It’s the Moxie Mo’s first time at an attempt to doing a green screen because we’re moving in a week to a new condo so please bare with me.
Audio is one of the most important factors when it comes to your digital life. Whether it’s chatting via iChat or Skype, talking in a video or podcast or even conferencing for your job, if your audio doesn’t sound “right” then all is not well.
Professional microphones can cost a fortune and Lord knows I don’t want to spend $400 of a microphone. Well thanks to Blue Microphone (one of the best companies that make professional microphones), all you need is the Snowflake. The Snowflake, a smaller cousin to the very popular Snowball, is a USB-powered professional microphone that is very inexpensive. The sound quality is phenomenal, as you will see on this episode.
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MM51: The Snowflake (Moxie Prof Microphone) from Jeff McCord on Vimeo
February 6th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Hey Jeff,
Great review of the SnowFlake. It does sound much better. I am going to check it out for our http://www.TalkBowling.com podcast. Our sound right now is not great.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:08 am
How are you combining this with the video from the Flip? In post processing? Do you find it a pain to sync the video and audio?
February 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@John -
Yes, in post processing I have to match up the audio from my Snowflake to the video of my Flip. You’d think it could be a pain but as long as I do a “Testing 1, 2, 3″ at the beginning, it matches up pretty easily. There was a time when I had to redo all of it because I got the audio out of whack!
February 9th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
That’s actually why movies use that clapper board, the thing they hold in front of the camera and say “blah blah blah Take 3″ clap. Help synchronizing the audio and video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapperboard
What program on your Mac are you recording into? Are you using Final Cut Pro in post processing?