<p>I'm recording my summer program auditions this week. I need video for two and audio for two, and I have a computer. I have a professional quality video camera that I bought for its good audio quality. I used it for my video auditions last year and was admitted to my top choices. I will use this camera to record all of my selections. I am wondering if it is okay to simply use one of the programs on my computer (most likely garageband) to separate the video from audio for my audio CDs, or if I should hook a microphone up to the computer and record separately. Should I do different takes for video and audio or the same? Also, for video, do I need a mic, or no? I didn't use one last time and my video turned out fine. I'm auditioning for soprano voice. My top choice (Tanglewood) is audio only.</p>
<p>While the camera may have decent audio, if you want the best audio recording you can get I would suggest recording with a good external microphone either to your computer or to the camera if it can record from an external mic. If you record to the computer, you will save having to split out the audio before making a CD. </p>
<p>If you are setting up all this gear, you might as well record all of your takes to both audio and video. I doubt that anyone will mind the presence of the external mic on the videos and nobody listening to the audio version should be able to tell that you also were using a video camera at the same time.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Never hurts to do a backup, as D3 discovered last week when the sound went wonky on one of her recording devices. Fortunately, the backup (with poorer but still acceptable sound quality) was good enough.</p>