Video recording equipment

[Alison Henry]

We are currently collecting spontaneous and elicited language from SLI
children. Video (camcorder) recording helps transcription by recording
the context and ongoing action, but separate high quality audio
recording equipment (directional microphone) is also being used to gain
the sound recording quality required for accurate transcription, since
stardard video recording does not seem to produce high enough quality
sound. However, synchronising the playback can be difficult. Does anyone
know of any combined video (camcorder) and high quality audio recording
systems which allows simultaneous recording and playback of sound and
picture (but that doesn't involve long trailing wire between video and
microphone)?

Karen Brunger and Alison Henry