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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/
Are you excited about the new Apple iPad? Will you be getting one as soon as they're available?
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I must say that if I was a book reader I would definitely pay the extra cash for this device over the Kindle. But, I am surprised at the amount of "disappointment" the new iPad has caused all over internet forums from the geek community.
As far as the price goes, I must say that that's a thing the iPad has going for itself. I was expecting something starting at $700.00 and up.
Are you going to stand in line to get one?
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I am definitely going to get one. I like iBook and iWork features and I also love that it can be connected to digital camera directly and import pictures.I am sure it will have some breathtaking photo editing apps.
My only concern is how would i save the document that I create on iPad and how will i be able to download the email attachment. But I am sure these things must have been taken care of.
There are disappointment because of the hype created by rumors. I remember when in 2007 iPhone was launched, it lacked very common feature like video camera, MMS, copy/paste and atleast a 3 MP camera. But regardless, it sold incredibly well because whatever it did, did amazingly.
Apple is not liked for its feature its admired for its ease of use and thats why Apple is loved only by people who use its products. People who don't use never like Apple because their mind cant see beyond features they cant think of performance.
Many people just see the commercial that iPhone cant do multi tasking and then start bragging about it but the fact is iPhone does multi tasking to a very large extent. For example you can listen to FLYCAST radio and creat a word document at the same time. You can run Voice Recording with other apps. You can run iPod with many other apps.
If you are chatting on Ping and get a message on Yahoo Messenger, you are immediately notified. Push notification is way better than running many apps at the same time. If you are FaceBook and an important news breaks, you are notified.
I am sure even with not so good initial response, iPad will rock just like iPhone did.
I am definitely going to get one. I like iBook and iWork features and I also love that it can be connected to digital camera directly and import pictures.I am sure it will have some breathtaking photo editing apps.
My only concern is how would i save the document that I create on iPad and how will i be able to download the email attachment. But I am sure these things must have been taken care of.
There are disappointment because of the hype created by rumors. I remember when in 2007 iPhone was launched, it lacked very common feature like video camera, MMS, copy/paste and atleast a 3 MP camera. But regardless, it sold incredibly well because whatever it did, did amazingly.
Apple is not liked for its feature its admired for its ease of use and thats why Apple is loved only by people who use its products. People who don't use never like Apple because their mind cant see beyond features they cant think of performance.
Many people just see the commercial that iPhone cant do multi tasking and then start bragging about it but the fact is iPhone does multi tasking to a very large extent. For example you can listen to FLYCAST radio and creat a word document at the same time. You can run Voice Recording with other apps. You can run iPod with many other apps.
If you are chatting on Ping and get a message on Yahoo Messenger, you are immediately notified. Push notification is way better than running many apps at the same time. If you are FaceBook and an important news breaks, you are notified.
I am sure even with not so good initial response, iPad will rock just like iPhone did.
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