How loud is the Konvas?
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- Created on Sunday, 09 September 2007 15:00
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Here's a small audio clip of a konvas and a director saying "Cut!" The camera was around 5 feet away from the director with a 400' magazine and roughly around 300' of film in the mag (the more film in a given magazine, the less room for sound to bounce around. btw: the smaller 200' magazines with 150' of film have even less room for sound to bounce around and are seemingly quieter than the 400' mags). The audio was recorded in a room roughly 16' x 13' (5 meters x 4 meters), with carpet on the floor. The microphone was aimed away from the camera, and aimed towards the director, when the director said "Cut".
If none of the above dampens the sound enough for you, then you can always build a sound blimp for your Konvas. You can find info on building a sound blimp on commiecam.com (under camera modifications).
An audio trick that Todd Terry recommends is to try a program called VocAlign - you can record audio with the camera running, then record it again with the camera off (have the talent stay in the same rhythm for best results), then seemingly "mix" the two together and out comes almost perfectly aligned, clean, crisp audio. This program is great for doing commercial spots.
Another good audio program that may help clean up audio problems from using a Konvas is Audacity. It is released under the GNU Public License, so it is free to download and use - give it a try!