| What others have said. I did one of these things when I was younger. What you need is to forget the lav's, _HIRE_ a 2 track field mixer (t.ex SQN) for the days you'll need it, hire two boomboxes for the boom operators (I assume cans, poles and microphones - try cardiods instead of shotguns! - you already have) and then hook boom 1 on track 1 and boom 2 on track 2. Send the 2-track output of the mixer into the camera. You are not yet on the level to worry about AD/DA conversions or the sound quality of camera as a recorder.
On camera, take off automatic level compression (or whatever it is called), set recording for the best option possible and check that the setting are still on every now and then and especially when the camera is turned on and off. Get a long headphone cable extension and listen the output from the camera.
Then you dont have to worry about anything but to get the best sound physically; Which you should concentrate the most in the location youre in.
In post you don't need anything else but Digitranslator (to open OMF's picture department will be sending) and for master limiter Masseys L2007, because Maxim isn't great. L2009 is a bargain and you can use it for free to begin with, altho then it doesn't remember settings (write them on the comment field). Everything you need for post comes in with the PT. For this kind of a work you can easily live with the eq's and compressors Digidesign provides and you don't necessarely need DV toolkit, not yet at least.
Then when you have recorded and posted a few episodes you see better what you'll need. Maybe you need to get the lav's and timecode after all, and then you can replace your field mixer with 744 for example. |