I know, I was kid. When I'm ready to go high def, I'll get some new gear. :>
And yes, even at its lower resolution, the video quality of the camcorder will be superior to any smartphone - better lens, for starters, and probably a much higher quality, albeit lower-res, CCD. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Alex Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > The camera is appreciated, James. Seriously. :-) > > If we used a smartphone, I bet the quality would be suckier for one > (digital zoom, vs. lens) and somebody would have had to part with > their cellphone for the entire day. > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:41 AM, James Yeo Paskaruk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I warned em. Also kinda regret giving the camera to skull now ;> > > > > On Jun 25, 2014 1:48 AM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Forgive me for asking, but why didn't someone just tape a smartphone to > a > >> tripod and use that? > >> > >> > >> On 25 June 2014 07:29, Mark Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 24/06/14 09:18 PM, James Yeo Paskaruk wrote: > >>>> > >>>> PCI will be good enough to get the video off this cam, I'm sure. I > >>>> wonder if we could hack the cam into working like a webcam, but with > its > >>>> good CCD and lens and all? It does take good video, just a pain the > arse > >>>> to transfer it... > >>> > >>> > >>> For future reference, yes this can be done with most firewire cameras. > >>> > >>> I've done it -- ran two 24 hour fundraiser marathons at 91 Albert St. > >>> this way -- was glad to never have to worry about tape changing. I > also had > >>> the sound techs put a line out feed from the sound board right into the > >>> camera external mic input with input setting on camera set to line > level so > >>> they could make a live mix from all the different microphones they were > >>> running to the sound board. > >>> > >>> But boy, did I fill hard drive space. These things output great quality > >>> MPEG2 at pretty high bitrate. > >>> > >>> Back in the day when I did this I ended up switching to an insane > >>> pipeline where I had a live down-transcoding happening on the source > >>> computer, that signal put out to my LAN by multicast, and then > different > >>> computers taking that an doing different roles, one archiving to disk, > one > >>> showing this LAN feed for people sitting around on the 2nd floor, and > three > >>> others encoding to three other formats for internet upload (one of > which was > >>> a hacky livestream.com setup that used some cool free software to > fake this > >>> incoming multicast stream as being a "camera" that the proprietary > >>> livestream.com flash stuff could pick up on .....) > >>> > >>> Good times with VLC. > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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