Posted by Ty Ford on 09/16/05 13:33

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:37:00 -0400, bd wrote
(in article <1126838220.046030.126100@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> Does anyone have any input for the Sony HDR-FX1 considering it doesn't
> have XLR inputs? Given this, what do you do for great audio?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryce
>

Well first, the audio on both all HDV cams is not linear pcm, it's 384 kbps
stereo MPEG 2. That's about 25% of the data of a linear stream.

For truly great audio, you'd want to double record.

Ty Ford




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