sound for first short

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i am about to shoot a short on dvx100a-- would you advise against recording the sound straight into the camera with a boom (shotgun) mic on a pole and a long cable? what is the cheapest way to record into a separate device?
if i do go straight into the camera, should I go into both channels or just one?

and a separate sound question: how do I do phone voiceover dialogue? I was thinking of just recording it separately and altering it in post.

thank you for the help
 
When we shoot, we usually use an m-audio firewire 410. It supports 24bit/96khz. We take our XLR straight into that, and record on a laptop using Adobe Audition. You could just as easily go into the camera, and get good sound though. The DVX actually has pretty good audio recording capability's. The cheapest way to record to an external device depends on how good you want your audio to be, and how portable you want that external device to be. Our m-audio setup is about 400 for the box, which is basically a firewire breakout box, plus the cost of the laptop or other computer if you don't already have one. Adobe audition is about 300 dollars. Some other solutions may be a DAT recorder, however, sometimes a DAT recorder gets you audio that isnt any better than the camera. That being said, there is nothing wrong with recording straight to the camera. You will get audio that is just fine. You may want to run the mic through a mixer then to the camera though. Other than that, audition has some really great noise reduction tools that can clean up your audio and get it sounding good. Hope that helps
 
yeah, it just depends an who you have to help you. You could run right into the cam with a shotgun or if you just can't get the levels up that way you could use an external preamp and portable mixer/ multitrack to get the sound that way. But then make sure you use a clapperslate or log sheet to remember what you get.

I have a Foxtex 8 track digital recorder that records in 44.1 / 16 bit for like 250 - 300 bucks. It works pretty well. has 1/4" and XLR inputs, 1/4" and optical out, plus some mic 'sound colorings ' to make your mic sound a bit more like a tube mic or dynamic or condenser etc....
 
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