Any possibility of using an external mic with Nikon P600 while video recording?

anilsarwal

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Any possibility of using an external mic with Nikon P600 while video recording? Please suggest.

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anilsarwal

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Thanks a lot. No there is no button. I was wondering whether there blue tooth wifi microphones that might work!

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480sparky

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Use an external mic, and record to an external device such as your smart phone. In your editing software, reduce the camera's audio track to 0% and replace use the audio file from your phone.
 

anilsarwal

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Thanks, Sparky. Can u suggest a software for this. Also how to synchronise audio with video? Especially recoding an interview.

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480sparky

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Thanks, Sparky. Can u suggest a software for this. Also how to synchronise audio with video? Especially recoding an interview.

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I use PowerDirector 14 by CyberLink.

To synch, just have both the camera and recorder on and recording. I clap my hands three times near the camera. This will produce three sharp peaks in the waveform of both tracks. Shifting the audio track from the phone left or right will eventually match the two up. You can then reduce the cameras audio to 0%.
 

Peter-R

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Use an external mic, and record to an external device such as your smart phone. In your editing software, reduce the camera's audio track to 0% and replace use the audio file from your phone.
Unless the clip is VERY short, you may lose synchronisation over the length of the clip. In any case, a clapper type arrangement to sync sound and vision is a useful idea.
 
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okulo

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Unless the clip is VERY short, you may lose synchronisation over the length of the clip. In any case, a clapper type arrangement to sync sound and vision is a useful idea.
If the camera and audio device are both set to the same sample rate, there is no reason for the synchronisation to slip.

Video recording devices default to 48kHz because that has been the standard but audio devices are often set to 44.1kHz which is CD quality. If you try to synchronise 48kHz with 44.1kHz, you will not be able to do so because the audio will be read at your project sample rate. I understand that some consumer level video editing software does attempt to resample on the fly but normally, if you import a 44.1kHz audio file into a 48kHz project, it will shorten by approximately 8%.

There is nothing in the manual about the audio sample rate, which is odd, but I would assume the it is 48kHz; it would be very unusual for a camera to capture audio at 44.1kHz.

The lack of a microphone input is seen by many as a serious shortcoming but for me it is not a problem. I would never capture audio through a camera except as a synching track - I have a separate audio recording device, a Zoom H6.

It doesn't hurt to insert a clap but it oughtn't be necessary. If you get the two audio roughly synchronised by any event, looking at the waveforms should show obvious correlations. For a an even quicker solution, there are applications like PluralEyes which can import all your footage and audio tracks and output them to a project native to a number of video editors, which include most versions of Final Cut Pro, Premiere, Avid Media Composer and Sony Vegas, with everything synchronised.

But I would say that if you have synchronisation slippage, there is something wrong with one of your inputs as the sample rates are standard and used throughout the media industries.
 

Peter-R

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Thanks for all that. I have been thinking in analogue terms.

Generally speaking, with Nikon cameras (mine is a D3200), when it comes to external mics, will most mic impedences do or is it easy to blow the camera's circuits? I have an old AKG D200E which I would like to try - also a Calrec condenser mic.
 
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