Steve Crow
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Was this screen capture from the far background of your video frame? It could be just the resolution breaking down if this is a zoom in on part of the image. Most likely though it’s related to ISO what was your ISO?
Was any editing done on the video – any filters or adjustments?
Steve Crow
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I think the 6500 is a great choice, look into loupes for the back LCD screen that will magnify and block the sun or even an external monitor.
Steve Crow
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I think either of those 2 cameras would be an excellent choice Alex. The A7SII has that amazing low light capability which can get you out of jam if you don’t have enough light to work with but the A7RII is quite an excellent camera as well. I’d probably go with the A7SII just because it APPEARS to be the one that is more focused on video between the two but that’s just an impression that would need to be investigated before purchasing.
There is only one area where Canon still has an advantage over Sony and that would be in the color science. Sony has been long criticized for a less warm capture of skin tones – with some even going so far as to call it a “vampire” look HOWEVER color grading during editing can do a heck of lot to correct that and there are even LUTs designed to give Sony footage that “Canon look.” Also, Canon probably still has an advantage in the lens area but with adapters from companies like Metabones – I’d be hard pressed to suggest buying a Canon over a Sony with Canon glass for DSLR style video…Canon is just too slow and too protective of their cinema series these days 🙁
Steve Crow
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The latter
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The T2i has very poor audio recording due to its preamp that creates lots of hiss – try dual audio recording by recording your sound onto a seperate higher quality audio recorder and then syncing in post
Steve Crow
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All the momentum seems to be with Sony now in the aps-c to full frame sensor space
Steve Crow
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I’m not sure at all but one thing I would check out would the memory card itself onto which the video was shot – perhaps it’s corrupted or is simply too slow and what you are seeing are dropouts…one thing you could do is bring the video into an editing program and look at it at the frame level to see if you there appears there are any dropped frames
Steve Crow
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Was this shot indoors through a window or was the camera outside?
Steve Crow
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There are other techniques to record high quality audio such as putting a lavalier mic on the talent that is wired to a small audio recorder hidden on their body but then you wouldn’t be able to monitor the resulting sound.
Dual Audio is the standard technique used for DSLR video especially when the camera doesn’t have a headphone jack.
I guess it’s worth mentioning that you can hire a sound person who can mic the talent and monitor the audio during the filming but a lot of us can’t afford to hire a crew person – maybe you can find a volunteer with some experience?
Steve Crow
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Lucy,
It’s called “dual sound recording” – what you are doing is attaching your lavalier mic or shotgun mic to the Tascam recorder which is obviously not part of the camera. The Tascam has a headphone jack so that you can monitor your sound while recording which is really a must.
Your camera is still recording its own audio but it it will be very low quality, however for the next step it’s good enough usually.
The last step is that in editing you are going to synchronize or “sync” the audio recording on the Tascam to the video clip with the poor audio that your DSLR recorded. Once they are in perfectly in sync you will then turn off the camera recorded sound leaving you with just the high quality sound track in your editing program.
Some people go the extra step and attach a higher quality small microphone to their camera just so that they have better sound being recorded by the camera – it helps with syncing and in some cases (like if you forget to turn on the audio recorder while filming) at least you have some “OK-ish” sound to work with.
Steve Crow