<p>Many cameras have an audio monitor jack and audio VU meters. Check your manual.</p>
<p>Matt<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2012 9:30 AM, "Braddock Gaskill" <<a href="mailto:braddock@braddock.com">braddock@braddock.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:42:35 -0800 (PST), Lan Dang <<a href="mailto:l.dang@ymail.com">l.dang@ymail.com</a>><br>
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> My video is in AVCHD format and chewed up about 7 GB on my SD card. Let<br>
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> me know if you can deal with that or even with MTS files. I won't<br>
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have<br>
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> any time in the next week or so to fuss about video conversions and<br>
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> transcoding.<br>
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Maybe I can copy it at the next HAK meeting.<br>
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> PS If we want to be serious about recording and posting SGVLUG<br>
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> presentations to the web, we may need to be more organized and consult<br>
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with<br>
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> the experts on the mailing list on an appropriate setup to save us this<br>
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> pain in the future.<br>
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I'm pretty certain that the audio failure comes from operator error - the<br>
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mic wasn't turned on. I had tested it just before the presentation by<br>
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recording and playing back and it was working at that time. Either I<br>
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turned it off before handing it to David, or it was accidentally turned off<br>
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when David put it on.<br>
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I need to devise a way to monitor what the mic is outputting through<br>
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headphones so that I can confirm it is working. Any ideas short of building<br>
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a small splitter/amp circuit?<br>
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I'm still considering recording meetings as just a fun experiment with my<br>
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new camera.<br>
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-braddock<br>
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