![]() Once you have the audio tracks perfectly aligned, you can also decide how much audio you want from the camera to come through. You want the external mic’s audio track to be so perfectly aligned that it sounds like a single person clapping one single time. If you add the external mic’s audio into your timeline, you can see graphically where your audio spikes are from somebody clapping before speaking:Īll you have to do is line them up, and then playback the video a couple times to make sure they are exactly aligned. Step 4) Sync the audio to the video in your editing appĪfter you import your stitched 360 video in a video editing application like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, it’s time to sync the external mic’s audio with the 360 camera’s audio. Then you can trim out bad takes and manage your project easier in your favorite video editing app. To make it easier on yourself in post-processing, clap a single time before each video section, and before each take. Just a single clap will suffice… don’t applaud until your client mails you a check! =) This will give us a nice audio spike that will allow you to easily sync the audio in post-processing. When you have your wireless mic system hooked up to your phone (or other recording device), you’re at the scene you want to shoot, and you or another narrator is ready to speak, it’s time to record! After pushing record on the 360 camera and also the smartphone, have someone clap near enough and/or loud enough to overcome other noise happening in the scene. In order to plug the receiver into my iPhone, I had to use an Apple Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter and a Rode SC7 3.5mm TRS to TRRS Patch Cable. This minimizes the chance of audio intermittently cutting out. In many cases, I will hide the Rode receiver (attached to my iPhone) in the 360 scene with the narrator where the camera can’t see it, rather than taking the phone with me and hiding around the corner of a wall. Rode advertises them to work at “a line-of-sight range of up to 70m,” but if a person’s body or wall comes between the pair, the range can shorten significantly. One thing to remember if using this system is to keep the receiver as close as possible to the transmitter/mic. If you want to be safe, you could use the lavalier mic and you’ll still have the ability to add in ambient noise using the audio captured by the 360 camera once the audio is synced, which I’ll explain later in this article. In situations where you want to minimize ambient noise, I would opt for using a lavalier mic, but if you’re OK with a little ambient noise then you probably don’t need it (I recorded someone talking 20 feet from a busy road with just the basic Rode Wireless Go kit, and it allowed a little bit of the traffic noise in the background, but the person’s voice was clear). I have used these mics both with and without the optional Rode Lavalier Mic. They are super lightweight and small enough that the narrator can just clip the transmitter/mic to their lapel, and you’re ready to roll. When I recently recorded a 360 video in a bar with a host/narrator, I used the Rode Wireless Go mics, which are a great option. You may already have a wireless mic system (transmitter & receiver), or you may be starting to look at options. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This page contains links to products, so if you find this site useful and use a link to make a purchase, I’ll get a small commission. This article takes a look at the steps involved with recording audio with a separate device, and then syncing it with the video taken by the 360 camera. For this reason and whatever other reasons, your only option for recording high quality vocal audio (especially in places with lots of ambient noise) for many 360 cameras is to record with an external mic and a separate device with audio recording capabilities. This means if you were to have cables coming out of the camera, they’d probably show up in the video. Time to get your trusty external microph… oh wait, where does this thing plug in?ģ60 video cameras are unique in that they record video in all directions using 2 or more lenses, so the videos can be stitched together to create a 360 video. Or maybe you’re trying to record a restaurant owner talking about their business on location, but the ambient noise prevents their voice from being heard clearly using the built in mics. You just bought that shiny new GoPro Max and you want to record a realtor talking on the beach patio for an oceanside 360 video shoot, but the ocean is overpowering the realtor’s voice in the GoPro mic. (Or the Insta360 One X…or many other 360 cameras for that matter)
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