Mic picking up autofocus noises

[Girl01]

Just hooked up my new rode videomic pro eternal mic to my dslr and sound is so good I changed the settings in my camera to turn the camera mic right down to get to of that awful dslr hissing and sound f my voice is so clear however the mic is also picking up the lens focus sounds :/

I only ever use autofocus.

Is there anything I can do about this or am I better of using a manual focus?

EDIT:forgot to add I am using the canon 700d. The noises are fairly subtle sort of sounds like a helicopter in the distance lol

 

[Michael]

I would turn off the autofocus tracking so its only activated manually I cant remember the exact name of the feature but its in the menus somewhere, does the 700 D have a flip/swivel screen so you can see yourself as you record? if so I would buy a remote so you can quickly refocus from a distance.

I use a Hahnel Giga T Pro 2 remote for on the fly focusing during recording and find it much easier, I used to hate focusing manually each time and ending up with blurry videos because its all too easy to move back or forwards a little during recording and mess up the focusing. There are cheaper remotes on the market but this is the one I use:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hahnel-Giga-Pro-Wireless-Canon/dp/B00345XKV4

With that I am able to use my f1.8 lens which looks much better than the kit lens without worrying about going out of focus.[DOUBLEPOST=1416167395][/DOUBLEPOST]Also if you need the auto focus there may be quieter lenses out there, I used to own an STM lens which was meant to be very quiet but I found it got picked up by the camera but there could be silent ones out there now. You could consider buying a 3.5mm extension and mounting the mic on a tripod of its own although the Rode likely will pick up the noise if its loud enough. Id do that any way me as it allows you to bring the mic closer to you but keep it out of frame and the closer the mic the better it sounds I find.

 

[Girl01]

I would turn off the autofocus tracking so its only activated manually I cant remember the exact name of the feature but its in the menus somewhere, does the 700 D have a flip/swivel screen so you can see yourself as you record? if so I would buy a remote so you can quickly refocus from a distance.

I use a Hahnel Giga T Pro 2 remote for on the fly focusing during recording and find it much easier, I used to hate focusing manually each time and ending up with blurry videos because its all too easy to move back or forwards a little during recording and mess up the focusing. There are cheaper remotes on the market but this is the one I use:


With that I am able to use my f1.8 lens which looks much better than the kit lens without worrying about going out of focus.[DOUBLEPOST=1416167395][/DOUBLEPOST]Also if you need the auto focus there may be quieter lenses out there, I used to own an STM lens which was meant to be very quiet but I found it got picked up by the camera but there could be silent ones out there now. You could consider buying a 3.5mm extension and mounting the mic on a tripod of its own although the Rode likely will pick up the noise if its loud enough. Id do that any way me as it allows you to bring the mic closer to you but keep it out of frame and the closer the mic the better it sounds I find.

Thanks for your help, yeah I do have a canon remote which I haven't got round to ever using yet, and my cam has a swivel screen which I use so I will try that

What about if I'm doing a talking video showin people makeup items so sometimes it's me talking other times it's me showing the cam an item of makeup so needs o focus? Can I use the remote then?

 

[Michael]

Thats the times I would use it although you will likely want to make edits at those points when focusing on the makeup so people dont see you refocusing. So it would be you talking about the makeup item and then you showing them it. Something you could do is make two separate clips the first is where you talk about the makeup item and once you are done with that part record a clip of you holding up the makeup item in focus closer but where you cannot see your face etc and then place that clip above for a few seconds just to show the detail of what you are holding. I find that way to be easier at times when showing things to the camera depending on how you want the video to look of course.

Ideally you would have a monitor too to show you clearly when you are out of focus, I want one myself but they cost too much and I would want a big one, the smaller screen doesnt cut it for me at times.

 

[Girl01]

Thats the times I would use it although you will likely want to make edits at those points when focusing on the makeup so people dont see you refocusing. So it would be you talking about the makeup item and then you showing them it. Something you could do is make two separate clips the first is where you talk about the makeup item and once you are done with that part record a clip of you holding up the makeup item in focus closer but where you cannot see your face etc and then place that clip above for a few seconds just to show the detail of what you are holding. I find that way to be easier at times when showing things to the camera depending on how you want the video to look of course.

Ideally you would have a monitor too to show you clearly when you are out of focus, I want one myself but they cost too much and I would want a big one, the smaller screen doesnt cut it for me at times.

That's a good idea I'm going to edit those bits.

Yeah monitors are amazing. I'm the same can't afford it. One youtuber I watch uses her canon software which you can install on your computer/laptop acting as the monitor but my laptops so old that it was really slow and rubbish quality. And my newer macbook doesn't have a cd drive so I couldn't install it lol.

I'll have to get my head around manual focus as I've never actually used it. Hopefully it's not too difficult.

 

[Tarmack]

Another way to handle this would be to mount the mic separated from the camera. The VIdeomic pro doesn't require the hotshoe of the camera, so you could in theory set up a boom pole for the mic. Just a few more inches of distance and not being physically connected to the camera will resolve your issue.