From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Audio
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Monitoring sound
Rich Harrington: Well, in our last movie we talked all about looking at the VU meters, setting your levels visually. Of course, looking at them and seeing them from a visual point of view still doesn't really matter. It's how they sound, right? Robbie Carman: Yeah, I got to be honest with you, Rich, I've seen more productions literally ruined because nobody was actually monitoring the audio on-set. And they said, oh you know, the levels look fine, but then when they got back to their studio and started post-production, there was things like power line hum or AC noise, or worse yet, audio that's over-modulated and distorted and things of that nature. Rich: I got even simpler than that. I was on a shoot and I had two crew people and I turned to both of them. I was directing, not shooting, I said, are we getting good sound? Robbie: Right. Rich: And he had headphones plugged in and then one guy was listening to what was going into the mixer, he is like, sounds great! And the camera…
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