Epic Fail -audio-

Syntaxxor

Syntaxxor

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So, I went out and made a consorted effort to make a decent vlog. I went to Seattle, turned on my gopro, started my audio recording and went at it for about an hour.

THEN, a few hours later, I was making a video specifically addressing a specific topic, and thought I had everything golden.

Get home, get the videos off the camera. (Untested camera angles, I should have thought about that before, but hey, it came out fine.)

Go to check my audio...annnnd....the first file is 47:53 of silence.......second file...14:43 of silence...and then 30 seconds of my footsteps.

......So disappointed, but I guess that's what I get, I didn't look at the voice recorder to make sure it was...ya know, recording.

Anyone with similar experiences?
 
Oh good LORDY yes! Several times.

I've had problems with my voice recorder not taking any sound. I once had a memory card that corrupted when I was riding my bike to the airport to catch a flight and trying to make a video about riding your bike to the airport to catch a flight! So I was in a bit of a hurry! That prompted me to get a drift and external mic. Everything together and only one record button to push. Simple right? WRONG! I've lost about 10% of ALL the videos the drift camera has been used for because it decides to corrupt the files when the battery dies so that either the audio is choppy, or there is none or worst of all, the video is just unuseable!

The most annoying is when I was riding through beautiful Spanish countryside this summer. I was reeling out the most insightful commentary the world has ever known and creating Motovlogging gold! BUT some plonker, i.e me, had forgotten to actually plug the mic into the back of the camera when he swapped batteries. So my 'GOLD' was 45 minutes of wind noise with the occasional 'BR-R-RAPP' from the exhaust!

So you are not alone dear boy!
 
I'm not the kind of vlogger that checks the footage as soon as I get off the bike, It remains on the card or I copy it to the computer to check it later. That means, if there is something wrong with the camera, I'll notice weeks after, when checking the downloaded videos. Meanwhile the camera will keep producing unusable video.

I once broke my homemade mic V1, it will work some time then the audio will mute and work again maybe after a few hours. I ended up with days of silent footage until I noticed the problem. Then I discarded that mic and made another that is way better.
Another time I was messing with the settings and ended up with the camera time-stamping the video and with the lowest light setting. Again, hours and hours of dark and stamped videos.
Another time I turned on the 120fps mode, ended up with ant-size 320x240 videos.
 
Went back out and redid it! We shall prevail! This time got near an hour of total footage, with confirmed audio lol.
 
Hopefully using a H2N and being able to see the sound levels live means that I shouldn't do this, but I know it has to happen at some point.
 
The portable recorders are a little different to battery powered mics, but the batteries running out mid ride is definitely going to catch me out one day.
 
Marbro_za said:
used to have a battery powered mic, batteries went flat, i threw away the mic
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Same, and a matter of fact the company who made my mic came out with a GoPro version which actually game with an adapter and a mic with a shorter cable. Screw battery powered mics
 
My jacket has two chest level pockets, I drop an old cell into the left side and use that to record my audio. Don't even notice it's there while riding.
 
Connected to a mic that goes up the left side. (see my Jerry-Rigged thread) I actually went out and bought a sponge, as you suggested, to make another deadcat, now my mic is safety pinned to my chin curtain.
 
Yeah that's the same as I use with the H2N for helmet audio.

A sponge with a hole in it, wrapped in a piece of cloth and zip tied works really well in helmets. The cloth might not be necessary.
 
Eyeballing a Hero3 white. Concocting a rubberband system for water proofing where I have to drill into the case to reach the micro USB slot. Electric tape between the adapter and the 3.5 as well.

Dunno, but it'll eliminate syncing (random horn honks when people walk in front of me is hilarious though.)
 
Syntaxxor said:
Eyeballing a Hero3 white. Concocting a rubberband system for water proofing where I have to drill into the case to reach the micro USB slot. Electric tape between the adapter and the 3.5 as well.

Dunno, but it'll eliminate syncing (random horn honks when people walk in front of me is hilarious though.)
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HA! I started with the seperate recorder, then went to a DRIFT HD to eliminate the synching.

Now I want stereo outside noise for a 'richer' experience, so I've gone back to scaring the bejeezus out of pedestrians again! Plus I just fitted a super loud two-tone horn to the bike!!
 
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