Re: Clean audio is missing from recent video shoot!

How were you monitoring the live event? Were you using the headphone output on your camera? When you were recording did you notice two different levels on your cam's audio meters? I've experienced two different circumstances for this type of problem. The first is you are hearing the clean feed but not recording it. The other is the camera is not playing it back out. If it is a playback issue you can try internal playback setting on your cam. Try L/L or R/R or Stereo and see if any playback the clean audio. You might want to also check the settings for record. Most cams can be set to plug into say channel one but record to both. If that were the case and channel one was the shotgun you may not have recorded the clean audio. Good practice to playback some sound check before a critical event. Another possible fix is to ask the audio tech's who operated the board if they recorded the mix. If so, use it.

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