Trying to produce acceptable videos with good audio is not as easy as it looks. One of the issues with making any video in an outdoor setting is capturing good quality audio. If you’ve ever heard videos with the persons voice competing with the sound of wind blowing on the microphone you’ll know what I’m referring to. It’s usually not a good experience when you just want to hear what the person is saying.

I can record a decent video with a cell phone that is for the most part better than any camera I’ve owned in the past. My challenge has been to get the audio without the wind. Usually I try to pick a location where the winds are minimal and rely on the phones microphone. To address the wind issue microphones are equipped with a furry cover that breaks up the wind before it causes sound to be recorded. I’ve been using a Lavalier microphone sometime know as a lapel mic to record the voice overs and other video audio.

I tried to use the Lavalier mic with a wind cover on a levy in the Everglades to record this edition of This Week On HEAR911. With as much furriness as the mic cover had I would have thought there’d be no way wind sounds would reach the microphone. Wrong! The audio was riddled with wind sounds. I’ll have to find another solution. The footage was unusable. That’s why this weeks video is super short.

This Tuesday Animal Rescue Postmortem Volume 2 Number 4 will discuss firefighters extricating a dog from a fence. Then on Thursday we get to see another of the awesome animal rescue photographs from the past. Animal Rescue- A Photographic History Volume 1, Number 10 this week features a cow rescue from flood waters in 1948.

Big Boss- Rescue Chief/Founder

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