Recording Just Audio using a camera

Hello,
I need to record just dialouge to be burned onto a an audio cd, I just wanted to make sure I understand the process. The only available mic is the one on the camera, which is pretty good, so i can just record someone talking onto a tape using the mic on the camera, and then import that into fcp and then import that audio into soundtrack where i can tweak it and then open its aiffs in itunes and convert them into m4a or mp3 or whatever and then burn that onto a cd? Does this sound like the correct way to go about this? I'm a newbie to most of this stuff. Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!

As long as you can put up with the sound of your camera's drive mechanism whirring away in the background, this will be OK.
But you'll get a far better result if you can move (even a cheap) mic a few feet away from the camera.
Andy
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