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Markers
It is often useful to mark one (or more) points in a recording for ease of reference
during later production and editing. You can add markers to FlashMic recordings in
REC mode, while the recording is being made.
The markers are ‘data flags’, which are embedded in the sound file at the appropriate
point. They will appear as onscreen markers when the downloaded sound files are
later loaded into a sound editing package. The markers are written to the sound file
with both linear and compressed recording formats.
FlashMic markers are recognised by a number of professional editing applications,
including Cool Edit Pro, Adobe Audition, Sound Forge V4 and above. Note however,
that editors can currently only read markers in sound files recorded using the linear
recording modes.
A marker is added whilst recording by a short press on the REC button. (Note that
a long press activates the REC LOCK function in REC mode). The LCD display briefly
displays MARKER. As the marker is purely a data flag within the sound file, no further
indication of its presence will be apparent until the resulting file is loaded into an
editor.
Deleting a Track
If an erroneous or otherwise unwanted or unusable recording is made, it may be
deleted from the FlashMic’s memory to save memory space.
Deletion of tracks is performed via the FlashMic menu system. See Delete Menu,
page 22 for full details on how to delete a track.
File Transfer
Typically, you will use your FlashMic ‘in the field’ to capture a number of different
recordings. The resulting sound files will need to be downloaded from the FlashMic
into a computer at some point for further evaluation, editing, deletion, or other
treatment before they can be broadcast or otherwise made useful.
In many organisations, the process of file transfer may be performed by someone
other than the person who made the recordings. It is possible that a FlashMic may
have been used by more than one recordist. Or it may happen that one recordist
may use more than one FlashMic during a day of field recording. Thus is it important
that any log that has been kept during the recording should be referenced during the
transfer process so that files can be correctly identified and attributed.
There are two methods for transferring sound files from FlashMic to a computer.
• Via the FlashMic Manager software supplied with FlashMic.
• Direct transfer.