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Feb 18

Recording interviews on an iPhone

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This is a very simple setup to get 2 microphones into an iPhone.

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Sep 28

How to get good sound (from video or music) over Zoom

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Zoom is optimised for speaking. If there is any other noise (e.g. a guitar or piano) Zoom will think it is background noise and try to remove it! To share a movie or song over a zoom meeting you need to change some settings. Here’s how.

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Related Topics: audio | livestreaming | video | zoom

Jun 24

How to get good sound on a movie, livestream or webinar.

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With COVID our church has moved to putting the talks online. The most important thing when recording talks is good audio quality. Your eyes can put up with poor video, but poor audio gets irritating very quickly. Thankfully it’s very easy to get clear sound.

The key is to use an external microphone so that the mic can be close to the person who’s talking. Don’t use the mic that’s built into your laptop or phone. This is especially important if you are in an online meeting where you are listening as well as speaking.

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Mar 30

How to do a livestream

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Fantastic article on how to do a livestream here:

How to Live Stream in your church

How to connect a firewire camera to a new Mac

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I recently purchased a new Mac mini and it does not have a FireWire or Thunderbolt port. You will also have the same problem if you have purchased a very recent model MacBook Pro or iMac. The problem is I have quite a nice 3CCD Panasonic video camera that has a FireWire port on it. I need a Firewire to USB-C adapter but Apple don’t make one. They are changing ports faster than they can make new adapters.

Thankfully, as I found out today, you can plug your FireWire cable into a ‘FireWire to thunderbolt’ adapter and then you can plug this adapter into a ‘Thunderbolt to USB- C’ adapter. IT looks a mess but it works.