Hi guys, today I'm going to talk about how to improve the audio of your videos
it doesn't matter how nice my videos look, if you're not able to hear me you
will probably start watching some other video. The audio quality is extremely
important and you can't simply ignore it it doesn't matter what you film with, it
can be your camera or your phone. Try not to rely on their microphone especially
when you are outside. The built-in microphones of cameras and phones are
built to capture sounds around you. You have seen a lot of YouTubers, including
me, having an external microphone connected to their camera like the Rode
Mic I use, which is great when I talk directly to the camera. I am now going to
switch the audio from my lav mic to this shotgun microphone what you're
hearing right now is the sound captured by the shotgun microphone. you should hear
a lot more echo but keeping in mind room is not sound-proofed. If I remove the
shotgun microphone and use the built-in camera microphone which I'm going to do
it right now you will probably be able to tell the difference. It's not too bad
but not great either. Once I connect the Rode Microphone back you will notice
that as long as I talk directly at the camera
you hear me quite clearly but if I turn my head this side or even other side you
can see the difference can you see. That's a problem with this
microphone. Okay, let's just stop playing with the microphones and switch back to
my lavalier mic. I use this microphone attached to my shirt to ensure the audio
volume and sound are consistent throughout the video. This also helps to
reduce the amount of background noise captured by the microphone and it works
quite well even without soundproofing the room which is usually necessary when using
a shotgun microphone I connect the lav mic to my recorder the zoom h1n and the voice
you're hearing right now is recorded on the zoom. It doesn't matter how far I am
from the camera or which direction my head is moving you should be able to
hear me clearly the zoom h1n is also an amazing tool for recording ambient sound
I like it because it's pretty small and handy I can simply carry it with me
in my pocket. By recording the audio this way you'll end up with an audio
file on an SD card and you can easily transfer it to your computer and if you
are wondering how to put the two files together, the video and the audio clips,
it's actually pretty straightforward. Most video editors allow you to automatically
merge and synchronise the two clips into a single clip. For example, in premiere pro
you can select the two clips you want to merge in the Project panel, select merge
clips choose the option to synchronize the clips based on the audio tracks and
you are done. We also, try to enhance the audio clip quality by applying some
audio effects to our video track like a parametric equaliser and a few other. If
you don't want to spend money on a recorder right now you can just purchase
the lavalier mic and connect it to your phone instead. This way you can be far
away from your camera and you still be able to record your voice. The other
microphone I use for my phone is the SabineTek SmartMike+ it is this
one which is a Bluetooth wireless microphone. You can clip this mic to
your shirt like a lav mic but there is no wire and
it connects with your phone via Bluetooth. Due to Bluetooth latency
your audio can sometimes be a little delay and a slightly out of sync with
your video which is why I only use it with my phone to record my voice
for an Instagram story or short clips for social media. I hope you find
this video useful please let me know how you improve your audio quality in your videos
same as always thanks for watching and
see you in the next video