Getting better audio???

Stephen J

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Mar 3, 2016
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Hello peoples, first off I know very little about this stuff so if you respond layman's terms would work best. I am recording songs with vocals and guitar onto a Vixia HF R200. The audio sucks. I have a Fostex MR16 recording system. If I could record and run the audio through the MR16 then to the camera I'd get some great audio. There is phones, aux, and stereo out on the MR16 and I have adaptors and cables for just about any connection and a couple cheap apex mic's. Any suggestions on camera settings or how to put this together would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 

NAC

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The camera may have a mic-in, so you'd just have to run a cord into it. I think you will get some loss of fidelity because you'll be using the camcorder audio compression which may not be as good as other devices.

I record audio via a separate device, and then synchronize the two on a computer when editing the video. It is very easy to synchronize manually - just visually look at the peaks and then move a clip until they line up. Some software will even do it automatically.
 

Stephen J

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Mar 3, 2016
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Thanks for the input. I've never done any editing so it would be all new to me and I don't know the learning curve involved. Is there any free or cheap software out there that might be a good starting point. I'm hoping my spouse will perhaps take on this task so I can concentrate on recorder settings and playing. Thanks again.
 

EOM

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Yep, I'd record straight to the Fostex, likely much higher fidelity than going to the camera. If the fostex has a line-out you can then run that to the camera so that way it'll be easier to sync later.

There's lots of free software out there, if you use Linux, i'm learning to play with Kdenlive and it's pretty straightforward to sync a video feed with an audio feed. even iMovie on the mac could probably do it.
 

Syborg1211

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One trick I've seen people do to make syncing audio and video easier is to clap a few times at the beginning of the recording. Makes it easier to sync up the sound of the clap with the frame in the video where the hands clapped.
 

EOM

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One trick I've seen people do to make syncing audio and video easier is to clap a few times at the beginning of the recording. Makes it easier to sync up the sound of the clap with the frame in the video where the hands clapped.

Yep, just like a clapper board on movie production sets! Kdenlive as I mentioned before (which is free) does have a sound sync function that can help you line up different audio sources.
 

Stephen J

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Mar 3, 2016
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So the consensus is separate audio and video then sync it up. I will no doubt be back with all the ?'s that will arise from that approach. Top notch forum folks, really appreciate all the input. Thanks a bunch.
 
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