A New Wave | HeroX

BY SIMON FRASER | 1 min read

I’ll be honest. I have a problem with sound.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve shot some video only to find out that I hadn’t configured my sound recording device correctly. (Though some of the actors I’ve directed probably can.)

The battery dies. Or the audio feed becomes loosened from one of its plugs. Or my recording levels were too low or too high. And often, I’m too focused on working the camera that I don’t realize the problem until a few minutes into shooting, if I’m lucky. Or worse, once I start editing the video.

This is why I love having a sound recordist. It’s one less thing at which I’m average that I no longer need to worry about.

So you can imagine my thrill to read that some of those crazy kids at MIT have discovered a means to pull audio from a video track by measuring the vibrations of objects on screen that are undetectable to the human eye.

Now if they could just figure out a way to insert a 4K camera into my eye ball, I’d really be a one-man band.

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