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Originally Posted by Rudy4
Very nicely done, Fran.
Since the fisheye of the Sony is so hard to watch I found the Canon Vixia to be SO much better. Once you coupled the Zoom H1 mic to it I found the combination to be very nice. After the improvement in video coupled with a pretty decent audio I think it would be very difficult to go back to a "music" camera.
I do understand that your camera of preferance is a bit higher up the food chain, but this is a close second.
I thought you had a self-powered Rode N4? That seems like it might work really well for getting good audio into the camera. I'm also curious if the camera itself has any self-limiting or compression on the audio input, although I didn't hear any artifacts from the short demo.
Thanks again for your hard work!
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I have been fooling around with various versions of this comparo for a couple of weeks and initially I used the NT4 for the powered mic - but the NT4 cost about twice what I paid for the Vixia!! These Canon camcorders are seriously cheap (grin).
Avoiding artifacts in the Vixia audio was a big part of the fooling around. It would be wonderful if Canon would give a detailed description of the operation of the audio, but of course they don't. In my fiddling I found that somewhere between 10 and 20 on a 100 scale, the Vixia started "messing" with the audio. Not very scientific, but I ran out of patience and when I found a more or less sweet spot I just went with it.
Fran