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Video tape speech with audio mixer

Mar 22, 2006 8:38PM PST

I am preparing to video tape a live speech on my Sony TRV18E.

My plan is to try to get a better sound quality from a audio mixer (Behringer), and since I haven't done that before and have no accessories at all at the moment. So, I conducted a few experiments to find out how to achieve the desirable outcome with the limited accessories:

1) connect Computer sound card OUT to camcorder's mic IN and press record (not dubbing) button

2) connect TV audio OUT to camcorder's mic IN and press record.

Unfortunately, the sound quality from both recordings sounded worse than built-in mic!!

Any suggestion on what should I do to improve the sound quality?

Thanks very much.

Chwan Keng

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You're connecting a line level signal to a microphone input
Mar 23, 2006 2:03PM PST

which overloads the microphone circuitry. If the camera has an audio input jack, use that instead of the mic connection.

Of course, there's always the question of why bother? You can capture the video with your computer, and merge it with the audio that's already recorded by the computer. That gives you a video with sound which may be used to play on the computer, burn a DVD, or write out via the camera to a tape.

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How to merge Audio and Video
Mar 25, 2006 4:07PM PST

Thanks, that make sense (to merge audio and video at the later stage), could you give some pointers as to how to accomplish that.
Thanks again.

Chwan Keng

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It's essentially a three step process after you have the
Mar 26, 2006 6:13AM PST

video and/or photos on the computer via a capture process.

1. Put the audio on the computer. The easiest way to do this is with a microphone, and an audio editor. There are many freebies that do this. If you are on Windows, the audio editor should probably create a WAV file.

2. Import both the video and the audio into a video editor. Build the time line using the video. Place the audio on the time line so that it matches as desired with the video. You can also import and place photos on the timeline.

3. Render the timeline to produce a video file that includes all of the desired elements.

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Thanks
Jun 12, 2006 6:52PM PDT

Thanks very much, Kiddpeat. Just for your info, my "project" fell thru. Nevertheless, I will give the method you shown a try.
Thanks again.

p/s sorry for late reply

Chwan Keng