Question for 7d event shooters

jambredz

jambredz

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how the heck do you do audio for those situations lol :) Its a serious question though...i'm gonna get my 7d for music vids, and commercials where a sound person is hired (and my personal films), but how the heck do you do a wedding??? i;m not interested in weddings but i'd luv to know how you guys manage it. I can understand in docs or interview situations where u can even ask the talent to clap (if theyare ok with it)...but a wedding?? Do tell
 
Can't say for sure as I've never tried it, but I'm sure some people use Pluraleyes to sync audio. I've heard it works quite well.
 
I haven't used HDSLR's for event work yet, but there's no reason it would be different than anything else. I find a phrase or word that's easy to locate, make a cut in the video on the exact last frame, line up the audio at the end of the same word and put them together from that. Then I play with both the actual audio and sync track going to see if it worked. It's a pain in the ass. Pluraleyes probably works better, but I have no problem doing it by hand.
 
If you have a Rode video mic on camera, you can use Pluraleyes software to sync it up. Without recording some kind of reference sound on camera(or Rode mic better!) It would be extremely difficult to sync up the audio. No clapping necessary!
 
Green Hornet said:
I would be more concerned about the time cut off every 12 minutes or so.
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Shouldn't matter, if you keep the H4n rolling, you make as many cuts as you want with the camera. Plural eyes will find the matching audio and sync it up as long as the Rode mic your working with is picking up the same source as the H4n.
 
PluralEyes is definitely great, but you DO NOT need the Rode Video Mic to use the software. The 7D – or for that matter T2i or 5DMKII – has a built-in microphone which, while low in quality, is more than adequate for PluralEyes to do its thing.
 
I use Zoom H4N for continous audio, if you don't have seperate audio, no big deal, stop and start recording right before the vows start so you have full 12 minutes, I've been shooting weddings for a long time and never have vows that goes longer than 12 minutes (-:, for Catholics ceremony, I don't want taking a chance on overheating so I still use video camera for that.
 
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