beck wrote:Just use the camera app that is on your ipad from the beginning! It has a video recorder too. It works!
Thanks, I didn't realise that the camera app had a built in video recorder. In my defence, :-) I don't normally use an iPAD, or iPhone, it's my wife's, she uses it for e-mail and the kindle app.
I think I'm getting somewhere now. I've just recorded a couple of 35 second clips and they are about 45MB each, compared to a 1m35s clip recorded using the app I downloaded which was about 8MB. Clearly a huge difference in quality. However, next problem I need to overcome is that I have a super slow broadband connection and it looks like it will take about 6 or 7 hours to upload these two files, so clearly not very practical.
Not defeated though. I have a microphone that I plug into an external sound-card for A-D conversion which then connects to my laptop via USB, that I use occasionally with REW (Room Equalisation Wizard). I could make reasonably high quality, lossless, audio only recordings, which I can keep and use for my own evaluation purposes, but also use the lossless file to create a high bit-rate mp3 version for uploading. I reckon this would still be higher quality than the audio embedded in a video clip but much smaller file sizes to upload.
That's something I'll look at investigating tomorrow night.