Thanks everyone for advice. Yes, the hum sound is steady and it's through the whole filming (silent and voice), but it's just the level of volume of it that bothered me. I usually film 5-10 sec of quiet room ambient sound so that I can use it for cleaning the sound during editing, but this time it didn't help.
I've been practicing a lot with the camera over these past days to try to figure out where the problem may be and I think that it's camera that makes this noise. I tried mic mounted on it, further from it-on a tripod..it still gave that hum sound. Even when the mic was off, I could still see the level of noise on my camera showing up. So I'm not sure if the jack is bad or if the camera is too loud in general. So I will probably end up leaving that background noise throughout the video. Now that I edited the clip, the sound doesn't seem so bad anymore. Maybe I just got used to it, I don't know :) But all the other versions of my sound cleaning just don't give me what I want-either the interviewee voice too thin, or the background noise not clean enough. Thanks again for your tips. I have a question about lavaliere. For interviews, is it better to use this type of mic.? Does it pick up less ambient sound. What about if I film outside with it..what noises does it pick up? If I filmed outside with a lavaliere and if it didn't pick up enough outside noise, maybe it wouldn't give the real sense of the environment? I don't know. Or is it enough to use the shot mic that I have and just mount it on a boom pole (any recommendations on which are good?) as close to the object as possible? Thanks again! Loreta --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sean Kaminsky <kaminsky...@...> wrote: > > i had a problem like this once and i ended up using some room tone and > adding the hum beneath my 'non hum' segments. it depends how bad it is > - but often if something is steady people won't even notice it. it's > the contrasts between sound and silence that are a killer...:) > > for future shoots (mainly for sit-downs) - if u think it's camera > noise consider buying a 6 foot or so xlr cable and mounting the mic on > something else (even gaffer taped to a chair). > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Rupert Howe <rup...@...> wrote: > > Do you get a hum wherever you film inside, or particularly in one > > location? Lots of household/office appliances that we can't hear or > > filter out make a big hum when recorded - air con, computers, fridges, > > etc. Try being ruthless about shutting everything off when filming. > > Keep different types of cables away from each other, and if you need > > to cross them, do so at right angles. > > Test whether it's the tape mechanism that's making a lot of noise by > > monitoring the audio with a good pair of headphones at a distance from > > the camera, both with and without the tape running. > > > > Rupert > > http://twittervlog.tv > > > > On 26 Jan 2010, at 08:38, loretabirkus wrote: > > > >> Hello again, > >> > >> I would like to know how you manage to record a sound with minimum > >> hum in a room environment. I have a good microphone that I use for > >> my filming, but I always get a huge hum sound if I film inside. > >> > >> I used Audacity to eliminate the background noise, but sometimes it > >> doesn't work and it makes the voice sound weirdly alien :) > >> > >> I even purchased a new Rode Videomic to see if there's any > >> difference in the hum sound volume and I still get it with this mic > >> as well. > >> > >> Any tips how to eliminate as much as possible the hum noise during > >> filming so that there's less work during editing? And how to > >> eliminate the hum noise and keep a descent quality during the > >> editing process? > >> > >> I'm stuck on this now as I'm trying all ways (Audacity, Adobe > >> Audition, Magic Audio cleaning softwares) to remove the noise and I > >> don't get the results that I want. > >> > >> Thanks much! > >> > >> Loreta > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
