My smartphone is my best camera, but its microphone is not nearly as
good. When recording video where I care about the audio (ex), I’ve
normally
recorded audio and
video separately and then combined them. This works, but is a
hassle. Can we record them together?
An Android phone (likely iPhone too, but I don’t know those) can
record audio from any standard (“class compliant”) USB audio
interface. This may bring up images of spending hundreds of dollars
on professional audio equipment, but if you only need a single channel
and don’t need a preamp (or you already have mixing equipment) you can
use a “USB soundcard”:
I previously made a lot of
recordings with the microphone on the camera just because it was
so much more convenient than combining audio and video from two
sources, but I think I’m done with that.
Android Video with External Microphone
Link post
My smartphone is my best camera, but its microphone is not nearly as good. When recording video where I care about the audio ( ex), I’ve normally recorded audio and video separately and then combined them. This works, but is a hassle. Can we record them together?
An Android phone (likely iPhone too, but I don’t know those) can record audio from any standard (“class compliant”) USB audio interface. This may bring up images of spending hundreds of dollars on professional audio equipment, but if you only need a single channel and don’t need a preamp (or you already have mixing equipment) you can use a “USB soundcard”:
This is a Sabrent USB-C adapter one I got for $7.30 shipped.
While it’s supposed to be possible to use an external microphone with the built-in camera, I couldn’t get it to work. Instead, I used Open Camera:
This is “Settings > Video settings > Audio source > External mic (if present)”, and worked without issue. Here’s an example:
Videography courtesy of Lily
I previously made a lot of recordings with the microphone on the camera just because it was so much more convenient than combining audio and video from two sources, but I think I’m done with that.