We recommend Rode microphones as we’ve used them ourselves and can vouch 1000% that they are nothing but aural orgasm-inducing microphones to capture your audio with. Most cameras will have a built-in microphone and when you record video the audio automatically records and syncs to that clip - which means you don’t need to do anything but copy that footage from your SD card to your machine and start editing! However, the built-in mics in most cameras are atrocious! For anyone looking to get clean usable audio that will not make your audience storm out of the room punching a drywall, you’ll need to use an external microphone. If you’re new to filmmaking or videography then you might be asking yourself, doesn’t the audio from my recording automatically sync to my video? Why on earth would I need to do this manually? Very good questions, if we do say so ourselves. There are a couple of different ways video editors can sync their audio to their video and we’ll be explaining them both in this article. So, how do you prevent this from happening? The simple answer is by synching up your audio to your video. But if your audio just simply doesn’t match up to your video, then you’ll be eternally doomed (or get really bad feedback from your audience).
They’ll have a harder time forgiving bad audio.
