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Audio is very important when making a good video and yet it is one of those things that are largely ignored. There is nothing more frustrating than watching a video and not understanding a word that is being said. That scratchy sound or where the voices sound garbled is so annoying it can really ruin a video.
How To Make Sure You Get The Best Audio Quality On Your Video
Once you read this you are going to have an ah ha moment! It is so simple to insure that your audio quality is up to par. Positioning is the number one thing that is going to effect the audio quality on your video. Where you are positioned holding the video equipment and who or what is positioned in front of you.
This is how it works. For sound to reach our ears it has to travel and bounce off of people and things. Sometimes even when we are within hearing distance of someone or something it is difficult to hear the sound because there is other sound or there are too many people or things in between us and the sound. Some of the sound waves wind up getting absorbed by other people or items. Our brains however kick in and if we focus enough we can still pick up the sound. Unfortunately for us, video equipment does not have the ability to filter out other noise nor can it focus harder to hear what the goal is to hear. So where you position yourself while holding the video equipment is really going to effect the audio quality of your movie.
For instance you are filming a wedding and you are one or two rows from the couple, and you have a clear shot between them and the video camera the chances are you are going to be able to pick up the audio of this event well. Now lets say you are one or two rows from the couple but there is a person in front of you wearing linen that makes a rustling noise every time that person moves and it seems like they shift around quite a bit, you audio is going to be affected by the rustling noise. The sound that is closest to the video camera is going to be heard the loudest during the video playback.
Speaking of which, your voice, breathing, coughing, whispering etc., is also going to be picked up loudly. So a good rule of thumb is to be as quite as you can.
Getting the best audio quality that you can is really going to improve your video.