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How do I get the camera into video recording mode?
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Whenever I have a question/problem such as yours, I read the user's guide
(aka "the manual").
It is amazing just how much I always learn from that.
If that doesn't help (or if I'm interested in a product I don't own), I check the manufacturer's website.
They have descriptions and specs for their gadgets, often have user forums, and the decent manufacturers all let you download the manuals in electronic form (so losing the book is no longer a problem).
Getting the PDF is also useful for those times where the printed book is rather small and useless - the PDFs often have more detailed information.
99% of the time reading the instructions does the trick.
Whenever I have a question/problem such as yours, I read the user's guide
(aka "the manual").
It is amazing just how much I always learn from that.
If that doesn't help (or if I'm interested in a product I don't own), I check the manufacturer's website.
They have descriptions and specs for their gadgets, often have user forums, and the decent manufacturers all let you download the manuals in electronic form (so losing the book is no longer a problem).
Getting the PDF is also useful for those times where the printed book is rather small and useless - the PDFs often have more detailed information.
99% of the time reading the instructions does the trick.
How can I enhance my camera's sound?
paperkey
Just want a good mic for my camera for a good price. I upload piano videos to Youtube, but the sound isn't good. I have Windows Movie Maker if that helps. A good answer would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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You don't say what sort of camera you have. I'm assuming it's a point & shoot digital camera since you're in this forum and p&s camera audio quality is normally pretty wretched.
Most P&S cameras have microphone and sample rate limitations which make audio sound bad. You need to record the audio on something better. Your computer can be set up to record audio if you use a microphone (Radio Shack has decent cheapo mics). Depending on your computer's sound circuitry, you may need an external preamplifier between the mic and the computer audio input or an external USB audio gadget to get rid of electrical noise generated by your computer.
You can use Audacity as your sound editor which will enable you to record your music to your computer. Audacity is free and works quite well.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
In Movie Maker, get rid of the crappy sound track from your camera's video and use the sound track that you recorded to your computer. Align the new sound track with your video. You can align the audio track laying in the new audio track and align it with the camera's audio track until the echo is gone. Then, mute the camera audio track and render your video making sure that you select a decent audio quality for the render process.
Better yet, if you have a DV camcorder, use that. Camcorder audio quality is generally pretty good.
BTW, the audio on youtube is sub-par. Youtube will take audio and resample it to a low bit rate. Don't expect something wonderful out of youtube. If you're trying to wow someone, put up your video on your own web site with properly encoded audio bit rate (44.1 kHz sample rate, 192kb/s or greater bit rate). I prefer using Flash .flv format for on-line videos as it is well supported by most browsers. Any other video format is a compatibility nightmare for on-line viewing. Riva can convert your video project to a Flash video. There are a few Flash player options for your web site. JW Media Player or FlowPlayer. I prefer JW player as FlowPlayer has gotten too complicated.
http://rivavx.com/?encoder
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
http://flowplayer.org/
You don't say what sort of camera you have. I'm assuming it's a point & shoot digital camera since you're in this forum and p&s camera audio quality is normally pretty wretched.
Most P&S cameras have microphone and sample rate limitations which make audio sound bad. You need to record the audio on something better. Your computer can be set up to record audio if you use a microphone (Radio Shack has decent cheapo mics). Depending on your computer's sound circuitry, you may need an external preamplifier between the mic and the computer audio input or an external USB audio gadget to get rid of electrical noise generated by your computer.
You can use Audacity as your sound editor which will enable you to record your music to your computer. Audacity is free and works quite well.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
In Movie Maker, get rid of the crappy sound track from your camera's video and use the sound track that you recorded to your computer. Align the new sound track with your video. You can align the audio track laying in the new audio track and align it with the camera's audio track until the echo is gone. Then, mute the camera audio track and render your video making sure that you select a decent audio quality for the render process.
Better yet, if you have a DV camcorder, use that. Camcorder audio quality is generally pretty good.
BTW, the audio on youtube is sub-par. Youtube will take audio and resample it to a low bit rate. Don't expect something wonderful out of youtube. If you're trying to wow someone, put up your video on your own web site with properly encoded audio bit rate (44.1 kHz sample rate, 192kb/s or greater bit rate). I prefer using Flash .flv format for on-line videos as it is well supported by most browsers. Any other video format is a compatibility nightmare for on-line viewing. Riva can convert your video project to a Flash video. There are a few Flash player options for your web site. JW Media Player or FlowPlayer. I prefer JW player as FlowPlayer has gotten too complicated.
http://rivavx.com/?encoder
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/
http://flowplayer.org/
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