Posted by peter on 09/25/07 15:27

"Percival P. Cassidy" <nobody@notmyISP.net> wrote in message
news:O4RIi.31$NW5.20@newsfe02.lga...
>I am trying to help a non-profit find a way of producing better training
>videos. They have a Sony DCR-DVD403 camcorder (already a bad choice, IMO,
>because it has to be used in the lowest video-quality mode to record an
>hour-long session without changing discs), and the built-in microphone
>picks up far too much extraneous noise. It has no microphone input
>connector other than via the Active Interface Shoe (AIS).


Before buying any mic, if you can turn off the AGC (automatic gain control)
of the built-in mic and use manual gain control, it would reduce the ambient
noise during the non-talking portions.

The closer the mic to the sound source, the lower ambient noise you pick up.

How about a wired lavalier mic on the subject and record it with whatever
means you can (via an amp into a computer, Mp3 player, etc).

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