I currently have a Canon XL2 on the way from a vendor and since the camera has not come yet, I have two questions that I really need to get answered if possible.

First, is the stock mounted microphone attached with some kind of cord that plugs into an input on the camera, or is the cord hardwired to the camera?

Second, if I use the stock microphone and then the non-XLR microphone input, will they both record to two seperate audio tracks like it would if I used the two XLR inputs? Thanks for any help

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