Sony V1P Audio Problems

[myonlineportal]

hi all i recently met with a problem on my v1p

I had 2 mics hooked up for a recording.

Mic 01 is a clipon for the speaker

Mic 02 is a stand mic on the floor for asking questions.

Problem with this set up is that on video and on recording site ,

my mic 01 appears on hard left only
and my mic 02 appears only on hard right.

Which i find this stupid ....

no previous encounter before.
I was using this alright with 02 mics in use appearing in the centre
or did i forget it ?
Given 02 XRL inputs
why it appears to be in such with i select to use 02 xlrs.

It's really stupid. especially if i have 2 speakers .

1 would appear on left one appearing on right.

when zoom in to speaker A, his voice is still on left.

any v1p users to hlp contribute ?

 

[jaegersing]

I'm not familiar with V1P but I thought that recording each mic to separate channels is the best option. When you edit the video you can adjust the levels independently if they are on separate channels, and of course you can use the pan setting to adjust the position of the audio from left to right or anywhere in between.

Maybe what you are missing is how to mix the 2 channels for monitoring on headphones?

 

[chanxj]

in some dv decks, u can select whether to mono mix down the 2 channels i think.

 

[myonlineportal]

definitely...

it creates an additional step for us to pan or mixdown them again.
don't know if this is usual for cameras with 2 xlr inputs

but even if sony wants to build the camera this way,
shouldn't they include an option as well for users
to choose 2 mics being recorded onto 1 channel.

This option is not available though on the camera itself.
but there, they give 2 xlr and never add this function.
felt cheated by this.

but there again not sure if i'm correct or wrong.
is the camera damaged or did i never notice this when i started using it.
any v1p users to verify this ?

 

[DXNMedia]

definitely...

it creates an additional step for us to pan or mixdown them again.
don't know if this is usual for cameras with 2 xlr inputs

but even if sony wants to build the camera this way,
shouldn't they include an option as well for users
to choose 2 mics being recorded onto 1 channel.

This option is not available though on the camera itself.
but there, they give 2 xlr and never add this function.
felt cheated by this.

but there again not sure if i'm correct or wrong.
is the camera damaged or did i never notice this when i started using it.
any v1p users to verify this ?

Hi,

Pardon my asking but is this the first time you're handling a professional camera?
This is definitely the first time I hear a complain about a feature in a pro camera that most professionals need.

It is the industry standard, and at your best interest to record to individual channels.
If you need to mixdown both mics to 1 or both channels, you need an external audio mixer.
If you need to monitor both channels as a mono mix, choose Ch1 + Ch2 in your Audio Monitor submenu.
If you need to go through editing or post production, just make both Ch1 & Ch2 tracks to mono output or pan both tracks to center.

If you mix both mic sources into one channel or both, there will be more problems in post if your location mix isn't done properly. (eg. Ch1's mic is louder than Ch2's mic, and the talents cross talk and overlaps into each other's dialogue)


Even if you use internal on-board stereo mic, channels are recorded independently L mic goes into Ch1 and R mic goes into Ch2. If you plug in only one external mic, then you have a choice to feed the input signal to both Ch1 & Ch2.
:thumbsup:

hope this clarifies your queries.

 

[myonlineportal]

Hi,

Pardon my asking but is this the first time you're handling a professional camera?
This is definitely the first time I hear a complain about a feature in a pro camera that most professionals need.

It is the industry standard, and at your best interest to record to individual channels.
If you need to mixdown both mics to 1 or both channels, you need an external audio mixer.
If you need to monitor both channels as a mono mix, choose Ch1 + Ch2 in your Audio Monitor submenu.
If you need to go through editing or post production, just make both Ch1 & Ch2 tracks to mono output or pan both tracks to center.

If you mix both mic sources into one channel or both, there will be more problems in post if your location mix isn't done properly. (eg. Ch1's mic is louder than Ch2's mic, and the talents cross talk and overlaps into each other's dialogue)


Even if you use internal on-board stereo mic, channels are recorded independently L mic goes into Ch1 and R mic goes into Ch2. If you plug in only one external mic, then you have a choice to feed the input signal to both Ch1 & Ch2.
:thumbsup:

hope this clarifies your queries.

Hi DXN

Thanks for your answers

yes my first time handling a pro camera,
i handle post production aspect.
also do little shooting though.

If I can monitor both channels as a mono mix and choose Ch1 + Ch2 in the Audio Monitor submenu, i won't be starting this thread.

I understand
with ch 1
recording input 1 will be on channel 01 and recording input 2 will be on ch 02
with ch 1+2
recording input 1 will be only active and recording onto both ch1 and ch2

the problem now lies on the v1p is that
it appears input 1 on left on my headphones and input 2 on right on my headphones.
after trying to set them linked or seperate and going through all mixdown functions it doesn't work.

Is this normal ?

There's no settings on the camera that i could switch both channels for mixdown into mono when i capture the video back onto my system.

I've sent my camera back to sony.

Sony claims there's no such function on this camera that does that.
and they claim only this camera with 02 xlr does not has this function of panning and mixing them down in mono .

Other models bearing 02 xlr inputs are able to do it.

Pardon me for that.
I'm just getting information from other v1p users and other similar models with 2 xlr inputs

if this information is correct or my camera was abnormal.

if it's true that this model does not have the mixdown function.
then all i can do is to accept it and claim from sony that how come this function is being taken away from this particular professional camera type whereas the feature is available on other cameras.

i guess other v1p users or other sony camera users with 02 xlr inputs can help verify this problem...
do appreciate any kind help