Part of this is, in my opinion, a pretty easy question..
Which do you need, better audio equipment or better software? Well, it sounds like you need both. But which do you need
first?
Better audio equipment, hands down.
A camera's built-in mic is pretty much good for shooting home movies of a kid's birthday party, and not much else. If you want to do any serious real project, at
minimum get at least one decent mic. As to whether you need a boom, lavs, hardwired or radio mics, I can't say... I don't know anything about your project or what its audio needs are. But I do know that you will shoot the project
first before you have to worry about editing and post production. And once you record crappy audio, you've pretty much got crappy audio for good... with limited ways to make it better, no matter what software you buy down the road.
You'll be far better off recording good audio in the first place, rather than recording sub-par audio and hoping for the best later. The old phrase "We'll fix it in post" is much better in theory than in practicality.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
