Just wondering if a person is NOT doing features and only broadcast, will using recording devices, tricked out mics, mixers, and all that other expensive stuff make much difference when your audio is playing through a single 3" mono speaker on typical 19" tv? Do it know? Not talking movie theaters here, just broadcast. Is a 416 and a 5000 dollar sound devices mixer overkill when the dislplay medium is pure junk?
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Sound Devices doesn't make a $5000 mixer and the 302 can be had for just over a grand.
As for TV broadcast, you can get away with worse s/n but to your detriment. The only example I would suggest where it can save you a few bucks in wireless. Most people will not hear any difference between a Sennheiser G2 vs a Lectro 201 with broadcast audio. OTOH, a lot of people are buiding home theater systems around there new HD TVs and you will hear it on those.
If you want to hear for yourself, get some of the audio samples from the stickie at top of forum and record them to a DVD, play them on your TV. Run some audio test for yourself and play them on TV.
If you are looking for an absolute minimum then a ME66 running directly into a DVX will suffice but why shoot low? It only serves to burn you.
Jeremy did a good job of putting together some minimum packages in this thread:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=51526
Cheers
As for TV broadcast, you can get away with worse s/n but to your detriment. The only example I would suggest where it can save you a few bucks in wireless. Most people will not hear any difference between a Sennheiser G2 vs a Lectro 201 with broadcast audio. OTOH, a lot of people are buiding home theater systems around there new HD TVs and you will hear it on those.
If you want to hear for yourself, get some of the audio samples from the stickie at top of forum and record them to a DVD, play them on your TV. Run some audio test for yourself and play them on TV.
If you are looking for an absolute minimum then a ME66 running directly into a DVX will suffice but why shoot low? It only serves to burn you.
Jeremy did a good job of putting together some minimum packages in this thread:
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=51526
Cheers
Unless you already have a contract for video distribution, you still have to impress the distributors in order to get picked up. Playing to the least common denominator will not serve you well in this regard. At a recent Indie Club meeting here in San Francisco they had three different distributors come and talk (and one film maker who's film just got theatrical distribution). They spent a bunch of time talking about the benefits of film vs. video for getting a distributor...so I had to chime in and ask them how important sound was. All three said that sound was at least equal to image quality, and one even said it was more important... (Understand that this was not biased towards me -- they didn't know I do sound...I had just screened my theatrical actor's reel, so they only knew me as the projectionist for the meeting and an actor.)
Phil
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its like in music production how they record everything at 24 bit even though music gets dithered to 16 bit and then often mp3'd - recording as best you can at the input stage allows the best possible ouput when you have to drop the quality at the end game.
it all boils down to junk in, junk out i guess.
it all boils down to junk in, junk out i guess.
