Hello all,
I am a first time film maker, and obviously have a lot of questions. I am slowly gathering together equipment to shoot my short which I will hopefully finish writing soon. My question is this:
I have purchased a Sony DCR-TRV250 which is a digital 8 camera. The picture quality looks ok, but after purchasing it for a steal, I realized that there is no external mic input. So I need to get something else to record my sound on.
Looking around the site, many people have mentioned A minidisk recorder. I have looked into it, and they look ok. But I am wondering if other people have used it, and how easy it is to use? Was there any problems connecting up a microphone to it? Do you use it a lot?
I just don't want to repeat my mistake and go out and buy something which wont do what I want it to do. Which is give me the capability to record sound on set, with out a lot of hassel.
Thanks,
James Auld
Sony had some really good minidisc recorders out (not sure if they still do). Probably a good idea to find one with XLR input so you won't have a big adapter hanging off the 1/8" port. Those little ports will always, always develop weak connections in them within a few months. Avoid buying them whenever possible.
Good thing about using Minidisc to capture your sound is that it's easy to sync up the sound in editing (no time and speed issues). Ideally you can capture stereo sound with the camcorder, and the dialogue with the minidisc, and then merge them together in editing.
Anyone else do it a different way?
An even better (and more standard) audio recording device is DAT.
Record your audio on DAT - transfer to CD (for safety) and transfer to your hard drive.
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