Your investigation toward the purchase of a new camcorder has taken you down many roads. The first road traveled was over the Internet. Down this road you read all of the available reviews regarding the performance and options available for that camcorder that you were considering.
After gathering all the information available you then compiled all the data and entered that information into a comparison table. In comparing apples to apples, you are able to determine which brand had the best performance reviews, came with all of the options that you wanted, who had the best warranty, and which camcorder was the most affordable.
With all of this time and energy invested toward your new purchase, you want to make sure that the recording experience is performed optimally. This commitment not only includes the purchase of your new camcorder, but also the incorporation of the best camcorder microphone to ensure that the accompanying quality of the audio matches the quality of the video.
There are many built-in camcorder microphones available to the consumer. However, in order to select the appropriate camcorder microphone it is important to take into consideration two critical features. These features include the pulse code modulation and the sampling and quantization.
Pulse Code Modulation
The camcorder microphone, found within a digital video camcorder, generally allows for excellent audio playback. This capability is realized through a process called pulse code modulation. This process is a very sophisticated procedure.
Basically, there are two recording methods. The first method captures the extreme level of sound quality. This recording method is known as the 16-bit stereo or two channel style of sound processing. A second recording method that ranks a little bit lower in sound quality, but allows for the use of two stereo conduits, is the two12 bit stereo or four channel style of sound processing
One of the styles of camcorder microphones may be on selected camcorders, but not necessarily. Therefore it is prudent that, if the feature is important to you, you take great care to ensure that one of the styles is built into the camcorder.
Sampling and Quantization
The next integral part in providing optimum audio through the camcorder microphone is the conversion of the sound through the two or four channel camcorder microphone. In a nutshell, when the rating of these two components, sampling and quantization, is higher the corresponding quality and purity of the sound will be realized.
Sampling simply evaluates the sound waves at certain times during the capturing of the sound. These intervals are grouped back together resulting in the audio portion of the captured video from the camcorder. The more frequently this sampling is performed the higher the quality of sound is produced. A good range of sampling runs the spectrum of 32 KHz to 48 KHz. This means that the recorded sound from the camcorder microphone is measures at 32 to 48 times per second.
Quantization then transforms the calculated value into a number that is digitized. These numbers are then stored at either the highest two channel sound quality level, 16 bits, or at the four channel level, 12 bits, of sound quality. The higher the number of bits used to store the audio, the greater the accuracy of mirroring the captured sound.
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