a boom:laugh:, picking that part of sound from a scene you really want to record, like eg the speech of the actors...
Read the audio stickys and google Jay Rose, this will give you a good start!
Good luck!
 
ramsaur said:
I'm buying myself a boom, but i'm not familiar with booms too much except that it is a very high quality mic that pics up any sound anywhere very very well. Just the question for all the sound it record where does the audio store to so you can take it out and edit into your movie?

And.. any good sites to look at them to buy? The only site i've been at is www.bargain-camera.com
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The boom is a stick to hold the mic on the end. The mic has a long cable that runs directly to the camera's external mic input where the sound is recorded on your tape. You might also run it through a preamp or mixer on its way to the camera or you might run it to an audio recorder instead of the camera (called 'double system sound').

Since you haven't said what camera you use, what other sound gear you have or plan to buy, and just what and where you're shooting it's hard to recommend anything specific. I'm going to guess that you have a consumer video camera with a 1/8 mini mic input. If that's the case you could do worse than the Rode Videomic and Rode's matching boom.
 
Steve House said:
The boom is a stick to hold the mic on the end. The mic has a long cable that runs directly to the camera's external mic input where the sound is recorded on your tape. You might also run it through a preamp or mixer on its way to the camera or you might run it to an audio recorder instead of the camera (called 'double system sound').

Since you haven't said what camera you use, what other sound gear you have or plan to buy, and just what and where you're shooting it's hard to recommend anything specific. I'm going to guess that you have a consumer video camera with a 1/8 mini mic input. If that's the case you could do worse than the Rode Videomic and Rode's matching boom.
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you guessed wrong. I wish though. The camera doesn't have a place to put a mic on. It's a Canon HV10.

I'm looking at my camera now and the only plug-ins I see are AV/IN/OUT, Component Out, the DV firewire slot, USB slot, and of course the slot for your charger. Is there anywhere I can run the cord to like.. say a recording box/tape/something that you could have a crew member carry around as we film?
 
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ramsaur said:
you guessed wrong. I wish though. The camera doesn't have a place to put a mic on. It's a Canon HV10.

I'm looking at my camera now and the only plug-ins I see are AV/IN/OUT, Component Out, the DV firewire slot, USB slot, and of course the slot for your charger. Is there anywhere I can run the cord to like.. say a recording box/tape/something that you could have a crew member carry around as we film?
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You could get a portable mini compact flash recorder like the Zoom H2 or H4 or an m-Audio microtrack. There's a lot of things to consider, though, to be able to record good sound that can later be synced to the video. I'd suggest starting with a bit of book learning homework on audio basics - Jay Rose's book "Great Sound for Digital Video" is a great place to start.
 
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