Weddings : Wireless or Cam mic

1. nobody
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   I was wondering if anyone could tell me that records weddings if they use the Cam's mic or do they run wireless. Or is either fine, I've heard some people say they just use the cam's mic.

   Posted 8 years ago #

2. nobody
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   If you want to be able to hear the vows clearly, use a wireless on the groom. This location usually works well for picking up the groom, bride, AND officient.

   Posted 8 years ago #

3. nobody
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   I use in my deluxe packages three cameras. My non-deluxe, two. Now going on the theory that three cams have two mic inputs...3x2=6 channels for possible inputs...here's how I break it down...the front camera I have my groom's mic in channel 1...camera mic on channel 2 (PD-300) for house audio. My second and third wireless mic is usually on my other operator's camcorder...to his, he covers the podium for channel 1, and the other mic for either a soloist or another speaker at another position. Lastly, my third camera which is locked down (cover camera) can either be left alone with channel 1 free, or I can put the house audio into it...and the other channel can get the ambient house audio with the camera mic.
   
   So to answer your question, should any of the mics go down, I always have some kind of back up, and then I sync my audio in editing. That means that I have house AND ambient sound.
   
   One last tip...ALWAYS change your batteries before each wedding...that's very embarassing to lose your audio during the vows...take the expense and put new batteries in the transmitter and receiver before putting them on the camera!
   
   Good Luck!

   Posted 8 years ago #

4. tjborek
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   Just about every built-in microphone picks up the sound of fumbling fingers and camera noise (focus, zoom, tape drive). That being the case, you're always better off using an external sound source, be it a camera-mounted microphone, wireless mic(s), or line-level feed from a P.A. system.
   
   As you may have figured out from throdown's reply, the number of cameras or audio recording devices you has determines your flexibility and eventually the finished audio. The more sources the better. For example, in two-camera ceremony shoots, I use an external mixer to blend stereo ambient sound with a wireless microphone. I feed the mixer audio to a stationary camera shooting wide from the back of the church. The stationary camera's audio serves as the master stereo audio track. The danger here is there's very little I can do in post-production to fix this file (garbage in = garbage out). This is a tricky approach because the church acoustics and wireless mic's distance from the camera can cause an echo if I'm not careful to fade out the ambient sound while bringing up the wireless mic signal (dialog).
   
   Audio is still my main source of problems; while shooting my last wedding, an outdoor ceremony on a windy day, I left the groom's mic level up when he wasn't speaking. This resulted in my accidentally recording horrible wind noise. The only way for me to fix the wind noise was to chop off all the bass frequencies below 100 Hz during the wind gusts, which which pretty noticeable in the finished audio. (Luckily the wind died down for the last two-thirds of the ceremony.)

   Posted 8 years ago #

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