I decided to start a series of audio/video recordings in various locations.
It is not supposed to be a professional series of videos or a CD quality recording, just something expressly made for the web
I will not be able to afford someone to help me all the times, so I will need to set up a light and easy-to-use audio/video recording system.
First attempt was made using:
- Zoom H4 (borrowed), internal microphones + 2 external on separate tracks. In the future, a laptop with a 4 tracks interface might replace it.
- Obsolete video camera. The mp2 format gave me some conversion headache: funny things happened using new and old QT players, iMovie, vlc... eventually youtube understood a .mov format generated by Logic from a vlc converted file. A better reasonably priced videocam must be in the pipeline. Anyone tried the Zoom one?
- Some stage lights from the side. They balanced the lamp in the video keeping the dim feel. I have been lucky they had that at the school.
Video has been made at the school where I teach (former mansion of the Earl of Sandwich) and everyone was nice and helpful without rushing us. In the next locations I might need to consider setup time as an issue.
Any advice is welcome.