Unlike a lavaliere, a shotgun requires a little more kit to make it work properly. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about stands, windscreens, shock mounts, and more. Mic Clips and Mounting Systems: How to Attach a Shotgun Mic to a Stand Let’s go through the equipment you’ll need to mount your shotgun microphone to a… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: Essential Shotgun Microphone Gear
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On-Camera Audio Recording: Shotgun Microphones
If I had to choose one desert island microphone for video production, it would be a shotgun microphone. Is it the best at everything? No. But compared to a lavaliere, a pencil condenser, or a handheld microphone, it wins in many more situations. In this tutorial, you’ll find out why. What Is a Shotgun Microphone?… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: Shotgun Microphones
On-Camera Audio Recording: Pencil Condenser Microphones
It’s important to understand what microphones do and how they work when capturing audio. Each type and model comes with its own set of features and characteristics that can be used to your advantage when recording a subject. In this audio recording tutorial, we’re going over pencil condenser microphones. So let’s jump in and start… Continue reading On-Camera Audio Recording: Pencil Condenser Microphones
The best lavalier microphone setups for capturing dialogue
Mic’d up and ready to record. Onur Binay, Unsplash Lavalier (or lapel) microphones used to be more enticing in theory than they were in reality. Bad sound quality, short battery life, and clunky transmitters made them more of a nuisance than a practical audio solution. However, developments in the technology now allow for great wireless… Continue reading The best lavalier microphone setups for capturing dialogue
How to Use the Essential Sound Panel to Edit Dialogue in Premiere Pro
In this lesson from David Bode’s FREE Ultimate Premiere FAQ course, you’re going to learn about the Essential Sound panel and how you can use it to punch up and clean up your dialogue for better mixes. To address your audio issues in Premiere Pro, you going to use the Essential Sound panel to fix issues with… Continue reading How to Use the Essential Sound Panel to Edit Dialogue in Premiere Pro
Nomad Contributor: Atila Bezdan
Atila has been a 360Cities contributor since 2008, publishing more than 600 panoramas from various countries. Visit Atila’s profile page and you will see why he has earned the Nomad badge: Paris, Jerusalem, Porto, London, Dubrovnik, Barcelona, Athens, Bratislava, Tel Aviv, Petra… The list of places he has visited and photographed is long. You can… Continue reading Nomad Contributor: Atila Bezdan
One of the Webb telescope’s first missions will scope out two hot exoplanets
According to NASA, the image is a rendering of what 55 Cancri e might look like based on current information. “55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with a diameter almost twice that of Earth orbiting just 0.015 astronomical units from its Sun-like star. Because of its tight orbit, the planet is extremely hot, with… Continue reading One of the Webb telescope’s first missions will scope out two hot exoplanets
Does the New DJI Mic Have a Noise Problem?
I finally received my DJI Mic after pre-ordering it more than a month ago, and at first, I was disappointed. When I did the initial test with the DJI Receiver connected to my Canon R5, the audio I recorded was much noisier than what I was used to from my old setup, for which I… Continue reading Does the New DJI Mic Have a Noise Problem?
Sony a7IV sample images gallery: ocean spray, aerial views, and one happy pup
Sony a7IV, Sony FE 12-24mm f/2.8 | @ 23mm, ISO 200, 1/500 sec, f/2.8. Abby Ferguson Sony has been putting out some impressive gear lately, and the Sony a7IV is no exception. It’s an ideal camera for a wide variety of individuals and use cases—everything from vlogging to more fine-tuned videography and of course, all… Continue reading Sony a7IV sample images gallery: ocean spray, aerial views, and one happy pup