The Basic Audio Setting on a Canon XH A1

"Now I'm going to talk a little bit about your audio basics on your XH A1. First off, and this is assuming that you're using your on-board microphone and don't have any kind of external mics. connected, just talking about setting up audio with it. Right here, you have this little audio level and you can set it to 'A' or 'M'. 'A' is automatic, so if you're into just using just automatic settings and you don't want to worry about setting anything yourself, go ahead and switch it to 'A' and then the XH A1 will automatically adjust when the volume gets lower or higher. You can see some levels, over here, on our little power dial there's actually a little display right here with some information. Battery and levels. You can see, right now, where my levels are falling right at this twelve, right here. That's a pretty decent level. I think the XH A1 is keeping it right about there because that's pretty much your basic audio level. The other thing is we can switch it to manual by switching it to the 'M', and now the channels of audio are controlled by these dials right here, and you're controlling left and right, channel one and two, left and right being stereo. You see, as I move the dial up we completely lose the channel one over here. You can move the dial all the way down, like this, and you get much louder audio, it actually gets pretty overblown. If you set them manually you'll want to do like a microphone test where you try to get the loudest level you're going to be hearing on your camera and then set the dials appropriately. But, if you don't want to worry about it and you scared that there's going to be a lot of low sounds and a lot of loud sounds wherever you're going, you might just switch it to auto and leave it on that. Those are your basics of setting up your audio on the XH A1."