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Recording audio w/ no video?
Can I do that? Tongiht I need to get some voice overs and my VO person can’t come to the house. I have used the HVX with a small XLR shot gun with great results to do VO’s but it lays the video down with it. Is there a way to only do VO’s with out recording the video?
-Lars
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I do that by recording to Mini-DV tape… (but never with the camera mic of course)
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…meaning that you can capture to your edit system as audio only…
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Ahhh, ok so there is no way to record only voice to the P2 card. I’ve had the camera about a month now and I haven’t even opened the Mini DV casset area on the camera.
-Lars
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Regardless of whether you use the P2 card or the mini dv tape you are still going to record video. It is a video camera with audio recording capabilities as well. It is not a stand alone audio recorder. If you want to use the P2 card for the VO’s just set the video portion to DV so you can get more recording time.
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That is what I have been doing by setting it to DV mode. But since I saw the camera had Audio dubbing ability I thought that I would toss out that question to see if I was missing something.
Thanks anyways.
-Lars
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Maybe you should consider adding a seperate audio recording device to your kit bag. You can get direct to computer recording interfaces for under $500 these days. The HVX can be used as an audio recorder although you’re wasting an incredibly high quality and expensive HD camera in the process.
Noah
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