Tony Connoly
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David-
I am not sure why I was hung up over this. What I do now is very simple: if I have 4 video clips that go with a single audio clip all I do is sync each video clip with the audio clip separately and trim the edges. Sometimes I also create a sequence with the whole package in case for some reason I need to use all of the audio uninterrupted (in which case I’ll fill in the video gaps with other stuff). I can also see the value of exporting the sequence to a new file, but I haven’t had to do that.
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I will try that. Thank you.
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If you believe
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm
the gains from the GT240 with DDR5 are about as much as you’d hope to gain from the hardware assistance at this point.
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Any thoughts on preamp/recorder?
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Bill,
I love your eloquent response! Note that my option (4) involves feeding one of the preamps into the one of the recorders, not into the camera.
Is that any better than using the recorder by itself (i.e. using the recorder’s pre-amp)?
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Got it. Thanks Ty. I need to be able to monitor while recording before I can learn to use it, hence one of the reasons for my other question re: preamp/recorder.
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Please don’t laugh, it’s an Olympus E-PL1. It captures very nice video in a tiny package with superb lenses, but its audio capture is not so good.
I am planning to upgrade to a Nikon D7000, Panasonic GH2 or Canon 60D. I think all of these have manual gain controls (don’t know how clean it would be at anything but the lowest setting).
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Ty, I tried the camera audio recording.
The biggest problem is hiss, caused by the gain circuitry. Really bad on my camera.
I found a workaround to the hiss: I direct the mic to the left channel and a 19Khz noise to the right channel, which causes the camera to clamp down on the auto-gain control. The hiss goes away. Nice, but:
Problems with this approach:
(1) Clunky. Two wires and an MP3 player dangling from the camera.
(2) No monitoring. Yesterday, I forgot to turn on the MP3 player and ended up recording hiss.
(3) Limited to one channel.
(4) Crossover. I see a faint 19Khz waveform in the left channel.
(5) No gain control means the level is not optimal. Not sure this would work at all with a low-output dynamic mic.
(6) Limited to 44/16 recording. Probably have more distortion and aother bad stuff than with a quality set-up.
Perhaps a better solution to the hiss is to get a better camera, but I would still have (6) to think about–better recorders do give cleaner sound, I think.
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Ty,
I am really, honestly confused. When you say “this approach won’t work” which approach are you referring to, and how do you recommend I change it?
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My concern is that if I plug the dynamic mic into a cheap recorder like the Zoom H4n, I would have to turn the gain up so high that the noise levels would be too high. Unfortunately I can’t try this before I get all of the gear.