My Camera has audio inputs, and a firewire port. We can just plug and play, right?
In short, yes. The long answer is along the lines of “How good do you want it?” The advent of recording to camera began with field news gathering in the late 1960’s with the CP16 film camera, which included an audio to mag stripe option. This allowed news editors to have reporters reporting in the field with sound, and still have that famous “Film at eleven” tag in their promos. When video cameras carried this tradition on, now known as ENG, it was for the production of news, and the ever tightening schedule of live broadcast. This quickly became a feature of convenience for editors. The concept of synchronizing picture and sound became an unheard-of step in news editing. The studio film industry stayed with the “Double System” approach through present day, by and large, as they realize that there are several advantages, and time is on their side. First, the cameras are designed primarily for image capturing. The vast majority of the electronics and processing are devoted to this, and
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