8mm question

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hmfilmer

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what do i look for, if i wanna buy a 8mm camera that films the picture and sound?

when you get it process do you do the sound separately or what?
 
I'm pretty sure all Film cameras do not record audio. You need to record it seperately. I shoot Super 8mm film on a Nizo 801 and record audio with a DVX100A.
 
ImageBrew said:
I'm pretty sure all Film cameras do not record audio. You need to record it seperately. I shoot Super 8mm film on a Nizo 801 and record audio with a DVX100A.
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even newer 8mm camera dont record the sound either?

how would you film and record the sound with two camera?
 
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I'm pretty sure all Film cameras do not record audio. You need to record it seperately. I shoot Super 8mm film on a Nizo 801 and record audio with a DVX100A.
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Yes you can record sound on an super8 camera. I have one(sankyo somehthing) and it has a little jack to put a microphone in there. Now, the hard part isn't finding a camera that can record sound, it's finding the film that is sound recordable(I won't even go there as I don't know all that much about them).
 
Is it like this with 16mm and 35mm cameras also? they dont record the sound but you need to get a mircophone to record the sound also?

thanks for clearing that up for me
 
hmfilmer said:
Is it like this with 16mm and 35mm cameras also? they dont record the sound but you need to get a mircophone to record the sound also?

thanks for clearing that up for me
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Even high end digital video shoots may shoot double system sound.
 
if you are shooting longer takes i would definately by a super 8 camera with a crystal synch....

otherwise post is hell.
 
thematthewbone said:
if you are shooting longer takes i would definately by a super 8 camera with a crystal synch....

otherwise post is hell.
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It really depends on far "off" the camera is. I've sunk up dailies that were shot on a Canon scoopic and then transferred to betcam sp. We were able to sync up anywhere from 7 minutes worth of takes to as much as 10-12 minutes worth of takes every hour. The worst case scenario was we had to resync every 7-10 seconds, the best case was one time we were getting 40 seconds worth of sync!

I learned a cool trick that might have save us time. Once I knew which way the camera sync drifted (on any given day, whether it was slightly faster or slower, it seemed to stay that way for the whole shoot day), I would not sync exactly to the sync, but rather I would favor up to two video frames in the opposite way of sync, so if the video was "fast", I would purposely make it start two frames behind at the beginning, this gave me a four video swing which usually extended a scene's sync time dramatically.
 
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