[MacDV] Suggestions for sound capture at wedding

[ibenz at mac.com]

If you have the facility I would suggest using a Minidisc recorder 
secreted somewhere close to where the bride and groom will be standing. 
Then import the sound into imovie and match the sound and pictures. 
This way you won't have to have the camera up close at all to have a 
quality soundtrack.

On Thursday, Apr 10, 2003, at 14:41 Europe/London, Adrian Smith wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I'm going to take some video at my sister's wedding in a few days and 
> I'm looking for suggestions on how best to improve the audio side of 
> things. I've taken video at a couple of weddings (my brother's and a 
> friends) and everyone has been very happy with it (not professional or 
> anything but still very watchable). However, I've been quite 
> disappointed with the quality for the audio - particularly during the 
> ceremony.
>
> This time I've borrowed another miniDV camera to go along with my 
> MV20i (another single chip model unfortunately but we don't know 
> anyone with a 3 CCD model). I'm able to get a sound feed from the 
> auditorium sound system (which is very good quality) but I'm wondering 
> what is the best way to make use of it?
>
> I could patch it directly into one of the camcorders as the main audio 
> track. The problem is that this restricts that camera to being quite 
> close to the sound board which is an OK but not ideal vantage point. 
> Alternatively I could capture it directly to the hard disk of a Mac. 
> To do that I could use either a Powerbook (firewire) or even an old 
> 8600 (which has RCA jacks for sound in).
>
> If I were to capture directly to disk what would be a suitable program 
> to use? (could I just capture directly into the iMovie? What problems 
> does that have? (is it reliable?)).  Would using the 8600 with the RCA 
> jack (compared to the mini-jack on the powerbook) make a noticeable 
> difference? (of course the Powerbook is more convenient!). Any tips of 
> sound rates, settings etc would be very helpful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Adrian Smith
>
> PS My Dad bought a copy of FCP3 a few months ago (edu discount) which 
> he hasn't played with yet. Does that give us any more options.
>
>
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