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Re: Unexpected Surprise: PMW-200 Audio!

Great story, Dave.

On the flip side ... did the client notice or value the difference in the extra non-board audio?

Andrew

Re: Unexpected Surprise: PMW-200 Audio!

It would have been seriously missed.
Like watching a sporting event without hearing the crowd cheering when the home team scores in overtime...
As it happens, the press rep (the client) was there during the overnight edit - and did hear the difference.

Re: Unexpected Surprise: PMW-200 Audio!

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Originally Posted by Jack Zhang (Post 1868890)

The design of the PMW-200 internal mic makes it less for ambiance but rather for straight forward sound capture. You can tell by the holes in the design that none of them are at the top or sides of the capsule.

The EX1 and EX1R had more open mic capsules which made them bad for speech, but perfect for wide stereo ambiance.

The obvoius answer to that dilemma is MS stereo recording, which enables to choose at the editing stage whether you want the straight mono sound from the center cardio mic, the super-wide stereo from combination of cardioid mic for center and fig of 8 mic for the sides, or anything in between, without phase problems whatsoever... totally practical and flexible... hence my question about the possibiliy to replace the original capsules.

Re: Unexpected Surprise: PMW-200 Audio!

Subsidiairy question: in the case where the external source is a MS stereo mic, does a NLE application such as FCPX enable to use the zoom meta-data so that the stereo image is widened when zooming out and narrowed when zooming in ?