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Originally Posted by seriousfun  Remember, Sound Follows Picture . |
Exactly. And this is why lots of small indie productions - at least in Germany - think "why should we use a $10,000 audio recorder when our cam cost just 4,000? Why should we pay for a mixing stage when we edit at home on our laptop? Can't we just do the sound there as well, in Final Cut Pro?" (NO WE CAN'T). It's hard to explain to some people in the business that technically bad pictures can be a stylistic device, whereas technically bad sound will just destroy the experience of the viewer. This makes the sound job harder, since one must always argue.
Also, on budget productions shot on film, you have many rehearsals and seldom more than 4 takes (in Germany...), whereas on DV shots..."let's record the first rehearsal too, maybe it's cool" (of course it isn't). Seldom less than 10 takes.
Or "can't we just record the sound directly to the cam?" when the cam is the Canon XL-1 (NO WE CAN'T).
People like my sound for their DV shots. Guess why? I use Nagra 4.2. And when budget is really low, I do some tape compression on location, knowing that there won't be anything worth being called audio post.