Weird audio question for newbie

[brandonhurst650]

I have a UClear HBC100 in my helmet and the Voice Recorder HD app for iPhone 5 which will record voice through a bluetooth device, I have checked the app and it does work and record voice using the uclear but I am unsure on how to get the recorded audio from my iPhone to my computer and what it will sound like. Has any body tried this with success? My computer is a Mac laptop.

 

[Shirou]

You should set a sync cue on all recording devices as soon as you start (clap, use a clapper, hit something in front of the cameras).
Then import the separate video and audio tracks on your editing program and sync them using the cue.
After you synced the sources, lock the audio track to the video track so they won't move during the edit.

General advice from my experience: It's a bad idea to record audio through a Bluetooth headset, the headset will often compensate for the radio link quality and skew the audio so there's a high chance of ending up with audio/video sync problems.
Also, it's complicated to work with separate audio tracks, do it a few times and evaluate if you can spend the time setting everything up or if you'd rather record the audio content with the video camera to make things simpler.

 

[brandonhurst650]

You should set a sync cue on all recording devices as soon as you start (clap, use a clapper, hit something in front of the cameras).
Then import the separate video and audio tracks on your editing program and sync them using the cue.
After you synced the sources, lock the audio track to the video track so they won't move during the edit.

General advice from my experience: It's a bad idea to record audio through a Bluetooth headset, the headset will often compensate for the radio link quality and skew the audio so there's a high chance of ending up with audio/video sync problems.
Also, it's complicated to work with separate audio tracks, do it a few times and evaluate if you can spend the time setting everything up or if you'd rather record the audio content with the video camera to make things simpler.

thanks man, any idea of how to get the recorded audio off the phone and onto the computer?

 

[Shirou]

thanks man, any idea of how to get the recorded audio off the phone and onto the computer?

Not really, never touched an iProduct before. I guess you should browse the contents of the phone with itunes or whatever file manager comes with the phone, then copy the audio file.
This website suggests that the iphone shows up as a mass storage device when connected to a computer, try connecting it using the USB cable and browse the folders until you find the audio files.

 

[CBRHoonigan]

Maybe try doing it the easier way and recording straight onto the camera?

 

[brandonhurst650]

Ok so I successfully tried this method out. It was fairly easy finding the audio file using iTunes and matching the audio and video was fairly easy too, the audio came out great. No wind noise and it was loud enough the only downside.. it sounded like I was on the other end of a telephone call, so using the Uclear to record good, clean audio = fail. on to a new idea

 

[Marbro_za]

@R1Warrior rolls like this

maybe he can help?

 

[EN187]

I suggest taking your iphone n throwing it on the ground to get the audio files out... LOL jk listen to Shirou

 

[EN187]

Ok so I successfully tried this method out. It was fairly easy finding the audio file using iTunes and matching the audio and video was fairly easy too, the audio came out great. No wind noise and it was loud enough the only downside.. it sounded like I was on the other end of a telephone call, so using the Uclear to record good, clean audio = fail. on to a new idea

Does it give you options on recording quality? If it does set it higher and try that

 

[Shirou]

In some programs you can choose what mic to use, headset, front or back. On my phone though, the back mic is restricted to the stock camera app only.
The default app only records "GSM quality audio", that is, highly compressed 8KHz AMR audio. On other apps you can select recording quality and format. Try 22.050 KHz at 16 bit mono PCM audio or 44.100 KHz 4bit mono ADPCM.
I use midiio recorder for general audio on my phone, I haven't had the chance to use it for vlogs.