Question regarding the Zoom H5

Off The Mark wrote:

JWAR1976 wrote:

Hi all,

I have been seriously been considering getting into video & audio alongside photography at local venues for gigs and I have been considering getting something like the Zoom H5 to connect up to my R5. So that I have a all in one solution for Photo / Video Audio.

Now what I was wondering was, am I able to record say a couple of songs from a band with video, but have audio recorded of the entire performance while I am taking photos, while the H5 is still connected to the camera ?.

ideally what I am looking for is at the end of the gig, I am able to give bands / artists

Photos
Video
Audio tracks

Many thanks

First, I applaud your decision to work with an external recorder. That is often overlooked by people new to videography.

I am not particularly familiar with the H5, unfortunately. Will you be using external mics plugged in to the H5? Or using the built-in mic (capsule)?

Will the camera be mounted on a tripod when you are taking stills? Or will you be roaming around with camera in hand

I assume you can just unplug the audio cable from your R5 if you want to walk around when taking stills and leave the H5 recording audio. But then again, you know what they say about when you assume...

And finally, just so you know, it is generally pretty darn easy to sync externally recorded audio with video in most video editors so that COULD be an option too, unless you really need to upload the video with audio immediately after the gig and won't have time to bring the video (and audio) in to a video editing program.

As much as I love my cameras I know the internal mic isn’t normally the best and so a external would be essential to avoid the tinny type sound.  The camera would be handheld as the venues I shoot in or not that large.