Video camera good for recording Audio

[paulmpianist]

I have a Panasonic PV GS150. Nice little camera. Nice video. Great color and good lens. When you make your audio seperately...say like for a music video no problem. but when you want to record the performance and use the camera to capture the audio. Well so far i have a lot of noise coming into the external mic i'm using.

 

anybody have any experience with this and a Hot Shoe mic? I really would like to be able to record directly from a professional breakout box (audio card) to the camera, but i can't get rid of the buzz. Used USB, DV always too much noise. I can record to tape however and then capture from the tape. But I would like to capture the audio without going to DV tape.

 

Maybe some could suggest another camera and setup that they have had success with. thanks

I really like the 3 CCDs in the panasonic. I want to stick wtih 3 CCDs for the color and clarity.

ok. thanks bye

[ggrussell]

You could record the audio separately with audio tape connected to the sound system. Capture that to the PC separately. Getting the video and separate audio synced is a bit tricky, but can be done with patience. Make a few loud noises at the beginning of both. You can then match up the native sound and captured sound that way. Then mute the native sound.

[paulmpianist]

You could record the audio separately with audio tape connected to the sound system. Capture that to the PC separately. Getting the video and separate audio synced is a bit tricky, but can be done with patience. Make a few loud noises at the beginning of both. You can then match up the native sound and captured sound that way. Then mute the native sound.

 

Thanks... I think that will have to become most of the system. I'm used to recording audio. I have a little studio here for that. I want to do music videos and some of it.. for instance if you have a lot of tracks recorded and you want to have the video of piano keys being played or a guitar riff... well it can't all be recored by video at once and i don't think there are cameras that are really top notch audio recoring gear.

 

I'll play with that idea of synching seperate recordings of audio and video.

thanks

 

 

p.s. wondering how that PC of yours does. I always have bought HP Pavillions off the shelf. Mine is a a350n 2.8 ghz, but I am thinking it is a little slow. It takes 3 mintutes to boot up sometimes. It runs the audio and video recording fine, but sometimes the audio from video playback quits (though other audio keeps going) and i have only found that booting it up again will solve the problem. There must be something else that I can check that will re-instated the audio from video clips.

 

thanks again

paul

[ggrussell]

Audio chip on motherboard or separate card? I haven't had any trouble with the Realtek chipset (ALC882) on my HP. I even have it configured as 7.1 surround sound. Nice! If I was serious about audio/music though, I would recommend the newer Sound Blaster XFi series. They support 24bit 96Khz recording and very low noise ratio. Unfortunately, a lot of software doesn't support 24bit sound files yet -- like EMC9. You can always record and mix in 24bit and then convert to 16bit as final output for use in video and burn to CDs. Sound Blaster cards come with tons of sound software.

 

As for my HP, it has been extremely stable despite all my tinkering.