On 28 Dec 2004 02:33:54 -0800, (Fabrice)
wrote:

i'm just wanting to get into sound recording for film, and i'm
wondering if anyone can give me a bit of advice for the best way to
get started: i'd like to buy some sort of recorder that i can download
the sounds from onto a mac, so i can practice editing them. i was
thinking maybe a minidisc, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
download the sound from them onto a mac, and they also record slightly
compressed apparently. anyway, if anyone can give me any advice on the
kind of equipment i should be looking at, then please let me know.

You can plug the audio output from a minidisk into a computer, just as
you can any other sound source.

Minidisk is a compressed audio format. But who cares? It's still
pretty good, and this is only for practice, after all.

Do you make films, or are you connected with anyone who does? I
think you'd be better advised to get out "on the job" and see what
needs doing, rather than performing theoretical exercises at home :-)

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