The Basics of Recording Audio for Digital Video

Thanks Matey

I am glued to the screen and love everything about the presentation of the topic! Merci!!

tq

If you're human then there's no way that you can hear the difference between a 48 kHz sampling rate and 96 kHz. The reason to record at 96 kHz or higher is that those extra samples can sometimes be important in post-processing. For your final cut, you can go with 48 and be perfectly fine - no one can hear the difference. Maybe you've confused this with bit rate? With a compressed format such as mp3 a higher bitrate can absolutely make a difference. For my ears, a low bit rate is most noticable with applause. My ears happen to be really good at picking up the digital artifacts left over from lossy compression.

Awesome....great explanation 👍

Brilliant! Sold!

Hi Filmmaker IQ!
I want to record 96kHz 24bit but when I'm exporting my videos (together with audio) in Premier Pro, the maximum samplerate is 48000Hz, for the format H.264 (which is the best, what I've read). How can I fix this, how do you do John?

I say: Sound is half the picture, double-ly so if the picture is pornography😁

Nearly didn’t watch this…. Glad that I did, because I learned more in that video than in all the others that I’ve watched.

This a great lecture

I would rather have a higher sampling rate in exchange of bit rate depth which is useful only for top frequencies sound. Vinyl was great with human voice registering thanks to step less wave which in way more pleasant to the ear, and it's smoothed out with difficulty and loses by a multi frequencies smoothers obtaining a slammed line instead of round one.

Be on tNice tutorials ²⁰¹³

what a video this is

Mic plus Preamp quality first

Wow! This was incredibly helpful... even 8 years later. Thank you for this quality product and great descriptions!

Thanks for the explanation.

🎶🎵 ... on the RØDE again ... 🎶 ... 😁

This may be the most perfect video I've come across. Feels like I'm back in high school classes, amazing

This video is gold.

buenisimo, gracias

Brilliant content.

So I'm supposed to get the microphone as vlose as possible?

96khz sounds better aye? You can actually tell the difference?

Thanks John - very succinct, clear and to the point. Great introduction - I now have a much better understanding of all that text book stuff that was dry to get through and didn't really make sense. Your video has helped tremendously. Highly recommend this as an introduction
for anyone entering the world of video and sound.

John Hess. That was fantastic!

Imagine trying to be a recording engineer in the pre-internet days. You had to read user manuals with no pictures.

Excellent explanations John!! Thank you.

My single system which I would have to use also as recorder in double system weighs about 6kg! But I'm still grateful to have it..

Real benefit of 96KHz (or more) is the flexibility it offers in post production (to me). With more samples you get a more precise digital signal processing, and less phase issues when processing the audio. 48KHz sounds as good as 96KHz to my ears (I would say that I hear quite well), but won't offer this extra step. On the other hand, a broader bit depth will really give you quieter noise floors that are always handy to have. 48KHz / 24bits is still a good combo, and for distribution even CD quality or good MP3 conversion will provide pleasant sound :)

I just got a rode NTG2 recently (a little out of date I know) but as a film student, I just found lavs, even the professional wireless ones, way too finicky with a lot that could potentially go wrong. So I decided to put in the money to switch to boom and watched this video to get an idea on what parts and accessories I would need. I've got an idea for most of it but I'm just wondering exactly where the raw audio once recorded would be stored? I know I need a preamp/interface but doesn't that need something to plug into too?

someone who produces a film records the video on ProRes or RAW ... these 10 MB/s (for multi-track record) for audio doesn't make a diffeence most of the time - audio file are soo small compared to the other departments - just ask a VFX-Compositor - video can consist of more than 100 GB/s ! ;)

Excellent job

This needs to be updated to cover 32-bit float.

I'm so glad that I didn't pay to go to school for this

why did you steal woody

Thanks for knowledge

Every 6 months I come back to this video and learn something new. Such an asset to the internet!

You are talking about audio and your own audio quality isn't that great. The level of your audio is so low that I had to increase the volume a LOT to hear you and still isn't that great. Come on man...

Great 👍 thank you 😊

Make one video about iPhone cinema

Why have I not subbed? Have now.

What a brilliant video. Thanks

True

Great video. I've had a couple of audio production jobs and I want to be more educated about how to get better sound.

2021 and STILL a GREAT video sir...I learned a ton and increased your subs by one!!

Very useful video sir.Any microphone 🎤to use for my Zoom Recorders for films??