Sync Sound

Sync Sound

Sync sound is sound that is in time (in sync) with the picture. You can do this in one of two ways. You can do this with either a single system or a dual system. The single system requires the microphone to be connected to the camera. Although this doesn't work on DSLR as the sound quality is not high enough due to the sound files being too compressed. However when using an XF100 the single system sync sound is a good option as the quality is of a good standard and it saves time in post production as the sound and image are already in sync. The other option, a dual system, requires a zoom H5 recorder. Using this you will record the sound and sync it with the image during post production. To make this easier a clapper board should be used so that the editor knows if they need to search for a sound file to sync up or not.

For our Record Junkee documentary we decided to use both the single system and the dual system. We used the riffle microphone plugged into the XF100 as a single system and we used lapel microphones plugged into the zoom H5 as a dual system. This way if anything went wrong with one of the recordings we would have a back up option. We also had two tracks to chose from so that we could chose the one with the highest quality to make the best documentary we could.