[Ty Ford]

Hi Frank,

How bout one of those camcorders that uses mini DVD discs? I’d get one of them that was expensive enough to have external audio inputs and do the whole thing that way without using your recorder. The recorder requires too many steps.

You could also get a DVD recorder and port your camera right into that.

I so something a bit more upscale than that for some of my clients. We shoot here in my audio studio.
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[Ty Ford]

Hello Frank and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

You are gambling that the clock of your camera and DVD burning process is the same as that of your audio recording. I’d say you have a 50/50 chance.

Maybe Adobe Premiere for importing your video and then trying to align your audio visually by comparing the waveform of the video to that of your separately recorded audio.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Zeban and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Sadly there is no cure for that disease except the reshoot filter.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Peter and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

So it seems like the gear should work, but doesn’t.

Dig around in the Mac Sound Control Panel AND the Audio/MIDI setup app in the Applications>utilities folder.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Irina and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Soundtrack pro should work, maybe even FCP. I have FCP but haven’t tried that yet.

The PD4 has timecode. I don’t think Macbook Pro has an input that accepts timecode.

One solution would be to use Boom Recoder software on you Mac. Boom Recorder senses time code at any analog input and converts that input to a timecode input, recording it with the audio.

If you are using two tracks of audio your Mac doesn’t have enough inputs for the timecode track. BoomREcorder works with a number of different I/O boxes. Google BoomRecorder and check the site for I/O boxed that have at least three inputs. You could get one with analog inputs and stream the audio form DAT to the Mac, or exit the DAT via AES or S/PDIF digital.

I don’t think the AES carries timecode, but I’m not certain. Check with Fostex about that. Rick Cannata is the guy at Fostex who can answer that, or try the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.production.sound.
If the PD4 AES stream does carry timecode info, you may stream it without having to use the dedicated timecode output.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Excellent Craig,

A plausible “people” solution instead one that centers on technology.

Thanks for sharing your thoughtful ideas on the Cow.

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[Ty Ford]

Find a sound guy with a Shure FP410 automixer. Four mic inputs, four lavs, one on each person speaking.

Mono out to one or both tracks of your camera.

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[Ty Ford]

Josh,

There is no mic that can accomplish good indoor group recording. Please elaborate on what you actually envision doing.

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[Ty Ford]

Tony,

Thanks for the sharing what you learned!

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[Ty Ford]

[Jim Bruce] “Thanks for chiming in. We actually will be using a solid backdrop and blanketing all windows (for lighting purposes) which should really help.

> add some rugs and drape some fabric over c-stand arms just out of frame. That’ll knock down some more slap.

I realize this is frustrating for some folks but for me the cost of both a 416 and the Schoeps is simply not in the cards for us. And we already need the 416 for exteriors where the Schoeps would not be useful. Trust me I wish I had a bigger sound budget! And of course if we run into problems we’ll have the ECM 77B as a backup. If we do seem to get terrible sound with the 416 I will probably sell one of my small children to a nice family and buy the Schoeps but out of the gate it’s just not in our budget.

> a cmc641 is fine outside. I use mine all the time.

While you’re here I’d love to get your take on a good boom clamp of some kind for mounting boom to C stand.

>C-stand, knuckle, fishing rod bracket from fishing hardware store.

>https://idisk.mac.com/tyreeford-Public/Video/Ty’s%20Boom.mov

>put the mic where it sounds good! 🙂

Regards,

Ty Ford

Any thoughts on ideal positioning of same would be great as well”

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