hughshouse wrote:I am an audio producer, engineer & performer in the acoustic Americana music world. I have been active in these endeavors for more than 40 years and as a well equipped studio owner have more than enough bells and whistles to deliver slick post production product from multi track capture from the pre's of my console. In the audio world the two mix that is generated direct from live performance seldom meets the bar of acceptance for well mixed recordings. This is the primary reason most of the U-Tube music clips are pure crap regardless of any on board recording equipment. The only expectation I have for video equipment is visual quality and reasonable work flow. Video and audio are clearly two different worlds and the sophomoric notion that both tasks can be mastered in one small package is well beyond the pale.
I'm a graduate of IAR and studied audio engineering. I've produced, engineered and performed with major label artists. This has nothing to do with the fact that the audio on this camera, in its current state, does not even meet the standard of consumer grade camcorders.
I purchased this camera for a specific duty that requires quick turnaround times, and decent audio. With audio meters and a flat response you can easily pull respectable audio from any unit quickly and painlessly. I'm not shooting feature films, if I was I would go for an Arri, Red or Sony that is more stable and costs several times more than the BM line.
I purchased the BMCC thinking it would save time on non critical green screen work and generally make things faster because it's recording in an easy to edit format. This is all canceled out by the fact that I either have to shoot separate audio, or spend time in post correcting the in camera audio.
Who would have thought that the audio would be an issue for over a year and a half now? It has balanced inputs and doesn't even have audio meters...come on! Not only that, but at line level set in the camera you have to turn up the volume (in camera) so high the signal needs to be denoised heavily and the low end is basically absent (even with a decent preamp). This is basic stuff here, just give us meters, a flat response (without dc offset issues) and proper line level gain.
Plus there are other issues that haven't been addressed with this camera and BMD refuses to communicate because it's supposedly not their policy to talk about things before they're released. Well, it's funny they don't have a problem announcing and taking pre-orders for cameras and missing release dates by almost a half year. So I don't want to hear this nonsense about not mentioning plans when you have no problem taking money and grossly missing release dates, that just doesn't add up.