Whats a good way to video tape with high quality sound?

[imported_Ziggy]

I need to make a video tape for a piano competition appliaction. I was thinking of recording the piano seperately with good equipment, and then synching it up with the video (of the same performance) from a normal camcorder. How feasible do you think this is?


Here is a link to where I originally asked this on a piano forum Looky here

Thanks!

 

[MichaelD]

You would be surprised at the sound quality a modern DV camcorder has. Have the camera close to the piano and the room QUIET. That's the most important thing.

If you try to dub the sound separately, they WILL notice and think you're cheating. Any musician can tell an overdubbed/dubbed/lip synched performance. I can, and I'm not even that good of a guitar player.

 

[pulse8]

You can record both at the same time, just use your hands as a clapboard and clap on screen before each take. Then just sync up the claps and everything that follows should be fine.

 

[woowoo]

Use SMPTE Timecode
Slave the audio recorder (DAT Multitrack) to the video tape machine.
This is the only "Real" way to do it.