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Lighting and Microphones for your Video Blogging. Blunty3000 gives some back with this series of hints and tips on Video Blogging. Big thanks to the folks at Sony for throwing me a couple of bloggie cams to give away 
Part 5 of 5. This time; hints and tips on Lighting and sound with secret tricks on mics and lights Video was recorded with the Sony Bloggie, so you can get a pretty good idea about how the camera is performing naively & unaltered, and even in low light and nighttime shoots this time. The raw files (mp4) were dumped right from the camera into FCP and was edited without needing any conversion or messing about.
LIGHTS & MICS - Tricks and Tips for Vlogging #5 - Blunty3000
October 4, 2010 By 25 Comments
I usually don't stay interested in videos this long but i watched this whole thing and it was quite informitive !
You're the best!
@Blunty3000 lol thanks
I always wondered what the furry thing on the mics where for.
Now I know.
Beautiful day in Australia.
Thank you for this video series. You should do some more tips in the future they are addicting.
lol@Blunty3000
Love the shirt (partial to dragons
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@Blunty3000 What video editing softwere would you recommend? At the moment I am using the cheap option of Windows Movie Maker but as much as I am aware it isn't possible to put more than one image/ video on at the same time.
Thanks for the help
Olmirz
@Blunty3000 i think i'll never touch a mic again :p
This is so helpful, Thank you for making this. Subscribed.
You know, that about the sound and wind, there is a way of taking care of that. I think I mentioned before that I tied a scarf around the mic, but that was thanks to that the cam went in where the mic was. I'm just thinking maybe you could test with scarfs or gloves in windy environments. Heh, you standing there with a glove in your hand and people go "Why's he holding a glove?" "Because there's a vloggycam inside."
blunty how exactly did you manage to get special interviews with people like malin ackerman, like whats your day job?
please kill my curiosity an answer would be much appreciated
When he says Globes, is he talking about Light bulbs?
This maybe a little out of your depth, but how would you suggest i go about getting decent sound from playing acoustic guitar and singing without going to the length of getting a professional condenser mic?
Thanks Blunty, great tips!
I responded to the previous video with this suggestion, but if you can manually adjust your white balance set it to a white piece of paper. I always keep a piece of paper in my camera bag for this reason.
The white balance thing was really helpful--thanks!
you're a good teacher!
theres another way to get good quality for people who dont know how to edit you can put a micraphone plugged in to an amp under the the camera pointing up towards it then just turn up the amp its a little simpler! you should test it out
hey Blunty, how are you doing?
If you wanna a different way to solve the mic issue you can go for the Kodak ZI8. I use that for my videos and it comes with a external mic jack and you can get really nice sound no matter how far away you are from the camera.
Cheers
I don't know if you're going to answer this, since this is an old video... but, do you have tip to how to sync excternal microphone sound with video, when you cut your videos? If you watch my introduction on my channel, I hold one, but chose not to use it, because it seemed to hard to sync.
@FilipStumpy Use an obvious, clear, sharp sound to find the same point on both audio tracks to sync them up... this is one of the reasons why you see the "clapper board" used by professionals. the sound (and image of the clapper closing) make it easier to find the same point on multiple sources.
I often just clap my hands for this purpose, one short sharp clap.
Hm... You said bonza. I've never heard that word in the states but I'm reading the book "A Town like Alice" which takes place (mostly) in Australia in the 40's and 50's and they say that word A LOT. I assumed that the word wasn't in use anymore. It's nice to learn these sort of things.
@ColonialHappy It's really not used often by "city blokes", You'll hear it rarely, but it still exists in the aussie vocabulary.
I've always liked the word.