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Re: errrrr.....miniplug? by Fullofkittens 07/31/2003, 12:18am PDT
FABIO wrote:

The camera's got a yellow and white video and audio female plug. I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to audio equipment (I'm assuming wireless lavaliers are out of the question), tried plugging in my ghetto computer mike into the audio plug, too big. Are those plugs output only?


Those are RCA plugs. The yellow plug is the RCA video out, I'm pretty sure. There should be a red and white pair of similar plugs - those are the audio out. If there's only a white or only a red, then it's mono audio and not stereo. If there's only one set of plugs, then it's probably output only. They're there so you can copy videos from the camcorder to a VCR.

Wireless lavaliers would work if you were recording onto some separate device and had some method of syncing the audio and video in post. (I'm thinking some ghetto method, like using the clapboard sound as a spike to line up the audio visually in your video sequencing app. SMPTE sync is definitely out of the reach of the budget-minded.) The receivers, (unless there's been some innovation since they made the ones I've used) they're way too big to carry around with the camera and require AC power. So, that might not be too practical.

Are those two jacks the only two on the whole thing? If so, you might need to kick it Rodriguez-style and do all the sound in post. It's cheaper that way anyway.

-FoK
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Home moviemaking question for FoK by FABIO 07/30/2003, 7:53pm PDT NEW
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        errrrr.....miniplug? by FABIO 07/30/2003, 11:19pm PDT NEW
            Re: errrrr.....miniplug? by Fullofkittens 07/31/2003, 12:18am PDT NEW
                yeah those are the only two jacks by FABIO 07/31/2003, 1:20am PDT NEW
                    Re: yeah those are the only two jacks by I need clarification 07/31/2003, 2:36am PDT NEW
                        JVC, model NO. GR-AXM210U NT by FABIO 07/31/2003, 3:14am PDT NEW
                            That model has no external mic jack NT by Fussbett 07/31/2003, 4:12am PDT NEW
                    Re: yeah those are the only two jacks by Fussbett 07/31/2003, 2:57am PDT NEW
                        Re: yeah those are the only two jacks by FABIO 07/31/2003, 3:13am PDT NEW
                            thread has gone AIM! feel free to jump in on HAWT HAWT CHAT! NT by FABIO 07/31/2003, 4:06am PDT NEW
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