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How to Record good audio with your video camera

Person demonstrating the use of a lavalier microphone outdoors.

Are you an aspiring filmmaker? If so, you might not have made it to Steven Spielberg status just yet, which means you could learn a thing or two. Eos Lighting has made this video to help teach you a little bit about sound on a video camera.

Watch this video tutorial to see how to record good audio with your video camera. Generally it's just as important to get good quality sound, if not more important, as it is to get good quality picture.

This video covers audio for video recording, microphone types, shotgun, lavalier, omnidirectional, unidirectional, uhf, vhf, wireless microphone, windscreen blimp, wind noise, and mono and stereo tracks.

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