First wedding cinema
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newtodvx100a
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Nice work!
Marc Holmes
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Great video
Great video
I realy like you photography style and its a great video and nice story of the wedding day. The only thing which let it down was the audio you recorded of the event. did you use the internal mic?
Great video
I realy like you photography style and its a great video and nice story of the wedding day. The only thing which let it down was the audio you recorded of the event. did you use the internal mic?
no, I used an H2 handycam plugged into the internal.
I don't do video, at all. I recorded audio externally as well with the zoom h4n, but I'm not great with editing video either, it's there but I'd rather stick with what I got than screw it up trying things i don't know how to do.
I don't do video, at all. I recorded audio externally as well with the zoom h4n, but I'm not great with editing video either, it's there but I'd rather stick with what I got than screw it up trying things i don't know how to do.
Marc Holmes
Member
Well for some who doesn't do video that was good video
And not screwing up a job by trying some thing new is good thing. Now the jobs over you can try new things.The H2 and H4N have good cardioid mic's great for recording a crowd as a whole. though for speeches you either want to place one of those mic near the speakers or get a feed of a pa system, a shotgun is what you want for a distance recording especially considering that you wish to isolate one person (like a rode video mic pro) . Unfortunatly the D7000 auto-sensitivity can ruin a good recording, syncing with the external is the only answer. Take a look at this video for setting up you audio equipment as a basic tut to get you started
And for sync you can either learn to do it manually AKA the hard way or you could do it without effort by using pluraleyes
deltoidjohn
Veteran
A shotugn mic does not work effectively over long distances, nor will it isolate a single speaker in a crowd. A shotgun mic simply records with a directional pattern that somewhat resembles the blast from a shotgun - straight ahead, fanning outwards, and effective only at close range. A shotgun mic is most effective from 6" - 3' away. They are best suited to interviews or dialogue where the mic can be placed right in front of the speaker just out of the frame. If you use them from much further away that that, then you'll mainly just be getting ambience, albeit at a better quality than the D7000 mic is capable of..
What you really want for these situations is a wireless lapel mic, preferably 2. Of course, I wouldn't expect the OP to have used one for a one off job which is not a paid project.
Marc Holmes
Member
shotgun inst a miracle mic and it wasn't my first suggestion either. my first suggestion was to place a mic nearer, then use the PA system which is already recording the speakers voice and then finally the shotgun. Shotgun have a polar pick up which is behind and forward with a little from the side, of the standard pick-up pattern the polar pattern best of pick-up the audio of person far away and isolating them than other standard mic's at that range.
A wireless lapel mic system is overly expensive for a recording which is not being broad cast live and it can also be effected by radio interference, A H1 connected to a lapel mic is a better solution for price/quality issue. The problem with either lapel method is you need to know who is talking before hand and have a set-up on each on of them up which is rather complicated and possibly expensive for a recording set up, alternately you could get a feed of the PA system as suggested which every one will use and they have a mic which people are already talking into.
