Getting high quality audio often means recording your audio on a separate device to your camera. If you use this method for getting high quality audio for your films, podcast or how-to-video it will be much better received by your audience. Bad sounding audio is a big reason for videos to be given the thumbs down on YouTube. So, you will have lots of audio files if you do … [Read more...]
Video Soundtracks on a Budget – Blog Series Roundup
Are you new to creating videos? Having trouble with audio clarity, background noise or loudness? If so, you will find this 9 part series invaluable for learning the basics of creating great video soundtracks. Part 1 - Introduction When clients use one of our audio services for their video production, whether that be a voice over, royalty free music or sound effects, it is … [Read more...]
Video Soundtracks on a Budget – Part 9: Listen to the difference
To demonstrate the techniques covered in this blog series Russ of naturetalksandwalks has let me use some of his footage. This video production has been created on a budget with the following equipment. Two low cost video cameras Two tripods Zoom digital recorder – as covered in Part 4: Recording Devices Clip-on mic – covered in Part 2: Lapel … [Read more...]
Video Soundtracks on a Budget – Part 3: Recording Video Dialogue
Before you can start to edit your audio you must capture it. This is done using microphones, which is an obvious statement to make, but, the less obvious fact is that there are several types of microphone and numerous ways of using them depending on the result you are after. Placement and environment is a very important part of getting a good soundtrack and is not to be … [Read more...]
Video Soundtracks on a Budget – Part 1
When clients use one of our services for their video production, whether that be a voice over, royalty free music or sound effects, it is often easy to assume that the audio production side will be handled by them or their audio / video department. However, not every video producer has experience with audio or has a boom operator / sound recordist on their team. Quite often, … [Read more...]