If it is all about the sound, then you really want either:
1) A camcorder that has manual audio control & a mic jack
or
2) Any camcorder AND an audio field recorder. A piano can get loud enough to cause a camcorder’s auto mic gain control to overload. The resulting audio clips when recorded to whatever storage media the camcorder uses & will sound bad – under extreme conditions, the clipping will get so bad that the audio just sounds muddy. Neither can be fixed. Most field recorders (like those from Zoom, Edirol, M-Audio, Marantz & others) have manual audio control. When you edit the video, just replace the video’s audio with that which was captured by the field recorder.
To the best of my knowledge, the least expensive camcorders with manual audio control & a mic jack are the Canon HV20 & Sony HDR-HC9. They are a lot more expensive than a Flip Ultra. Sorry.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
If it is all about the sound, then you really want either:
1) A camcorder that has manual audio control & a mic jack
or
2) Any camcorder AND an audio field recorder. A piano can get loud enough to cause a camcorder’s auto mic gain control to overload. The resulting audio clips when recorded to whatever storage media the camcorder uses & will sound bad – under extreme conditions, the clipping will get so bad that the audio just sounds muddy. Neither can be fixed. Most field recorders (like those from Zoom, Edirol, M-Audio, Marantz & others) have manual audio control. When you edit the video, just replace the video’s audio with that which was captured by the field recorder.
To the best of my knowledge, the least expensive camcorders with manual audio control & a mic jack are the Canon HV20 & Sony HDR-HC9. They are a lot more expensive than a Flip Ultra. Sorry.
May 30th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
I definitely enjoyed reading through this write-up.Thanks.