How to Buy an External Microphone for a Camcorder

http://buycamcorder.org - Secure order online best priced camcorders. Buy camcorder online. - How to Buy an External Microphone for a Camcorder "Hi, I'm Christopher Rokosz, actor, director, producer. And I'm going to give you some of my advice on how to buy an external microphone for your camcorder. Well, they say that video is two thirds audio, and they're right. What that means is you could have a beautiful HD picture, but if your sound sounds horrible, your product is going to sound horrible. And my advice has been--and I've been teaching how to do video production for years--is never use the microphone on your camera. Never use the microphone on your camera unless you're videotaping grandma's birthday. And this particular camera over here, its microphone is first class, but it's a first class omni-directional microphone that picks up just about everything very well. It's stereo, it's a great mic, but you're going to have a very hollow sound. Its job is to be mounted to the cameras and pick up everything. People breathing in the next room, cars going by, it's not a great one if you're trying to do production. And if you're looking to buy an external, that's probably it. The other thing is, you've got to decide what kind of camera you have, and what kind of mics can go into it. Because some cameras like the smaller Sony's, you can only buy a microphone that fits through them. They'll say they'll have a microphone input, but it can only get through their custom hot shoe here, and the hot shoe is the place on top that microphones usually attach to. Now, your major kinds of microphones for cameras are going to be your omni-directional like this, omni meaning everything--it's going to pick up in front of it, to the sides of it, even a little bit around to the back of it almost--not right in back of it. But it's going to pick up everything. Or, like this microphone, shotgun, is very uni-directional, meaning that you point it at something, that's the sound it's picking up, and it leaves all the other sounds ...