Re: Decent Wireless Mic ~$200

(It's still me, Bill. I have been getting more spam as of late, and I think
those spam bots now look beyond the email address and try variations of the
name and organization, which is why I changed that info)

Thanks for the good idea. I was getting discouraged from the other messages
(though I greatly appreciate the kindness of people in relaying their
experiences) because I need to keep the cost down.

I have a few questions for you:

1. How much are DV tapes? The games often run over an hour, and I would
prefer that the camera person to change tapes at half time, thus not missing
any of the action.
2. Do tapes come in 45 min lengths? That may be about the perfect length
for a half of a game with timeouts.
3. Can you expand a little on how to synch the video and audio? I figure I
something like this:
a. Bring both video and audio into Adobe remeire elements, and put
them on the timeline.
b. Chop and "move" the audo stream as necessary to make things be
relatively in synch.
c. The tricky part is that I want to chop out all the huddles, etc,
and it may be hard to maintain the synch at that point.
But it sounds like you know a better way to syhnch the two.

Thanks,

Mac


"eunma" <ashoxx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1137577271.110086.125110@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Bill MacLean wrote:
>> P.S. I think a separate device for sound probably won't work. To
>> minimize
>> the editing burden and reduce the viewing time for the coaches, I had my
>> son's girlfriend pause the camera between plays. If I were pausing an MD
>> recorder, it wouldn't take long for my audio to be enough out of synch
>> with
>> the video to make editing a real pain in the keester.
>
> Bill,
>
> I think you can easily get by without a wireless - and still get good
> results. If you had to have the audio synched perfectly with the
> video, the situation would be different. But in your case, you just
> have to be within a second or so.
>
> How about this?
>
> Get a used 8mm digital or mini-DV camcorder w/ firewire I/O on ebay
> (you can get them very cheaply these days) along with a minidisc
> recorder. Total investment: easily within $300.
>
> Tell the person who is doing the videotaping to NOT stop the video once
> it starts recording - just let it run all the way through. And you do
> the same with the minidisc while recording the audio.
>
> Capture the video and audio to your harddrive, do a synch of the video
> and audio (should take 15 seconds or so), do your edits, set your
> chapter marks, encode the mpeg2, and burn a nice DVD. And making a
> separate disk for the coaches will also be very easy - the video is
> already set up on your harddrive - just another hour or so of editing
> and that's all that it will take. At 40 cents a disk and 6-7 minutes
> each to burn - you could make a pile of disks for practically nothing
> and offer them to other parents (all of whom I'm sure would be glad to
> throw $10 a disk your way for your efforts) and over the course of the
> season - that'll more than pay for the money you invested in the
> additional equipment.
>
> And since you're capturing the raw video to your harddrive - you could
> get really fancy and have one of the other parents videotape from the
> other side of the field (or better yet - from the press box) - there's
> got to be a few other "video-cam junkies" amongst the parents - and
> then mix the two shots together and really spif up your video
> productions. Maybe you could record the local radio broadcast and use
> that as a second audio source (assuming they'll let you). You can get
> very fancy with all of this - but still be able to do on the cheap.
>
> eunma
>


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