{"id":216,"date":"2007-11-19T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.videoproductiontips.com\/2007\/11\/19\/video-camcorder-basics-part-7\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T02:24:04","slug":"video-camcorder-basics-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.videoproductiontips.com\/video-camcorder-basics-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Camera Features for Getting Awesome Audio with your Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
The home theater experience has spoiled lots of folks with high quality audio. Isn’t it fantastic to sit in your house blasting out the movie and enjoy theater-quality sound? Meets my definition of a good time.<\/p>\n
Hollywood does an awesome job with home movie audio. Rent any DVD and blow your ears out. But what about your own personal home movies?<\/p>\n
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Can your birthday party video impress them with quality audio?<\/p>\n
Yup!<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s no longer good enough to have home movies with garbled audio. With today’s marvelous camcorders, there’s no reason to.<\/p>\n Here are three features to look for if you need to get high quality audio with your video<\/strong><\/em>. If you read my blog regularly, you know that I firmly believe that 90% of viewers won’t bother watching a video with crummy sound. Crummy video doesn’t bother them so much, and you can get away with it.<\/p>\n 1. \u00a0Microphone Jack\/ Headphone Jack<\/strong> Quality audio for video production sometimes requires a better microphone than what comes built onto most camcorders. But in order to use a supplemental mic, you need a camera that has a microphone jack where you can plug it in.<\/p>\n