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Posted by TheFlaggman on 01/14/08 21:11
On Jan 14, 3:35 pm, "sam...@gmail.com" <sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We're filming craziness next week and I have a situation. I have
> several simultaneous shoots and one is going to swallow most of my
> mics for the second. So I have to record a few five person panel
> discussion with four XLR inputs (shooting on DVX100s), no mixer. I
> have a very small budget (like under 200), and I want to know what
> the best option is:
>
> 1) Hang a cheap shotgun like the azden sgm1x (which we already have)
> on a C-stand above them, and use two lavs for two of the speakers, or
>
> 2) get 4 of the cheapest shures we can afford and put them between
> each of the four speakers,
>
> 3) something else we aren't thinking of.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sam
Not sure what your NLE software package is but if it is a multi audio
track capable one ( including a music track that you could use for
audio) why not borrow a couple of cheapie camcorders with stereo AV
input jacks and feed three mics into separate stereo track inputs of
the camcorders and the two most frequent speakers' audio into the two
channels of the Panasonic audio inputs.
Capture all the camera information through your firewire etc input and
then just use the audio tracks from the camcorders to add to the extra
additional audio tracks to the two main tracks created by the capture
of the master Panasonic camera capture file. You will likely have to
work a bit harder syncing lips and audio words, but with patience it
should do what you want. Just means extra work, but that is the price
one has to pay when an audio board is beyond the budget.
A freeware audio editor is available to do all the audio editing then
export it as a combined single mp3 or wav file to use in the final
video edit rendering. The program is called "Audacity" and the
download site usually readily appears on a google search for it's
name. Again the problem with this is just syncing the lips in the
video to the actual words in the audio in real time before rendering
it. I usually use something like a bright flash or single frame color
burst coincident with a coincident tone burst as a basic alignment
reference outside of the actual program material, then just fine tune
frame matches for lip syncs.
Good Luck
The C0l0nel
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