Need advise!

[flvideo]

I have need for an audio recorder that I can record various sound bites and then dump them in my Cassie to split for use in different places, maybe even burn a CD of portions of it. Does anyone have any suggestions? I was thinking MP3 but I don't know if the output of an MP3 recorder is compatable with the cassie. Any help would be appreciated. Bob....

[RonaldPawlak]

What I have been using is a Sony MZ-N707 portable MiniDisc recorder. It comes with a pretty good hand held mic, runs on a AA battery and you can record for about a hour or more per disc. It also has a line and mic mini disc input. I don't know if they are avaliable anymore, I purchased it a couple of years ago. I even lip sync to the video because the video audio was not acceptable, and it matched perfectly for a good lenght of time.

[flvideo]

Hi Ronald, Thanks for your response. I'll check it out. How do you download the audio in the Caccie?
Bob...

[flvideo]

Hi Ronald, I pulled up Sony's site and the MZ N7o7 is no longer available. I'll continue to look. Thanks Bob...

[Jeanton]

Hi Bob

Yes you can record from mp3 players into your editor.
If your mp3 player has a headphone jack you plug it in by using one side the head phone jack
in the mp3 player and on the other end rca plugs into your editor and then in the audio record choose the right input.
When I had only the Avio I had to record this way my music in because it had no CD drive.
This all is in real time so it will take a while.
This way you can record any sound into your machine if you can listen to it by headphones it is a done deal.

[flvideo]

Hi Jeanton, I will start looking for an MP3 recorder/player. Any good suggestions? I need to get one fairly soon. How have you been? Still Baking? I'd love to sample some of your delicacys. The only trouble is I'm diabetic. All that sugar and Carbs are not good for my doctor... Bob..

[Jeanton]

Hi Bob

Don't know any mp3 players just a simple to use one I suppose.
Yes I am still baking as winter sets in and weddings are rare so I have to work the other job but thats OK don't realy want to sit
behind the editor all the time.
No good for you then the goodies that I make most of them are full of sugar and full fat not realy good for a diet.
Do you ever go to bed Bob nearly 11 PM that is about an hour and half short of my wake up time don't know how you can keep awake for that long
I fall asleep after sunset but I suppose not many people could wake up in the middle of the night to go to work either.
Goodnight.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[flvideo]

Yes I go to bed Jeanton, ocasionally. I sleep about 6 hours a night and a couple times a week I'll get 8 or 9 hours. My body has never required a whole lot of sleep. I was all messed up working midnights. I'd go to work at 10:30 PM and off at 6:30 in the morning. I never could get it quite right. We traded shifts every 7 days so my body never had time to get acustom to it. Thank God we had a fellow that loved midnights. We all traded with him when we could. I proably worked about a dozen midnights in the 6 years I worked the shift work. Swing shift was my thing. !t worked from 2:30 to 10:30. I traded to get those when I could. I am retired now and I work when I want to except when I have a shoot. I enjoy working late at night. Its cool, quiet, and the phone isn't ringing off the hook. God talking to you, Have a good day. Bob.......

[IanPearson]

Have you been promoted then Bob, or is that a typo in the last sentence.

Ian

[Jeanton]

Hi Bob

I have been thinking about the use of a mp3 player to use as a recorder but I think they are not made to record anything they just play music that you dump in it by using a computer. That might not be the answer. If you do find a recorder and want to use sound bites it will be very hard to find the bite you want if you don't have a visual reference point.
Why not use one of your your additional cameras- I do it all the time with wedding ceremony's when there is a speaker and they don't speak in the church microphone I make sure one of my cameras is close enough to get some sound and I just put that sound (scene-sample) on an extra audio track in full and then trim it in the range mode in the audio mix screen (with a fisual reference point ) to the point I want it to fade in en out when they speak.