Can I use ipod for mic

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I don't see why not.

It's not the optimal way to get good audio, but who among us
is working with all the top of the line equipment we wish we had?

I think you should give it a try and post the results here. We can
all learn from your experiment.

BTY - welcome to indietalk, raybo.
 
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The ipod is just a hard drive with music software, but you can't add software for recording, you can only use the voice recorder option, which is not made for quality recordings.
 
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If the interviews you are doing are all in a studio or room, you could hook a mic up to a laptop and record like a regular podcast using podcast software, or Audacity, or something similar.

Sony MiniDiscs used to be popular at one point, for recording audio on - never used one myself, and never saw a model with a digital connection either.

Regardless of how you do it, it's going to suck a lot when it's time to edit. You'll have to manually sync up the audio to the video. If you edit the video (to get rid of umms & errs), you'll need to do the same for the audio - not so bad if both video & audio have been running continuously, but realistically you'll be stopping & starting video & audio many times (and neither at exactly the same frame)
 
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hi raybo

the problem you are going to have..no matter what recorder you use will be sync...i am guessing your camera does not have and form of Time-code..(guesing this because it doesnt have a mic input)...so even if you used a timecode recorder, there would be no timebase to keep things in sync...this will always be a problem to double system filming in the low end with no time-code...

at best you will have to use a slate and slate each time you start your camera and sound...and then you will have to sync these takes in your computer after loading in all your media...

the sound will drift out of sync after a shot time...you will have to edit it and pull it (up)or(down) to keep sync...if you are lucky..it wont drift too much...also you will have the audio that was recorded by the camera as a guide to help you...think of it as guide track....

once you have synced your footage you can go about cutting it as you would if it were recorded in the camera...

this is done for all major films...only the sound uses timecode to match camera and there is no drift...

and using a seperate sound recorder, it will most likely be better sound..as i have yet to see a digital camera that can record sound with any real quality...something that RED is starting to learn from talking to us sound people...and we always tell them...STAY OUT OF THE SOUND BUSINESS...work on your picture....

hope this is of some help to you...
 
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You don't need sync sound but you do need a constant speed recorder for the audio and the video. When both are recorded at a constant speed they can be synced in post easily. If the audio is longer or shorter it is just compressed or stretched to match the video without any noticeable difference in speed. If you do not use constant speed, you have ebb and flow, and then you can't do that. Constant speed recorders are such things as DAT, etc.
 
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hi Indie

yes that is true...but at what constant speed is what i was getting at...a Dat..if it has timecode to match camera...IE...if camera is shooting at 29.97 of 23.97 and the Dat or other device is 30NDF...sync will be lost...which is why most Pro Gear will have a build in TC Generator that can do multiple time codes to match camera speed...they both need to be within the same time frame...

For instance...if shooting film at 24FPS and end format will be film...i need to record sound at 30FPS ND...and if the same shoot is for TV...i need to record at 29.97 ND with a 1% Pullup...

Most small Micro films use 23.97ND Timecode for thier camera..for this i would have to use the same Timecode for it to sync later...

and always use a slate!!!! and keep camera reports and sound reports...i cant say enough about that to help the editor later....

be well
 
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raybo, use a dat or solid state recorder would be better (tapeless) to record the audio and make sure that the recorder records in the frame rate that you will be filming in. A dat or solid state rental should be a very minimal cost.

Best of luck with the interview and if you think of it, post the method that you chose and the results that you had.

Thanks
 
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raybo, use a dat or solid state recorder would be better (tapeless) to record the audio and make sure that the recorder records in the frame rate that you will be filming in. A dat or solid state rental should be a very minimal cost.
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solid state??? how about Hi Fedelity..haha...just kidding

i think what Shunter is trying to say is a Flash Card recorder or Hard Drive recorder...

but in the end...it doesnt matter what you record onto...frame rates will have to match in order to keep sync...

he is another example for you..i will try to keep it simple:
camera is running at 23.97ND...this means that 23.976 feilds of picture (or frames if you wish) go by every second.
if you sound is at 30ND...there are 30 frames going by a sec.

it would look like this in post:
Camera -----------------------one sec of fields
Sound ------------------------------one sec of fields

if you compress the audio to match picture in the same time line...lip sync will be off...

this is why we need to record things in the same time line...the numbers need to match up

hope this helps a little
 
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