[Pete Burger]

I have only class 6 cards and had no problems until now with my T2i. With 1080p 25fps you can record up to about 12min per file (4GB) and that works for me.

[Pete Burger]

Getting the sound through a “proper” mic into an external device such as the Zoom will always give you way much better sound than the cam mic or even a shotgun mic mounted on the cam.

But it depends what you’re shooting.
If you’re just recording atmo-sounds and no dialogue the cam mic or a shotgun mic might be enough.

If you have dialogue… Well, this will get tricky!

A couple of times I had to shoot scenes with dialogue in them, with mounted shotgun-mics and it turned out, the sound was o.k. (not nearly good, but o.k.) after a lot of tweaking in post and putting music and pre-recorded atmo-sounds beneath the scene.

Have to add, I have no experience in shooting with mounted mics on DSLRs, but I think it will be no so much different to shooting with DV and HDV cams.

So if you’re shooting in a controlled environment, you might get away with a mounted shotgun-mic, but it might take a while to get the sound right in post.

Maybe you’d be a lot faster with syncing and you will definitly have way better sound.

I would never work with a built-in, especially not with those in a DSLR, because you will get all sorts of unwanted noise (your fingers pressing buttons, focussing, you even will hear your own breathing sometimes).
Another problem will be the AGC of some cams. It can be a pain in the a**

You wrote, that lavs are no option for you, so I won’t tell you that for a one-man-shoot those things are great (oops, I did that right now, didn’t I?), even if they are not as good as external solutions.

To cut a long story short: IMHO mounted zoom mics might work but will almost always force you to do a lot of work in post and they will most of the time not sound nearly as good as external devices.

Hope, this helps a bit!

[Pete Burger]

Well, what you could do – I do it rarely, because I had some stability problems with Premiere – is to sync every clip with that piece of audio that fits in a separate sequence and then create a “master sequence” where you put the synched clips in. They will be treated by Premiere like video clips. Since CS4 there is the option to nest audio and video clips directly from the timeline to a new sequence

[Pete Burger]

I made a couple of music videos in the last years, and had to sync about four or five video tracks to one audio track (the playback music). I edited those clips in CS3, so the workflow will be similar in CS5, I think.

I put every clip on a separate layer and synched it by audio (which you can do via the waveform, as Michael suggested) or if you have the same clip from different angles recorded with different cameras you can do this e.g. through the picture itself (e.g. the blink of an eye).

Then group the audio and video layers together, so video and audio won’t get unsynched anymore, when dragging it around.

Maybe you can work with the muliple-camera option, which I haven’t tried yet.

Hope this helps

[Pete Burger]

Thanks for the info. I only have only have two Canon lenses, one is the 50 1.8 which is the plastic one… I’ll have to be even more carfeluf with that one, I guess…

[Pete Burger]

Oh, boy… a DIY site, my wife will hate you for that ;-))

Seriously: Looks like a great site! Thanks, Joe!

Will dive in tomorrow.

[Pete Burger]

Hi, Joe!

Am I right, you found the information on the adobe site? That would have been the last place I’d look for 😉

I copied a piece of your answer and pasted it into google. I was directed to https://cinema5d.com, which happens to be a forum specifically for canon DSLRs and seems to be a great resource for information.

I’m new to the DSLR world, as I worked primarily with DV and HDV in the last couple of years, so there is a whole new universe for me to explore.

[Pete Burger]

In short: Yes, it does.

If you want deeper information, here’s a link to a previous post in this forum, that deals with that subject:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/280/850

Hope this helps

[Pete Burger]

Thanks again, Joseph! Your help is very much appreciated!
I knew the site, but was obviously a bit confused by the fact, that the picture styles don’t show up automatically when in movie mode (as they do in photo mode). I couldn’t find the proper information on the web. Maybe just searched the wrong keywords …

[Pete Burger]

Thanks a lot, Joseph!

That solved the problem.