{ San Antonio Wedding Photography | How do I record sound with Canon 5D Mark II }

The sound qual­ity off the canon 5d mark II is not great  (I posted how I get around this on this post).   Eter­nal micro­phones such as Rode ViodeoMic is good option but not great cap­tur­ing sounds that are far away.  Only option for cap­tur­ing sound dur­ing cer­e­mony is using lava­lier micro­phone sys­tem, prefer­ably wire­less.  I am a wed­ding pho­tog­ra­pher and don’t really want to think about wire­less lav mic sys­tem and record­ing device on a wed­ding day (I am a pho­tog­ra­pher not video­g­ra­pher).  I just found great way to record sound.  It’s Olym­pus DS-40 and I picked up $50 on ebay.  I also pur­chased olym­pus  ME-15 mic lava­lier micro­phone that clips grooms cloth­ing.  The whole sys­tem is less than $100 and very very small.

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DS-40 Dig­i­tal Voice Recorder I use on wed­ding day

I used this setup dur­ing recent engage­ment ses­sion and sound qual­ity was pretty good.  I had some prob­lems with sync and align­ment using this sys­tem.  The solu­tion that I found was to use MPEG Stream­clip soft­ware by Squared 5 (here’s a link to down­load) and it’s free.  Only tricky thing was to change some of pre­sets.  I use fol­low­ing presets:

I use apple inter­medi­iate codec at %80 qual­ity and set audio at 44.1 khz when I use Olym­pus DS-40.  Some peo­ple sug­gested to man­u­ally change audio speed to solve sync and align­ment or recoded again with 48 khz record­ing device.  But I found this is easy way to solve this problem.

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