04/15/2016: Storytime Pup - Crystal Clear Sound

     I have already discussed how and why I chose the Blue Yeti microphone.  It was a compromise between quality and price.  The Nikon video camera has a pretty decent microphone, but still not the quality I was looking for.  Also, I will not be recording the audio and video at the same time.  Why?  Well, if I tried to read the children's books with a big puppy dog head on, it would sure come out pretty muffled :-)  So, I will be recording the audio first, using the blue yeti in a fairly sound proof area I have set-up.  I also learned how to eliminate the background noise footprint using the Audacity recording software.
     Once I have the audio recorded for a book, I will get the video shot ready and I will play the audio as I "act out" the video portion.  The Storytime Pup costume does not have a moving mouth.  So, it will be mostly head, hand and body gestures to match the story.  Then I import the audio and video together into Sony Vegas and sync the pieces together.   Then drop in some light music in the background to round it out.  I will be doing the first iteration of this process this week.  Fingers crossed :-)

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