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Using shotgun mics with cameras

posted 11 years ago by FilmMuscle
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So, I'm currently trying to use an Audio-Technica shotgun mic with my Canon camera to film a movie. How exactly do you locate the audio after you film the scenes? I mean, I've located the videos and everything when I connect the camera to the computer, but I can't see the audio files to sync the two. Can anyone help, please? This is really urgent as I'm starting this week. Thank you for your time.

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[–] dangus 11 years ago

I would expect that the audio and video are all crammed into one avi file. (AVI stands for Audio Video Interleaved.) It is possible to separate audio and video by demuxing, if you needed to mess with the audio in Audacity, for example.

[–] Speed_Daemon 11 years ago

Are you recording your audio separately from the video? If so, it's probably time that you learned about time code and how to sync audio-for-video with video.

If you're recording audio directly to the camera, and can't see a separate audio file, have you opened up the container file and created separate audio and video stream files?