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Stephanie Onyebetor
February 16, 2013 at 10:02 pm in reply to: 8 Channel (or Track) Audio Recorder? Maximum Peaks?

Hi Ty (and thanks Peter for your last post)

I’ve been researching the subject a bit since my original post and I think I’m understanding it a bit more.

So this specific project can be recorded in either Stereo OR Surround. So I will obviously be choosing stereo as, like you said, surround would be unnecessary for such a simple project. I’ve managed to scrape up enough money to hire a boom operator/sound recordist. He has his own equipment: a Zoom H4n with a MKH416 microphone with a Zeppelin (which I’m under the impression is a type of windsock??). He also has a Rode mic as well.

The final video has to be delivered with maximum audio peaks at 10db and at 48khz. Does that mean if we were to shoot audio that measured higher than 10db, I could simply adjust it to the appropriate level in post? Will be editing with FCP.

Another thing that confused me was the term “track” and “channel.” It seems that people interchange the two terms but they don’t seem to be exactly the same thing. Is a two-track recorder the same thing as a two-channel recorder??
Stephanie Onyebetor
February 14, 2013 at 3:50 am in reply to: 8 Channel (or Track) Audio Recorder? Maximum Peaks?

Thanks again, Peter.
Stephanie Onyebetor
February 8, 2013 at 3:14 am in reply to: 8 Channel (or Track) Audio Recorder? Maximum Peaks?

Thank you for responding Peter. I am a complete amateur so your alarm bells are definitely right to go off. This is a crowdsourcing project so I don’t really have great access to the producers.

We are supposed to format the video to HD 1280 X720p 16×9 so that it will play properly on the website. With the acceptable file formats being .mov, .avi, .mp4, .wmv. and the acceptable codecs being H.264 (MP4), MPEG-4, H.263, MPGV, WMV, DivX.

However, the actual video that would be broadcasted if chosen needs to be delivered in Apple ProRes 422 (HQ). And the needs to have 1920×1080 resolution a 29.97/59.94i frame rate.

So I was thinking of shooting it in 1080 then converting it later to 720p.

But in either case you dont necessarily SHOOT in surround. Get good recordings on the shoot with split audio where possible tec and planty of atoms and wild tracks.

When you say shoot with split audio, are you simply saying to shoot the audio separately? Tec? Not sure what you mean by that. I know what wild tracks are but you lost me on atoms. Planty? Do you mean plenty?