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Need some GoPro answers

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Sean Nelson
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Re: Need some GoPro answers

Moondoggy51 wrote:

I've been investigating what to buy to record sermons on Sunday morning in our church. I've received some suggestions that we should look at a GoPro 8 or 9...

...Can anyone share their opinion on the audio quality at about 25-30 feet?

GoPros are designed for action and they have very wide fields of view.  If you're planning on shooting from 25-30 feet, then you're going to be close to the limit at which you can identify who is who in the frame.   That might be acceptable if you're trying to capture a lot of people (a choir, for example), but if you're going for the person delivering a sermon I suspect the result won't be very good.

In terms of audio, you might be OK with something like a choir, but again a sermon is going to be problematic because of room echos and audience noise that will compete.

The golden rule in audio is to get the mic as close as possible to the source of the sound.

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