This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Audio capture off-site

Monday, May 12, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Audio capture off-site

Professionally, I use Source Connect. This provides roughly 256 kbps AAC quality audio in real time. It costs some bucks, and both parties have to have it (and have their firewalls configured to allow this traffic). But it works fairly well, as long as there's decent bandwidth overhead. A lower budget would be to use Skype or a land line call, but somehow have the originating party (the source you want to record) record themselves on their system and post the file to you once it's done. That requires a lot of instruction which isn't always optimal. Then you can go lower quality and use Skype, and you record the incoming audio on your end (using AudioHijack or SoundFlower/Audacity).

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Lou Wirth loutv@mindspring.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I have a client who is a global software company and they are doing awards for employees. They want to do a video on the winners. 11 winners scattered around US and a few in India, etc. The producer would like to capture each winner introducing themselves and then answering a few questions. This audio would run under stills we cut together. She is asking for the best way to do this. My first concern it the quality of the mic so I suggested to be sure each has a decent usb mic to plug into the computer. Then I am a bit lost as too best capture method for voice in a live chat situation. Skype? We don't need video so is there a good way to connect audio using computers and then be able to capture the chat?

thanks

Lou
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