Video and Binaural Audio

Victor Engel wrote:

Markr041 wrote:

burkek wrote:

The Roland CS-10EM binaural earbuds - which I believe is what was used for this video - are far from ideal in representing binaural sound. The mics are outside the ear instead of at the bottom of an ear canal, which is where they should be. Also, the mic preamp on the Hero 11 is, well, consumer. This Hero + Roland solution is portable, yes, but you get what you pay for. The audio is basically stereo, and the video is akin to smartphone video.

You seem to have missed the point about video - it should be interesting. Action cams open up possibilities for interesting shots that cannot be produced by even the best professional cameras. Congratulations on having posted the most boring video probably ever in this forum - 15 minutes of flowing water!

Relatedly, you criticize not how a video looks or sounds but criticize the equipment used as not being ideal. Nevermind the content.

Umm - what is the thread about? Isn't it about binaural recording equipment? Content interest is irrelevant. It's the sound quality that's relevant.

No, it's about binaural equipment *for video.* This is a video forum. The sound equipment has to be suitable to the video that is taken. The equipment touted by the guy is not suitable for any video but static one-shot video. It requires either two people to carry the equipment if moving around or one if the aim is simply set up one long shot. Binaural dummy head mics could not be used for any of the posted videos in this thread, for which I was the OP. Sound for video, not just sound.

It is fine to learn about this quite specialized audio equipment, however limited its use, and even to point out the theoretical limitations of in-ear binaural mics, but what is gratuitous is criticizing equipment because it is less ideal than eqipment totally unsuitable for the videos posted. It would be like saying a 5 x5" graphics camera would give a better quality image posted as a comment on a skiing video taken by a helmet-mounted action cam. Oh look, my video of a sunset with my 5x5 camera has better quality than your motorcycle video!

Well, this guy posts a 15-minute static clip of a river and says the audio is better than the multi clip moving camera videos of people, trains, cars, etc. because he is using a 10-pound mounted mic array. Gee.

And I pointed out the irrelevance of his audio equipment for most video, in particular the posted videos in this thread, but of course more generally.