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Just chatting about this with a friend, trying to evaluate some different options.

He already has a Canon 5D II and feels that the external mic input is just not going to cut it for serious amateur level movie recording. I’m considering buying a 5D II in the next 6 months or so (I already have a good selection of high end Canon glass and an older DSLR) and starting mucking about with making some music videos.

He’s looking at doing small scale commercial movie work. We live on opposite sides of the planet, so we won’t be working together.

Both of us are well familiar with professional level photo editing and video editing software, but as we are both photographers before videographers, we are a bit behind on the times with audio equipment.

The thinking is that if the 5D audio quality is insufficient, we would just use externally recorded audio source.

Now for his uses, he’s been looking at portable solutions. Stuff with batteries that can record very high quality audio on to either a HD or SD.

He found one with a 40GB HD, but really, that just doesn’t seem modern enough (both of us shoot multiple 16-32GB CF and SD cards and burn through 250GB+ hard drives like water). Also, it doesn’t seem to have battery power options.

So what would you recommend for audio mixing and digital recording?

I’ve actually been pretty happy with inputting directly into my PDA with Resco Audio Recorder at 192kbps. I have a pretty basic Roland Micro Cube which can run for hours on 6 AA batteries and can handle clean audio from an instrument and vocals. My mike of choice is a Shure SM58.

As far as I’m concerned though, I’m just mucking about.

What is out there for 4 channel mixers that can be battery powered?

What is a pro level recording device that works on batteries, can record at very high quality and can deal with removable media?

Input please?

Thanks.
thanks zook.

yeah, I’m personally only planning on doing music videos. Max length is probably about 5 minutes or so.

The Edirol 4 channel was actually one thing that we had been discussing, but the price is a tad steep.

Now the only other question is – for long duration vids, will digital recording keep consistent enough time that I can just sync sound up at the beginning of the clip and have it stay in sync for several minutes?

I’ve had problems with this in editing from tape before.

I really wanna get into audio production and i’ve tried FL Studio 7 and 8 and they are both too complicated. Does anyone know any good audio production softwares? I need at least a free trial to see if it’s good and then maybe i’ll buy it.

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NOT including Audacity

this is the method i HAVE to use…

i take the Wii’s audio cables and put them in a slitter then put the slitter in my PC Mic slot. what is the best audio recording software (quality wise) for this method?

My budget is below $1,000. All I’m looking for is an 8 input preamp with USB connection, any type of pro tools v8, and condenser mics. I know i can’t get such good mics for too cheap, but I’m just getting started.

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