From the course: HitFilm Express: Creating a Presentation Video

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Recording audio

Recording audio

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Recording audio

- Sound is more important than you might think. People will actually put up with slightly sub-par visuals, but bad sound will make them turn off straight away, so it is worth investing in a microphone. Now of course, there are many types of microphone at every price point you could possibly imagine. You might be wondering why you need one, because your camera probably already has an on-board microphone, but the problem with it, aside from the fact that on-board mics are just not very good quite a lot of the time, is that it's built into the case, and by being on the case, it means that any time you're making any adjustment on settings, or focusing on the lens, or anything like that, it's going to pick up that operator noise, and that can be extremely distracting and destroy your entire soundtrack. Whereas, if you're using an external microphone, it will be separated from the case, at least partially, immediately getting you much better results. Sometimes you'll strap a microphone…

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