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Title: Microphone to camera
Post by: shyboy on January 27, 2020, 05:37:08 AM
Do anybody connect a Schoeps MK41 series to any video camera?

and if so, please could you share what camera could be better.

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: DavidPuddy on January 27, 2020, 01:04:20 PM
Your camera needs a mic input and your recorder needs a stereo output. Otherwise you'll have to do it in post.

I have a Vixia R700 and a Lumix ZS100. The Vixia has a mic in, the Lumix doesnt.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: shyboy on January 28, 2020, 04:22:49 AM
Thank you for your help

I´m looking for any decent Video camera with mic in and not too much expensive.

I will tape in Europe

Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: guitard on January 28, 2020, 10:23:12 AM
Just a word of caution about this ~~

If something goes wrong with the audio recording aspect of this (loose mic, etc.) -- you've got nothing for audio.  However, if you record the audio separately -- you'll have two recordings (the camera audio in the video file and the separate audio file).  Also note - a lot of cameras don't have an option to record in LPCM.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: beatkilla on January 28, 2020, 12:13:05 PM
Do anybody connect a Schoeps MK41 series to any video camera?

and if so, please could you share what camera could be better.

Thanks in advance

The Sony cx 550v has a mic input.

This is a 1920 x 1080 flash based camera.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: shpy on February 27, 2020, 08:27:07 AM
Thank you for your help

I´m looking for any decent Video camera with mic in and not too much expensive.

I will tape in Europe

i used to connect sound professional mics with attenuator cable to camera, camcorder. Most cameras has 3.5 input jack, but not all has manual settings for sound like manual gain control. I currently use FUJi X-T3 (connecting mics trough olympus ls-100 out conection) but preams in camera not so good. I think Canon has better preams, because its more for videography.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: willndmb on March 23, 2020, 07:44:36 PM
Thank you for your help

I´m looking for any decent Video camera with mic in and not too much expensive.

I will tape in Europe

i used to connect sound professional mics with attenuator cable to camera, camcorder. Most cameras has 3.5 input jack, but not all has manual settings for sound like manual gain control. I currently use FUJi X-T3 (connecting mics trough olympus ls-100 out conection) but preams in camera not so good. I think Canon has better preams, because its more for videography.
def would use an attenuator unless there is another way to adjust the signal coming in
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: nomotrouble on April 02, 2020, 02:58:41 PM
I got a tascam dr60d to record the audio and then send it into my videocamera. Works great. There was one time that the connection to the camera didn't complete, so that copy in the dr60d came in very handy. It's easy enough to align in post, i am usually making 2 or 3 different audio recordings for every show, and a sbd if possible into the dr60d.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: willndmb on May 12, 2020, 07:56:41 PM
I got a tascam dr60d to record the audio and then send it into my videocamera. Works great. There was one time that the connection to the camera didn't complete, so that copy in the dr60d came in very handy. It's easy enough to align in post, i am usually making 2 or 3 different audio recordings for every show, and a sbd if possible into the dr60d.
mine works great too.
Took a couple times to zero in the setting but with the recording as back up, dubbing was pretty easy
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: jerryfreak on May 12, 2020, 08:39:58 PM
schoeps CMR+ bat box would be a good match
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: LayanNolan on June 30, 2020, 12:13:04 PM

Do you think it is a better idea to invest in a good microphone first than in a good camera or better the other way around?
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: morst on July 01, 2020, 06:10:21 PM
Do you think it is a better idea to invest in a good microphone first than in a good camera or better the other way around?
While you are getting started, would it be more practical for you to have good video with adequate audio or vice versa?
Personally I wind up ignoring video, or watching it out of the corner of my eye while I do something else... Like right now, I've got this week's Dinner And A Movie playing...
But good audio lasts forever.
If the video looks great and sounds fair, I'll tune out even faster.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: Datfly on July 01, 2020, 11:03:56 PM

Do you think it is a better idea to invest in a good microphone first than in a good camera or better the other way around?
You can have stellar video but if it has crap sound people wont watch. However you can have average video with stellar sound people will watch!
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: edtyre on July 03, 2020, 07:10:24 AM
Just a word of caution about this ~~

If something goes wrong with the audio recording aspect of this (loose mic, etc.) -- you've got nothing for audio.  However, if you record the audio separately -- you'll have two recordings (the camera audio in the video file and the separate audio file).  Also note - a lot of cameras don't have an option to record in LPCM.

This exactly! If you want to synch in post get
PluralEyes or software that does it for you
really baby simple, don’t over complicate it!
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: IronFilm on July 10, 2020, 04:15:18 AM
Do anybody connect a Schoeps MK41 series to any video camera?

and if so, please could you share what camera could be better.

Thanks in advance

That wouldn't be an extremely unusual combo, as the MK41 is super popular in the film world, I'm sure someone somewhere has paired this with a video camera in a pinch as a scratch mic.

Just remember though, that one of the worst places you can mount a mic is on the camera itself!

As you want to get the mic in close, and on axis.
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: morst on July 11, 2020, 02:46:19 PM
Just remember though, that one of the worst places you can mount a mic is on the camera itself!
That does not seem obvious. What's the issue, mechanical noise from the lens focusing?
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: Teen Wolf Blitzer on July 13, 2020, 11:33:38 PM
This.  Why complicate it?  Just get plurrel eyes and run your rig and camera with shitty audio.  Replace and save.  :headphones:


Just a word of caution about this ~~

If something goes wrong with the audio recording aspect of this (loose mic, etc.) -- you've got nothing for audio.  However, if you record the audio separately -- you'll have two recordings (the camera audio in the video file and the separate audio file).  Also note - a lot of cameras don't have an option to record in LPCM.

This exactly! If you want to synch in post get
PluralEyes or software that does it for you
really baby simple, don’t over complicate it!
Title: Re: Microphone to camera
Post by: willndmb on September 29, 2020, 03:03:18 PM
This.  Why complicate it?  Just get plurrel eyes and run your rig and camera with shitty audio.  Replace and save.  :headphones:


Just a word of caution about this ~~

If something goes wrong with the audio recording aspect of this (loose mic, etc.) -- you've got nothing for audio.  However, if you record the audio separately -- you'll have two recordings (the camera audio in the video file and the separate audio file).  Also note - a lot of cameras don't have an option to record in LPCM.

This exactly! If you want to synch in post get
PluralEyes or software that does it for you
really baby simple, don’t over complicate it!
personally could never get plural eyes to work but that was back in fcp6 days
It was a complete  waste of time and money.
That said, although I almost always go line out > mic in live it does make sense to have them separate
I run two cams so that’s my backup