Now this is where I have many questions, about the technical stuff, you see, I'm really new at this stuff, I usualy film a movie with just a camcorder so that the sound and picture get recorded at the same time(and it's non-digital and I dont have any software to edit it), but one of my questions is this: I know that with professional films you record the sound separate from the picture and then later combine them, but I want to know how this is done, do you put the sound and picture on a computer and use software to combine them and match them up? If not, could you please explain the process to me.
that depends on how you plan on recording the sound.
the most popular cheap way right now is to get a good microphone (300-500 bucks to buy, maybe 5-25 dollars per day to rent) and hook it up to a minidisc player. record sound onto the minidisc player while you're filming.
now, when you're editing, using premier/fcp/pinnacle, whatever... etc. line up the audio from the minidisc player with the visuals. the thing about minidisc players is that for copyright reasons, minidisc players do not let you take off the sound via USB. you would have to do it in 'analogue' by running a male to male wire from the headphones port into the input of your soundcard.
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If you record sound separately, you'll also need something which allows you to set a sync point. The clapper board is the most common solution here (as you can match the clap sound in your audio file up to the image of the closed clapper in your video file).
Just make sure you are very meticulous about logging each shot and the corresponding sound take.
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Well that wasn't so complicated after all, thanks for the help , I really apreciate it.
You're talking about "double-system" sound. This is a necessity with film, because film cameras only record an image, and no sound.
If you're using an analog camcorder you'll have to be careful of drifting frame rates--I had a lot of trouble with this before I switched to DV.
Whether you want to do this also depends on what medium you're aiming for: if you're just going to dub to a VHS tape, there's probably no need. Remember that having a separate sound recorder will severely reduce your mobility.
I'm generally a proponent of plugging an external microphone into the camera--this way you don't need to slate your takes and your setup is a lot quicker.
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I agree with the above post. Using a camcorder for your shoot, your best bet is to find an external mic and record that way. You're almost always going to get out-of-sync video because with camcorders (assuming you're using an NTSC camera) a frame is dropped about every two minutes, so if you can, it's best to keep all sound in camera.
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