Brilliant work, Ian. I believe that I am going to get one of these cameras for knock-about work and "brainless videography" (a perfect fit for me!) Cheers, Russ
@iancraig
Күн бұрын
Thanks Russ. They’re definitely ‘fun’ cameras.
@moonchildmx
6 ай бұрын
Sweet, nicely explained and the result sounds great. Thank you so much.
@iancraig
6 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@williamgorry694
7 ай бұрын
Great trick to separate the voice and ambient tracks. The video looks very good. Sony did great job at face focus.
@SouthernFryd
3 ай бұрын
Which camcorder has the best audio? Thinking of getting one to do band/gig videos. Don't want to buy a lot of outboard stuff, so looking for an all-in-one with good audio. Good video. Thanks.
@iancraig
3 ай бұрын
Actually, all Sonys tend to have nice audio. For band/gig audio, you’re going to need less sensitive mics because the sheer volume can’t be tamed easily by sensitive mics and you end up with distortion. Noise from camera preamps won’t be a problem. So choose a stereo mic with attenuation. You will most likely need to turn the camera input gain to its lowest setting. I use a Sennheiser mke440 but a cheaper option might be the Rode stereo mic. Both sound good. Be careful with the cheaper camcorders … no mic input or a mic input with no coldshoe. I use a more expensive ax53 which is superb for show recording. Portable and quick to use. For more serious stuff though, I use a mirrorless with a very open lens F1.4 for low light. Be careful of massive changes of stage lighting. It can dramatically change very quickly and ruin your footage!
@HarveyFreebird
2 жыл бұрын
I bought a cx405 how do I block the wind noise?
@iancraig
2 жыл бұрын
Make a fluffy with elastic straps to put in front of the mic covers on the camera? In post, cut bass. These cameras aren’t great in wind tbh. Try shading the mics with your hand.
@paullawrence8572
3 жыл бұрын
I think for a cheap camcorder Ian vision and sound was very good! 👌
@iancraig
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it’s not too bad Paul. Considering no ‘proper’ mic was used. I did the same with the Sony ZV-1 yesterday and tbh, it was that much better!
@jheaespares2981
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you this was very helpful!!!
@AydinHero
11 ай бұрын
Thank you Ian!
@iancraig
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching Aydin.
@lensmanonline
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Ian hope you are well, the in camera audio was okay, ideal for quick video without the faf of external Mic's etc. To be honest I never do anything to the audio, as I don't really know much about audio editing, I have experimented with a smartphone as an external recorder. Best wishes stay safe Jon.
@philiphunter3966
3 жыл бұрын
Impressive what you can do when you know what you are doing! Do you EQ your audio within your video editor? Thanks
@iancraig
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Philip. No. I rendered the audio track only on my editor. Then imported it into Audacity (Free and Excellent) Then I convert it to mono and do all kinds of tricks to tart the audio up. Fact is, if the frequencies I boost or whatever aren't there in the first place, EQ won't bring them back, but the fact is, the Sony does have the low end but at a lower volume!!! So it just needs a little boosting. The copying of a track and merging it with a really heavily noise edited track is a trick that I learned from Soundspeeds. It really does help in difficult situations and that's the thing with video, the audio part is so often a repair job when you've just grabbed a shot!! With audio editing, it's SO easy to overdo it and not realise until the next day, so I tend to make quite small adjustments most of the time.
@philiphunter3966
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks !
@lendavidhart9710
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ian! Appreciate you sharing your skills and experience, could i ask what computer app/program you use?
@iancraig
3 жыл бұрын
I used a really cheap package - Movavi to edit the video and the Excellent Audacity for audio. I always use the smallest editor needed because there really is no need for overblown editors for most stuff. A lot of people have posh, expensive editors and they barely touch what the editor does because they don’t need it in reality.
@chrisdunford2346
4 ай бұрын
I have no idea what EQ is. or what you did. Sorry, clear as mud
@iancraig
4 ай бұрын
Equalisation. For people who don’t know what equalisation is, tone. Treble Mids and bass control but equalisation has more frequencies to adjust, so bass is divided into smaller segments, as are the Mids and treble. So EQ is short for Equalisation which is a glorified tone control. Basically, I used noise reduction on my editor. Equalisation to change the tone. A strong noise gate on my editor to cut noise between silences. (A noise gate puts silence between every sentence) Added a very small amount of room sound, recorded separately to fill in silences made by the noise gate. (Sounds more natural with room sounds) If audio is really noisy, it can be really hard to remove the noise and retain the ‘naturalness’ of the sound. The editing in effect is too much for the sound that you want to hear. So I heavily edit the sound which damages the sound of my voice and then slowly bring up the original recording to ‘merge’ with the heavily edited version. You are left with the edited version being ‘filled’ in at a low level by the original version which makes it sound a bit more natural, with the noise down. It’s not really a thing for someone not knowing how to edit in all honesty. I wrote the steps and order of what I did in little numbered boxes at the bottom of the video. If you don’t know what the terms mean, if you want to edit audio in the future, you will need to know them. EQ or equalisation NR or Noise Reduction Noise Gate Ambience Terms commonly used in audio. There’s a bit more mud for you.
@TheVirakahScale
2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever noticed hearding the Lens Focusing in the Mic feed? I get a lot of weird zm zm zm sounds. I'm assuming it's the Auto-Focus?
@iancraig
2 жыл бұрын
One of them, I hear the zoom I think, but not been aware of autofocus. Probably because I don’t move the camera around a lot most of the time.
@TheVirakahScale
2 жыл бұрын
@@iancraig That's fair. I move around a lot when I talk, and I do art videos so there's always a traveling focal point.
@iancraig
2 жыл бұрын
Only way to get rid of it is to use a separate recorder like Zoom h1n and sync in post. Outside, you wouldn’t hear it, but in a quiet environment there’s nothing you can do. Many cameras do this if you use autofocus. You could also try closing the aperture down for bigger depth of field and fixing the focus on a mid point.
@TheVirakahScale
2 жыл бұрын
@@iancraig Yeah, I've got me a Lav Mic I use with my phone when I need to talk to camera. otherwise I V-O with my condenser.
@wildwoodtop
2 жыл бұрын
what type of factory internal microphone is your camera equipped with, omnidirectional?
@iancraig
2 жыл бұрын
You know, I’m not sure what it is! It is described as a built in ‘zoom’ mic whatever that is ….. www.sony.co.uk/electronics/handycam-camcorders/hdr-cx405/specifications
@pancreasnou
2 жыл бұрын
I don't understand. If this video was recorded with the 405, and it only supports 1080p, how can the video be in 4k? Sorry for the stupid question.
@iancraig
2 жыл бұрын
It was shot in 1080p but rendered in 4k for KZitem.
@pancreasnou
2 жыл бұрын
@@iancraig Thanks, didn't know this was possible. Do you think the cx405 is better than the Panasonic v180k? Don't know which one to buy. Thanks
@iancraig
2 жыл бұрын
I don’t really know pancreasnou. Never used Panasonics. By uploading at 4k KZitem does a better job at compression.
@pancreasnou
2 жыл бұрын
@@iancraig Ok, thank you
@TheBrettMizer
Жыл бұрын
What about recording audio from an external device and Edit the audio with the video in an app.
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