Audio from Mixer into Camera

[yolojasdeep]

I am trying ro record an event at my church. I want to have the audio through the mixer go into my camera mic input. My church has a Yamaha MG12XU Mixer. I have a Canon EOS 60D. I was wondering if I could use XLR female to Aux adapter [link removed per forum guidelines] and plug it into the audio output (the speaker output) on the Mixer. I want to record the event through my camera and have the audio come through the microphones which then go through the mixer and go to the Camera. I know that I can blow the camera so I need to know what to buy so a lot of energy doesnt go through the camera and break it. I need to know what type of resistor to buy or something that can decrease the energy. I need to know by this Sunday. Thank you.

[Waddizzle]

You're trying to do it backwards.  You should be combining the audio and video in post-processing, not at real time, so that you can adjust the levels of each signal.  Use an external recorder, not the camera, too.

[kvbarkley · Accepted solution]

As long as you use the line level output, not the "Speaker" output, you should be fine. Never ever use the speaker output.

One of these would work too:

[link removed per forum guidelines]

You used to be able to get them at radio shack, sigh.

[yolojasdeep]

Could you please tell me the name of the wire you are reccomending. Your link got blocked out.

[kvbarkley]

Just google at amazon for line level to microphone adapter - it is all in one cable.