How do I get sound?

480sparky · Dec 15, 2015

ELHEAPO said:
why would anyone want to listen to the noise of the rotors fighting through the wind i would rather listen to my mrs ranting on about nothing for half an hour!!

GoPro owners in particular seem to have that attitude. For some reason, they seem incapable of muting the audio track.

Donw35 · Dec 15, 2015

happydays said:
It sounds terrible. Here's my P1 just before it crashed in sea. The first thing I would want to do is to get rid of that noise!

wow, that was good flying and video too, did it just go dead ?

HueJorgan · Dec 15, 2015

Ive seen a few P3 videos where the sound is amazing not rotor sound at all but you can hear the birds, those cars passing by and a train crossing a level crossing in the distance for example

How was this done do you think? that's a lot of Foley work or sound dubbing whichever way you look at it? I have had quite a bit of experience of this in the past with other projects and boy it not easy.

Its one of the things I will be looking at when I do my videos, I plan to record ambient sounds when out and about to dub onto the videos.

I was once taught that when you remove ALL original sound from a video clip it feels 'clinical' and the viewer can find it 'false' but doesn't really know why

its a brain thing apparently

happydays · Dec 15, 2015

Donw35 said:
wow, that was good flying and video too, did it just go dead ?

Well, this was in the days before the luxury of FPV. I had just clipped the building and took off again. No inspection of course, sure why would you?

The P1 threw a prop and landed in the sea. I got the GoPro back after three months underwater. Dredged up by mussel fishermen. True story.

ParsnipHysorter · Dec 15, 2015

480sparky said:
GoPro owners in particular seem to have that attitude. For some reason, they seem incapable of muting the audio track.

Indeed, why is it so hard to turn down the volume if you don't want to hear it? Why not have a mic in the camera and the ability to not log audio if you don't want it? Personally I was disappointed when I got my P3 and the videos had no audio, thought I had a setting wrong because I couldn't believe it wouldn't do audio. I love the P1 and P2 videos from GoPro with their propeller whine which you can hear changing according to how hard to machine is working, adds some excitement and a better sense of what the machine is doing... much better then what we have now, which is silence.

JonE5 · Dec 15, 2015

the prop noise from 100 ft away is pretty loud. I cant imagine hearing anything but the props from on board the craft.

ParsnipHysorter · Dec 15, 2015

JonE5 said:
the prop noise from 100 ft away is pretty loud. I cant imagine hearing anything but the props from on board the craft.

Just listen to any of the many GoPro videos taken from the older Phantoms, like the one posted on page 1 of this forum. Your not hearing anything other then the propeller noise but it is fun to hear the variance... and occasionally, the crash! Not that dissimilar from being on a small plane like a Cessna or Piper where all you hear is the engine and propeller noise.

480sparky · Dec 15, 2015

ParsnipHysorter said:
Indeed, why is it so hard to turn down the volume if you don't want to hear it? Why not have a mic in the camera and the ability to not log audio if you don't want it? Personally I was disappointed when I got my P3 and the videos had no audio, thought I had a setting wrong because I couldn't believe it wouldn't do audio. I love the P1 and P2 videos from GoPro with their propeller whine which you can hear changing according to how hard to machine is working, adds some excitement and a better sense of what the machine is doing... much better then what we have now, which is silence.

So..... because YOU like it, everyone else should?

phxbird57 · Dec 19, 2015

Or you can do as we had been. rubber band a mobus or runcam to your hat. talk away. lus you can do a picture with in a picture of the flight with audio

enjoy

John Locke · Dec 19, 2015

happydays said:
It sounds terrible. Here's my P1 just before it crashed in sea. The first thing I would want to do is to get rid of that noise!

Too bad about the tumble into the water.

John Locke · Dec 19, 2015

phxbird57 said:
Or you can do as we had been. rubber band a mobus or runcam to your hat. talk away. lus you can do a picture with in a picture of the flight with audio

enjoy

So what you did here is to simply record ambient sounds and dub it in during the editing process.

penguinmaster · Dec 19, 2015

alokbhargava said:
Problem is not with an app to record, we want sound recording to start with video recording to get best sync.

hello what i do is set up a video camera up in front of the ipod off the remote with a longer cord and talk while it records or sound to

Panther6834 · Dec 19, 2015

mfflyingstudios said:
Hi everyone I can't get any sound from my videos.... Please help...

First off, as explained by others, the P3 doesn't have any sounds capabilities, and, even if it did, all you'd hear is the whir of the motors.

Second...and FAR more important...based on your comments, it's sounding like you're planning on using your drone to spy on people. Get caught, and, depending on the laws (city, county, state, & federal) in your area, I'm fairly certain you won't like the consequences. If u can put 2 & 2 together stop easily, you know law enforcement can, and, considering the new FAA regulations starting in two days, it's safe to assume that more law enforcement agencies will start paying attention to these, any other UAV, forums.

SanCap · Dec 19, 2015

I love the sound my Phantom makes when it crashes on land! Crash
Or sea!

dksteele123 · Dec 19, 2015

Ugh... That was painful to watch. Condolences

phaediouxphlae · Dec 19, 2015

alokbhargava said:
Problem is not with an app to record, we want sound recording to start with video recording to get best sync.

John Decker · Dec 19, 2015

Panther6834 said:
First off, as explained by others, the P3 doesn't have any sounds capabilities, and, even if it did, all you'd hear is the whir of the motors.

Second...and FAR more important...based on your comments, it's sounding like you're planning on using your drone to spy on people. Get caught, and, depending on the laws (city, county, state, & federal) in your area, I'm fairly certain you won't like the consequences. If u can put 2 & 2 together stop easily, you know law enforcement can, and, considering the new FAA regulations starting in two days, it's safe to assume that more law enforcement agencies will start paying attention to these, any other UAV, forums.

Wow. How did you get from 'i don't have sound ' to ' I'm going to spy on people '. I think I missed a few steps

ParsnipHysorter · Dec 19, 2015

phxbird57 said:
Or you can do as we had been. rubber band a mobus or runcam to your hat. talk away. lus you can do a picture with in a picture of the flight with audio

enjoy

I don't want to hear my stupid voice, I want to hear what the drone hears, whirl of motors and all.

ParsnipHysorter · Dec 19, 2015

John Decker said:
Wow. How did you get from 'i don't have sound ' to ' I'm going to spy on people '. I think I missed a few steps

Yeah I'm not sure how that leap was made either. That would be the last thing I would have thought of.

General Chaos · Dec 19, 2015

Panther6834 said:
First off, as explained by others, the P3 doesn't have any sounds capabilities, and, even if it did, all you'd hear is the whir of the motors.

Second...and FAR more important...based on your comments, it's sounding like you're planning on using your drone to spy on people. Get caught, and, depending on the laws (city, county, state, & federal) in your area, I'm fairly certain you won't like the consequences. If u can put 2 & 2 together stop easily, you know law enforcement can, and, considering the new FAA regulations starting in two days, it's safe to assume that more law enforcement agencies will start paying attention to these, any other UAV, forums.

I guess these people are in deep trouble.