Olympus C-770 No sound in movie mode

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I bought Olympus C-770 several months ago, and I am quite happy with
the still pictures it takes.

However, the movies are a different matter--when I shoot JPEG movies, I
don't get any sound. According to the on-line reviews, the camera is
capable of 640x480 JPEG with sound. The manual is no help whatsoever.
How do I turn on the sound?

Thanks in advance.

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defective.hamster@gmail.com wrote:
> I bought Olympus C-770 several months ago, and I am quite happy with
> the still pictures it takes.
>
> However, the movies are a different matter--when I shoot JPEG movies, I
> don't get any sound. According to the on-line reviews, the camera is
> capable of 640x480 JPEG with sound. The manual is no help whatsoever.
> How do I turn on the sound?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Hi...

Switch to the movie mode; then press OK to bring up the
top level menu. Choose mode menu, then under the camera
tab you'll see an icon of a microphone. Select on.

Take care.

Ken

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How lucacris. Cameras should have a good printed manuals. I would not buy
a camera that forces me to print out a manual by making me download a pdf.

John

In message <N9ednYXDhOR6U3zfRVn-tA@pipex.net>, "SteveB"
<sbrads@nildramDOTcoDOTuk> wrote:
> With most Olympus cameras, the printed manual you get with the camera is
> very basic and for more detailed info you have to either download a PDF
from
> the Olympus site or it's on a CD that came with the camera.
>

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Lin Chung wrote:
> Defective Hamster wrote:
>> I bought Olympus C-770...when I shoot JPEG movies, I don't get
>> any sound....The manual is no help whatsoever.
>> How do I turn on the sound?
> I played the two sample videos (P7080238, P7050235) in the C-770 review
> on the Steve's Digicam web site....
> Played in QuickTime Player, both of them were OK, with audio too.
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/200 [...] mples.html I also
> played them in VLC Media Player...
> Again, there was not a hint of trouble....
> http://www.videolan.org/ To rule out the issue is not caused by your
> camera, you may like to test
> playing back the two aforementioned videos first.



Just re-read your question. Are you saying you could not record sound while
taking video? Playback of pre-recorded video was alright. My apology if I
had misunderstood your inquiry.

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"SteveB" <sbrads@nildramDOTcoDOTuk> wrote in message
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> Why do you have to print it out?
>
Not to speak for John, but manuals are handy to have when you're out in the
field. I don't always have my laptop with me, but my camera manual is
always in my bag.

--
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defective.hamster@gmail.com wrote:
> Ken Weitzel wrote:
>
>>defective.hamster@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>I bought Olympus C-770 several months ago, and I am quite happy with
>>>the still pictures it takes.
>>>
>>>However, the movies are a different matter--when I shoot JPEG movies, I
>>>don't get any sound. According to the on-line reviews, the camera is
>>>capable of 640x480 JPEG with sound. The manual is no help whatsoever.
>>>How do I turn on the sound?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Hi...
>>
>>Switch to the movie mode; then press OK to bring up the
>>top level menu. Choose mode menu, then under the camera
>>tab you'll see an icon of a microphone. Select on.
>>
>>Take care.
>>
>>Ken
>
>
>
> Thanks. That did the trick...I have sound in my JPEG movies. Now I'm
> off to play with it (unfortunately the dog refuses to bark on camera).
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied to my post.
>
As you have probably discovered ny now the camera does not zoom in movie
mode with sound. I believe it is possible to plug in an external mic to
get sound with zoom.
Also the new M type zD cards seem to have a problem with sound.

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defective.hamster@gmail.com wrote:

>Yup. Just found out that when I use the zoom (since this thing comes
>with 10x optical zoom, why wouldn't I use it?), it becomes a silent
>movie.

Is that also true if you zoom before you start recording?

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Ken Tough