It's quite unfortunate, because Hal shares really important things. We're fundraising right now to get a better quality videocamera than just using a smartphone, which is what we can afford right now. I'll work on getting a transcript of this and post it here.
Does anyone here have an experience with video recording, and could recommend a quick and cheap (I imagine under $50 and within a week) solution that would make the sound quality better by an order of magnitude (not necessarily perfect)? Or is the problem other than hardware? For example the distance of the microphone, noisy room, bad audio card, bad settings... I don't have experience with sound recording and processing.
Here is a review of a microphone that costs about $30, and the quality of the sound feels good enough.