My digital digital camera distorts the audio when recording videos

[5F6-A]

Any vol higher than conversation level is a big no-no.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mgcrsw0bFA

This was a  tiny 5 watt amp at half volume. Awful and useless... any idea how can I change the camera settings to stop the horrid digital clipping?

The camera is a Fujifilm Finepix J110w

:(

[38thBeatle]

I don't know about your camera but with mine I get similar poor results and I put it down to the fact that the emphais is on images and visuals.  I tend to think that an off camera mic is best- the built in ones seem, to me, to be a bit on the cheapo side. My opinion based on my uisage of digital cameras. In fact I am thinking of getting one of those digital cameras with decent audio-there is a Zoom one but a friedn has one and the video isn't that great but I beleive there is a new one coming out(it may already be out) that is well specified with both video and audio.

[5F6-A]

thanks for the response. Yeap... the camera is not bad at all for a camera (for a now 4 years old piece of equipment)  but I have to resign myself to the fact that I won't be able to make videos to illustrate 'tone'. I was getting a really good tone in the room but the recorded version is very poor with the nasty clipping going on. Very disappointed. My mobile is a Blackberry Curve so no joy there either... being poor is no fun.

 

[JDC]

Sounds like mic distortion to me, you can move it further away from the amp or turn the amp down, the only other solution is to get a better quality mic

[gwEm]

yes, i was wondering this. doesn't your camera have some kind of audio input, so you can use another mic?

[5F6-A]

Nope. IT's designed to capture conversation level volumes.