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External audio settings

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External audio settings

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This week, I want to turn our attention to audio. If you watch any of my other courses on lynda.com, you know that I always say your audio is more important than your video, and I say that because there are many more things that I think that can go wrong when it comes to audio. There's so many buttons and settings and if just one of them is off, you won't get good audio, or you won't get any audio at all. So I want to turn our attention to the audio settings, then I'm going to talk about the menu, as well as how we can monitor audio to make sure that we always have quality audio for our videos. So, let's go ahead and take a look at the little black box right here. I'm going to start with this switch right here. Which is A and M, which stands for auto or manual audio levels. More often than not, I'm going to be set on manual. We'll talk later on about some circumstances where we might put it in auto, but generally, we want to be on manual level. So we go ahead and do that. And then…

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