USB Mic and DV Camcorder

I'm making movies of my orchestra classes for my website and would like better audio quality than the DV Camcorder mic. Can I use a USB mic, such as the snowball at the same time? I'm recording straight to the hard drive (iMovie HD). Will it accept both the firewire input from the camcorder and usb from the Snowball and put them both into iMovie? Or wil it record two audio tracks? Just wondered if anyone had tried this. If it won't work with iMovie, will it work with Quicktime Pro or Final Cut Express HD? I haven't used either of them, but I have them....I also have Logic Express if that would help with the audio part. I would like to make the movies as painlessly as possible. I'm uploading four movies of about 15 minutes each every week. Thanks for your input.

hey there Mark,
sorry to say you're gonna need a cam that does, or a convertor like the Grass Valley/Canopus ADVC 110. send video out from your cam & use a mic(s) w/ a mixer for sound through the converter out over firewire to iMovie. sound & picture need to move through the firewire cable @ same time, otherwise you'll have major sync issues capturing picture, then sound. iMovie as well as other NLEs will only accept 1 input @ a time, so you can't use USB & FW @ same time for capture.
good luck.

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