I hear the voices, don't you?

Downloaded a sound recording/editing program and gave it a shot. It seems like it'll be very useful! I ran a test where I recorded myself with the camcorder, talking, and at the same time I used the sound recorder to record audio to my PC. Once the video was uploaded to the computer, I synced it with the separately recorded audio, and it was definitely much better than the audio captured by the camera! This is good. I can load this software onto my laptop and plug a mic into it to capture audio while videotaping. It'll be useful for voice-driven scenes. I'll just have to get a good mic with a long cord and figure out a way to use it to capture voices without it being in the shot. Typically this is done with a boom, but who's got a boom?? And I certainly don't have a crew either, to have someone holding/guiding a boom! I could use Robert Rodriguez's method of filming MOS then recording the audio later. It's just a tiny bit harder. After the filming is done, you set up to record audio then have your speakers say their lines again, hoping they do it exactly the same way again, so you can sync it up later. A bit harder, but doable. The audio will be much crisper and more pleasant if it's recorded digitally by a computer and inserted later, rather than recorded by the camcorder. I even have options to make multiple tracks and send one more to the left while another is more to the right, which will be invaluable for doing conversations. Oh, and for when people have to record their lines separately, the easiest thing to do is set up the camcorder to play back whatever scene is being recorded, so they can copy themselves. I'll have to put this one to the test!

I want to put up a pic of my new haircut, but I keep forgetting when I'm at home! And I can't while I'm at work. Ah well... eventually! And I have a new webcam program too, which creates automatic feed to a website. So maybe there'll be an ENP Webcam site someday! "Ya, this is where all the work gets done. Yes, that's us watching 'Buffy'. We're working... honest!"