lorin schultz

bigpics said:

The question I've asked others over the years without getting an answer is whether or not once a mic is wirelessly inputted into the phone if it will automatically work with the video camera function to record that input as the video soundtrack.

If by "wirelessly inputted into the phone" you mean via Bluetooth, probably not. I just did a quick test with a pair of Beats wireless headphones. For phone calls the iPhone uses the mic in the headphones rather than the one built in to the phone, but when I recorded a video it used the mic in the phone.

There's still the possibility it might work with a typical wireless mic connected to the Lightning port, but I don't have an adapter to test that.

nick8718 said:

And for those of us without all those dollars or pounds: I’d suggest two things - the internal mic of the iPhone with a cheap 50mm windshield from Amazon or - for single contributor ‘rants’ - the bundled earbuds and their online mic. Both of these come into their own if you’re recording outside. The background atmos does away with the mic limitations and is perfectly ‘broadcast quality’.  At a guess I’d say I’ve used the internal iPhone mic for 80% of the live and recorded pieces I’ve done over the last ten years (at a conservative guess that would equate to about 5000 pieces of radio).

Reporting from the field and producing podcast are two completely different things when it comes to quality expectations though, aren't they? Listeners will tolerate lower production values from news than they will from other genres.

Obviously content trumps audio quality, and if the show is good enough, people will overlook imperfect sound. Bad sound is still distracting though, and it gives listeners a reason to tune out. When it's so easy and inexpensive to do better, why set the bar at it's lowest rung? In the OB van in the middle of a hurricane, sure, use whatever you have on hand. If you have or can easily access better, why would you deliberately compromise the listening experience?

dominikhoffmann said:

Anyone know of a good Bluetooth transmitter with a mic input? My application is to wirelessly record someone wearing a lavalier mic plugged into one of those transmitter, via Bluetooth. Does anybody know of a piece of equipment that can act as the go-between of mic and phone?

Bluetooth has really limited range. Are you sure it would even work for your application?

Why not just use a conventional UHF wireless system? The output of the receiver can be fed into the phone the same way a microphone would.

To answer your question, Denon makes a Bluetooth receiver that would do what you describe. https://www.denonpro.com/index.php/products/view3/dn-200br

davgreg said:

The teal looks tacky. It is subjective, but is as jarring as the ugly nail polish combos tweens and teens wear.

I didn't even get as far as the color combination. I can't stand products that secretly wish they were Christmas trees or flashlights. I don't need a light show, nor do I want to be blinded by a power/activity light that's brighter than a supernova.

cgWerks said:

lorin schultz said:
When you say "such that pros wouldn't use it" are you using the "pro" reference as a quality standard ("good enough to satisfy a pro"), or do you mean another "pro" may want to use your video?

The former. And, I suppose I didn't mean pro in that sense either... just more someone who knows the upsides/downsides of such things who can advise me.

I'm worried that I'll love the speed gain so much I'll start putting everything into the format, via this method, and then discover something like.... oh, well, h.265 is OK, but the way the T2 encodes it does xyz which impacts compatibility, or messes up xyz in some quality/capability way that I haven't caught with my untrained eyes/ears, etc.

It seems fine, but I don't want it to be a situation of sacrificing something important because this is some quick & dirty method.

It's not impossible that could happen, but the odds weigh in your favour by using the T2 preset. You stand a MUCH higher chance of causing compatibility problems by messing around with encoding settings in Handbrake.