At a recent shoot for my show I had a chance to try out the Double Ended Video Sound system that David Tames presented at the recent PodcampBoston2 .. and it worked *very* well.
The system is basically using a separate recorder for audio rather than a wireless mic or the built-in mic in the camcorder. I had tried this over a year ago with a low end digital voice recorder but had *major* sync problems. This time I used something decent .. my Edirol R-09 and only had to slightly tweak the sync after about 40 minutes or so (the shoot was about 55 min) The audio of the two panel members was *much* cleaner than the audio from the camcorder. I will use this technique more in the future. I had tried various things to get better audio .. starting with an on-camera shotgun, then a low end wireless mic (VHF), then another low end wireless (UHF), then a medium end wireless (UHF) .. but this works the best. David's presentation: http://n1jdu.org/temp/Double_Ended_Video_Shooting_1.mp3 My video (using his technique): http://n1jdu.org/Fandom/Sci_Fi_Fandom_20.ram Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
