Nothing makes it harder to enjoy a video than not being able to hear what people say (okay, leaving the lens cap on is pretty bad too.)
My friend Jay Rose, sound professional and author extraordinaire, sent along this amusing video showing how bad sound pulls you out of a video, and how to prevent it.
Great sound is not optional.
The microphones on most video cameras are programmed to adjust their own sound levels: they take whatever they hear and boost it to a constant, listenable level. Unfortunately, if they hear crowd noise around you, they boost that. Traffic noise, sirens—it all gets boosted.
In fact, if the camera mic hears nothing, it boosts that too. In an interview where the subject is too far from the mic, the camera will crank up every hint of sound between you and them, creating a big, echoey overlay of room noise.
If you’re as close to your subject as you should be … Read the rest
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