Shoot tomorrow. Video rocky is here. How about sound.

[dainova]

Hi,all

I hope that your artistic compassion to new guys will help me to prepare for tomorrow shooting, my wife hired me to video/audio her conference, so I have 1 day to prepare at my best:
This is Hayatt conference event, indoor with normal lights, house speakers, they have wireless microphone Senhhreiser WE-100, some mixing board in the corner.
Scene in the center with slides, probably it’s not a problem with video setup, I don’t need to move around, will put camera on tripod like 5m from scene and that’s it. (?)

Audio is my concern, I just google it and see how important it in this type of video, so I’m preparing to take audio from mixer that have XLR output and put into my super
Canon Vixia HF M31 that have external Mic input. I can adjust Mic level accordingly on that camera.

That what is my plan !

I appreciate if you can share your opinion, as I have some doubts like:
· Is MIC input will work in the same fashion with feed from mixer?
· Can I use 30’ cable for that (with XLR – 3.5 adapter), that long is OK or could be distortion
· I think to use SP mode (DVD quality as it said), as later plan to put it on DVD/CD. Don’t plan any HD distribution. Though I heard that now everybody do master copy on HD. I have 32G on my camera and SP should be OK for the whole day, that will help me a lot.
· As a bkup I also can think to use one transmitter and 2 receivers on the same Frequency for MIC, one of which I put on my camera, do you think it could work? Hotel engineer said that he might found 2 receivers for me.



Will appreciate your help. Thanks to all.
Now I truly understand how hard is Spilberg’s job.

Peace

Vic

[JohnnyMalaria]

Seems like a good enough plan. Make sure you get to test the audio levels beforehand.

If you can get hold of the presentation material in electronic format (e.g., Powerpoint) then consider inserting that into the video afterwards.

[aedipuss]

xlr mics can be balanced(powered). 3.5 into the cam is not. might not work. you could need amp/converter like a beachtek unit. or use a separate recording device as audio backup like a zoom hn4 hooked into the mixer.

i'd get some high speed high capacity sd cards and shoot in one of the 1920x1080 modes. that cam is avchd and you will lose quality converting it to mpeg-2 for dvd. i'd try for at least 15mbps, 25mbps would be better.

[edDV]

The camcorder mic will produce the normal amateur hollow echo.

XLR (mic level) to consumer camcorder ext mic jacks require a transformer to match impedance and dc levels. Beachtek is good. Beachtek will take mic or line level. Another option (mic level) is a Shure A96F matching traansformer per channel. Stereo requires a dual mono to stereo mini-jack cable or adapter. Use headphones to verify audio.



http://store.shure.com/store/shure/en_US/pd/productID.104215400
http://www.beachtek.com/
http://www.beachtek.com/dxa2t.html

[dainova]

Thanks to all, guys.
I don't have a place to retreat, will check with www.gassers.com for those matching transformers to rent.

[edDV]

Thanks to all, guys.
I don't have a place to retreat, will check with www.gassers.com for those matching transformers to rent.

I bet they rent a Beachtek or similar. Just what you need.