The other day (since I'm known around here as the photographer) I was
asked if I'd make a video of the "St. Patrick's Day Dance" at the park.
I've never made a video in my life (except by accident on my pocket
camera by pressing the wrong button) and I've never pressed the movie
button (even by accident) on the E-M5. My first thought when I was
asked was to think about the very likely low lighting level in the hall.
I had no idea how the E-M5 would do video in low light and didn't want
to do a public experiment as my first try... so I politely refused. I
hadn't even gotten around to thinking about audio. All that's below
(that I barely understand at all) tells me that I made the right
decision. :-)
Chuck (still photo, video and audio impaired) Norcutt
On 3/15/2013 12:55 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Lightworks for your computer takes care of the editing process. Sync is
> easy. I have Slate/Clapper apps on my ipad and cellphone. Record the real
> audio on your multitrack and import the audio into Lightworks. Align the
> slate and lock the tracks together. Extremely easy.
>
> As Lightworks has multitrack audio built in, but no ability to sync, you
> could stripe a channel with smpte and let the external audio editor chase
> sync. My AW4416 has only MTC, so I have to double hop through a sequencer
> that can chase smpte and generates MTC. I use to have a smpte/mtc converter
> box but that was years ago. The double-hop is a bit of a pain and MTC takes
> a couple seconds before it locks on and the slave units get on with it. I'm
> not too opposed to my setup, though, because I can add a bunch of stuff to
> the mix through midi.
>
> SMPTE is dead! Long live SMPTE!
>
>
> On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Paul Braun wrote:
>
>> The E-M5 does a remarkable job with HD video. I shot a series of promo
>> videos after the last conert at the theatre - I had the artist perform
>> two of his songs after everyone left, and I video'd them ("videotaped"
>> doesn't really work any more....)
>>
>> The problem is, the built-in mics pick up a lot of room echo. I plan on
>> getting the external mics, but I'm still thinking that in a situation
>> with a PA system, they're still going to pick up a lot of room ambience.
>>
>> Anyone here who's really audio-savvy, and by that I'm pretty much
>> referring to Ken, are you aware of any way to feed line-level audio into
>> the camera? I assume that if I just put a stereo feed into the 1/8"
>> jack on the external adapter that it has no way of scaling itself to
>> line levels instead of mic levels.
>>
>> I can't think of any way to add a smpte stripe to the video... I guess I
>> could just try to mix down the audio from the mixer multitrack and then
>> try to line it all up in something like Final Cut (something lighter and
>> cheaper than that, preferably).
>>
>> My main goal is to create a performance video for my artists that I can
>> use for promotion and they can share with their fans.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Braun
>> Certified Music Junkie
>> Valparaiso, IN
>>
>>
>> "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." - David St. Hubbins
>>
>> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Harlan Howard
>>
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