ok i have used the new clip mic for a wedding yesterday but when listening to the wav file in full i am finding that there are regular skips/jumps in the file.. has anyone experienced this before?

I can only report my experiences, and with an 80GB iPod, fully charged before event, and the MicroMemo, with optional lavalier mike, I've gotten complete audio with no other issues. I used the audio for three segments of the wedding video, synced it once, cut out what I didn't need, and when I went down the time line in FCP the audio was in sync where it needed to be.

It could be an issue with the iPod. Which type/size are you using?

Grant

its a 30gb video. Used it at another wedding today, will check results and get back to you tomorrow. I hope it was just a one off..

edit: yeah, same problem again. its a right pain. happens every 30 seconds of so.

I have about 10 gig spare on the ipod but im considering formatting it and trying again.

anyone got any ideas?

Get the right tool for the job at hand. :)

I know this isn't much help but this is the surest solution. The frustration alone should make you want to do this.

Looks like the iRiver 7xx/8xx series may have been revived as the iRiver F700, now with 4GB of memory. I'm not sure if the mic level input feature has made it since I can't read Japanese (Japan only player). Anyways, I'm not really interested in this player since there's no need for that much memory for our application, and the old iRivers are great because they're cheap, and this new one costs a heck of a lot more.

I do find it incredible that a small flash based player with a clean mic-level input doesn't seem to currently exist. Too bad....they're very useful for weddings.

and by the right tool for the job, do you mean an i river instead of an ipod video?

can i use the same MicroMemo?

I have now used this sucessfully with my 30gb video on 30+ occasions with no skipping, the key for me was to format the ipod before each time i use it. Bit of a pain but gets rid of any skipping in the wav file if the ipod is empty (or almost empty - no more than 2gb or so on there)