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Introduction to the Zoom H4n

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Introduction to the Zoom H4n

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Hi, my name is Rich Harrington. >> And I'm Robbie Carman. >> Welcome to this week's episode of Video Gear Weekly. Rob, you know, the Zoom H4N. >> Yeah. >> Venerable. Been around for a long time. Love it. >> Yeah, I mean, in the days of sort of the DSLR revolution, at the start of it people kind of quickly realized that their DSLR's did not do one thing particularly well, and that was record audio. So therefore, they started looking for alternatives and that meant an external digital audio recorder, and the Zoom H4n and others like it is made you know, by task scan and others out there kind of in this form factor were really, really popular because it provided sort of sort of hard disk recording. That's really hard disk. >> Right. >> But to an SD, you know SD card and that kind of thing, also depending on the model including the zoom here, we also had built in microphones. So you have another way of getting audio in. This of course meant that you had to sync it up post and stuff but…

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