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Sound In The Digital Age There is one fantastic thing about audio recording in the digital realm, it stays in synchronization automatically with other digital tools. In the old days you could put a tiny little Nagra tape recorder on your actors, but these things cost $4,000 each and rented for $200 a day. Today any MP3 recorder or digital dictation machine can possible serve the same purpose, especially if you can connect an external microphone to it to help improve the sound over that internal mic. What this means is that the wedding photographer can place one at the podium and capture the vows more up close and personal than with the camcorder mic 50 feet away of to the side or in the back of the church. It means if you’re shooting a scene with lots of actors each can have a little $30 digital dictation recorder in their pockets. This will isolate each speakers voice. The trick is you need to have the ability to connect this to a computer via a cord to offload it to your sound card as a wave file. It’s only a matter of using a clap stick before shooting complex scenes to have a reference point for lining up the tracks. If you’re into the music scene and have something like a Tascam DAT machine that track will stay in synch with your video with no need to time code. You just need to find the starting point. Playback of pre-recorded music from CD will also stay synched to your production. You use the camcorder mic to simply reference it and then replace that track with the finished music CD converted to wave file.
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