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.

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