Brad Hurley wrote:We should know in a month or so, although I agree it's odd that they haven't emphasized this in any of their advertising, which makes you wonder whether the final camera will actually have four mics after all. It would be a feature worth advertising, but they've not said anything about it in print or in the camera specs.
They do advertise it as a feature - it's on the "Design" page of the Pocket overview:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... era/design And Grant Petty pointed it out at the NAB announcement when he was pointing out the "vlogging" features (which still strikes me as weird).
I imagine that they are using four mics because so many of the reviews of the original Pocket talked about how terrible the in-camera sound was (is), but that gets back to the designation as a "cinema" camera - when shooting for "cinema", you typically record sound separately.
Even ambient sounds are typically recorded on the external recorder - if you want to make people start to giggle or cough, just start rolling room tone
I have had a project "saved" by in-camera audio (there's a whole story with that) but it sounded terrible compared to when the dual-system audio was working (operator error - like I said, there's a story).