With one or two two HD video tracks, it does a reasonably good job of providing real time preview, though there was usually a brief gap in the audio after starting. The one with 5 HD tracks it tried, but, I couldn't call it successful. Especially with more content, you have to be a bit patient, as it occasionally gets unresponsive, and it is not a native windows look/feel application. I'm sure I've only scratched the surface of it's capabilities with the four videos I did with it.
As far as the format the camcorder uses stick with a tape format..... How many of us still have 8 track tapes, cassette tapes and Beta/VHS tape that are still good??
Hard drive cameras you have the problem of archiving your video... Do you buy terrabites of storage or copy the video to a DVD???? DVDs are not sutiable for long time storage... CD rot sets in....
DVD cameras you have the same problem of long time storage.... CD rot
Also what is used the most for long term storage of computer data..... TAPES
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Thanks to those "lightheads" that recommended the MovieMaker program that was already on my Windows XP machine. I used it yesterday to manage all my videos that I made this Christmas. Was able to mute the audio from the camera video and add the song from my PC. Worked great and the sound is so much better. Now on to getting a new digital camcorder for better video.
I'm use to editing on high-end systems. I tried Windows MM and let me tell you, I gave up. Went ahead and bought Avid Xpress Pro and now I'm back in business.
When I exported my movie out, I used quicktime codec configured to 720x486. My video's didn't turn out bad on youtube.
Mountainwxman wrote: I'm use to editing on high-end systems. I tried Windows MM and let me tell you, I gave up. Went ahead and bought Avid Xpress Pro and now I'm back in business.
When I exported my movie out, I used quicktime codec configured to 720x486. My video's didn't turn out bad on youtube.
William,
I saw your videos on YouTube and I agree - the quality is pretty good. Just curious as to how large your files end up when exporting? I experimented with different output format and it seemed Quicktime files were much larger than wmv files with approximatey the sames settings. I'm using Avid Liquid (base edition). From reviews I've read, the interface is a little quirky as compared to othe NLE's. But it works fine for me with the limited amount of editing I do. When I finally make the jump to a hi-def camera, I'll probaly upgrade to something like you have.
Mark... my files were pretty large. Silver Bells: 872 meg, TSO Christmas Eve: 397meg. Avid Liquid pretty good. I have the older version 5.5 which was Pinnacle Liquid.
Decided to jump into Avid Xpress Pro so I can edit HD later on and it has the same interface as the newscutters at the TV station.
The problem with those large files, it took forever to upload them but the quality is outstanding.
Regarding YouTube video quality, I discovered a video hosting site that allows you to upload your video as HD, currently, only 720p, but the quality looks a lot better than YouTube. Richard H. recorded one of his videos in HD and uploaded it to the site as well (that's where I found out about it). The only issue right now, is you are limited to 500MB of uploaded video a week, so you may run into the bottle neck, if you try and upload all your LOR sequences at one time. It may have to spread across 2 or 3 weeks, depending on how large your videos are.
This video was limited to 2000kB/s, and is an AVI or MOV file, if I remember correctly. It was recorded using a Sony HDR-SR1 camcorder, and the video was deinterlaced, and scaled to 720p, prior to uploading.
You'll notice that the video does have a slight grain to it, which I think is due to this camcorder not being 3CCD, it also could be due to the compression, since it is AVCHD to begin with... This video file is around 150MB, IIRC.
