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how's it going guys John Q here from technobuffalo and we're back again with another video to help you guys out with your video production in the last one I covered very basic lighting techniques if you missed that then I'll be sure to include a link in the description box or if not I'll a scourge on lakers to do that he's cool like that for this video I'm gonna cover basic sound for video production something a lot of people overlook especially people who are new to amateur video production would be sound now when I say sound i'm not talking about sound effects or anything wow wow those are my amateur sound effects by the way when i mentioned sound i'm talking about audio as a whole like my voice for example for quality video sound means everything is even more important than the video itself watch see even though there's nothing there at this point the video still rather watchable I can even start an image slideshow if I wanted to as long as I'm still talking this is a pic of John Lakers all chubbed up from one of his live streams isn't it epic so what have we swap it around now there's no audio only video regardless of what's going on in the video I'm sure it's a lot harder to focus and pay attention to maybe not yet but imagine this for like two or three minutes then it get crazy now that we all know the importance of sound let's look at our options we have two main options here one of course would be to use an external microphone and two would be to use the internal microphone on your camera see I'm not very enthusiastic about this one because the internal microphone on the camera is just it's just nasty I highly highly recommend you choose the external microphone option and if so try your best to get the absolute best microphone you can get all you gotta do is plug it in and record with your favorite audio recording program and you're good to go from my videos i use a blue snowball microphone which would retail for about eighty or ninety dollars nowadays a huge advantage of using an external microphone would be that the quality would be so so much better because you can have the microphone closer to you when you speak the closer the subject is to the microphone the better the sound that's why you see there are boom people in film and TV on top of that it's a lot easier to do voiceovers because you don't need to turn on the camera in order to record your vocals a minor disadvantage would be that you'd have to sync of your audio file with the cameras audio file in your video editor which isn't as hard as it sounds and honestly it's not too bad another option involving microphones would be to you think sterno mic for your camera if your camera supports it you can use an external microphone such as the rode videomic right here usually they're a little bit more expensive compared to something like the snowball mic right here but you're playing for the convenience there's no audio syncing involved in regardless of where your film you know that audio will be rather decent and everything's just right there ready to go a huge disadvantage would be that if you're in an environment where the room is echoey and there's a lot of background noise and everything the mic probably will pick it up for videos like this one the audio would have no doubt been compromised because look at how far the camera is from me compared to this USB mic right here if I were to use it of course I actually bought the rode videomic for my Canon TTYL but I ended up returning it in about two days and picked up all the echo here from this room and even my cpu fan which is offensively loud even though my canon t2i supports an external microphone I like the quality a lot better from the snowball but that's just me personally second option i mentioned earlier would be to use the internal microphone from your camera the sound quality isn't too bad in the canon t2i internal microphone which is what you're hearing right now is definitely a lot better compared to the internal microphone of this sony HD camera right here I can't describe it the one on the sony is just not as good yeah the internal microphone from my panasonic lumix camera is even worse it sounds like i'm inside of a tin can or something very unpretty sounding so for amateur video making i highly recommend you get a microphone of some kind it can be for your camera or for your computer but if it's for your computer try to have the microphone as close to you as possible if you can have the microphone as close to you as possible without being in the shot at the camera unless of course you don't mind it being there then in which case all the power Turia if you're stuck using the cameras internal microphone and try to be as close to the camera as possible without being too close for comfort this level is acceptable this is a little bit creepy but the audio will be a lot better well that's it for my basic sound guide in the next one I'm gonna go more in depth and show you guys what you can do in post production to sync up the audio with your camera and make yourself sound more epic and manly by doing audio enhancements that doesn't sound very manly manly I don't have a very manly voice I really hope you guys found this video helpful and I'll see you guys in the next one