Hi everyone, thanks for the responses and my apologies for not returning until now. I took a nice long weekend and I do not do any forum stuff during my weekends
I'm not set on using the Ipad, I've just been curious about its use. I have a good friend who has a very successful podcast and livestream thing going on, not to mention youtube content, and he's recently migrated to Ipad instead of his DSLR which shocked me. So I was thinking maybe it's a good idea, but now I'm thinking not. I only have the Ipad because of my wife anyways. She's an artist and does graphic design work as a day job, so outside of an apple watch I've got all the apple products at my disposal lol.
There were a few suggestions and comments about mixing and post work. Not really what I'm looking to do. My original intent was to simply export a video that had good audio quality on it. The more I think about it, I'm okay with matching audio to video in post. I'm experienced in doing it. Frankly I was just wanting a lazy solution. I'm not saying I'm giving up on being lazy, lol, but I am okay with going a more traditional route. Probably the simplest solution here is a decent interface straight into my macbook.
But this is where I'm trying to figure things out. Why would I plug a couple microphones into an interface, and send that interface into my macbook via usb-to-lighting adapter, just to pair the audio with a video I shot on another device, when I could just use that interface to send the audio directly into the device capturing the video. It would make sense if I wanted to do complex editing and make sound decisions in post, but pre-mixing two mics really isn't that difficult. I might get blasted for this comment, but I feel like if you can't get a good sound with two microphones and a pair of headphones before you hit the record button, there isn't much you're going to do in post anyways. I know that's very generalized and ignores a lot of other variables. I'm aware of them, but I do think a lazy approach could save time and effort and accomplish the same result. To sum it up, I still have some mulling to do. Thanks for your inputs.