Audio is as Important as Video
If you’re at all serious about your video projects, you need to get serious about audio too. This is so important that I’ll be covering this topic on a regular basis.
Today we’ll just go over the basics.
Let’s start with your camcorder’s built-in mic. Chances are, it sucks. The built-in mics pick up too much ambient noise. The sounds you WANT recorded, end up getting lost in the mix. Built-in mics are notorious for picking up the mechanical noises of the camera and can’t be directed at the sound source you’re really interested in recording.
Built-in mics are also typically of low quality. They are very small, and are limited in the frequencies they can record accurately.
There are a variety of microphones designed for video work, and in future posts, I’ll describe them and how they’re used.
