Thanks for appreciating the work, though I'll just put one big caveat out now - I'm more a software developer than a videographer, though I am trying to improve on the latter. I bought the HC-1 because I could justify it as a business expense, and I am also working on an archival family interview project, and wanted to have the highest resolution format I could afford.
Kunga wrote: > That rock sculpture building with MC looks amazing. What is your > compression methodology? Can you walk us through your compression > path please? > In general, I'm of the Verdi/3IVX school, using dual pass whenever possible. I also am pretty aggressive on audio compression, using some MPEG-4 variant, often in mono, or at least down at below 64kbps. I will try to document what I did on each of this, and send it out. > On the talk with Jon I see you are using copyrighted Neil Young music > to mess up the longevity due to copyright violation. Yeah, it was kind of meant as a joke - that was playing on the car radio, and since we were discussing DRM we figured we'd see what happened if we left it in. I think Neil would be okay with it, though we expect an RIAA notice at any moment. All of the other music is composed by me, either using GarageBand tracks, or through tools such as Cubase. > Also didn't eleminate the top and bottom black bands - IE didn't CROP > unnecessary > bandwidth off top and bottom, thus making the posted file bigger than > it needed to be. The car talk was shot in HDV but captured in FCE as DV. The rock building was captured and edited as HDV using iMovie 6 HD. If I crop the black off the DV video, what should the resulting resolution be for iPod compatibility? > While the rock building at 640 x 360 will load on > the Video iPod, the car talk @ 720 x 480 will not. Why didn't you > crop it to the iPod max of 640 x 360 so it would? Was that before you > knew about iPod compatible maximum dimensions? I honestly haven't gotten my head around iPod compatibility yet. Early on I was a big fan of the "Export to iPod" feature of iMovie, but then it seemed like no one could watch them in their browser. Now, I'm back to using 3IVX and a bunch of manual settings. It's really all a big pain to be truthful. I think I need a faster computer. > Is there no backlight switch or was there > no way to manually open up the iris further or manually increase the > gain? > There are both features on the HC-1, but I didn't spend enough time considering that during our filming. I have used it with success in other environments though. I will say though that the *one big issue* of the HC1 is image graininess when shooting in the dark. I think all the reviews out there will comment on this. It's not a deal-breaker, but if you are planning on shooting lots of concerts, clubshots, late-night work, it's probably not the best camera, even with Sony's green "night vision" mode (which you can use with a black&white filter to great effect) > The above two great overall though. At 6MB a minute it's very a > impressive compression scheme. > I think both compressed well thanks to the relative stillness of the camera, especially with the rock building. As I said, I will try to document exactly what i've done and share it here at some point. > But what happened with the racing piece? It is often times way out of > focus and the compression looks way inferior. Yeah, it was done in iMovie. The first film I think I edited using footage from the HC-1, so I made plenty of mistakes. I'm not as methodical as I should be either. > Is that because the HC-1 fails when it > comes to action? Or is that a worse-higher compression scheme before > you got better at it with the other two later? I think its the latter. The HC-1 has been good on action (I'll post some action video when I can). I have been learning how to use manual focus and zoom, so again, it was probably my fault when it came to the focus. Plus, I was also out of breath from driving the cars (it's alot more exhausting than it looks). > I see it's only 3MB a > minute and a much smaller 480 x 271. How did you come to that > dimension in the compression-crop step? > It must of been some iMovie HD voodoo. I'll try to figure it out. > Are you using Handbrake or what? Would you mind critiquing each of > these videos and how you got them to the web condition from the HDV > recordings? Thanks. > Well, I provided what I could off the top of my head. I'm basically just using Final Cut Express HD these days, and am trying to get a solid process down. > Thanks for being an HDV HC-1 pioneer Nate. Your work is very important. > I'm posting this on the HDV Yahoo list as well. > A hapless pioneer at best! +nathan -- +my biz: http://openvision.tv +my life: http://nathan.freitas.net +my skype: nathanialfreitas -- Find and watch unique internet video through my original software: I/ON Internet Video Console at http://openvision.tv Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
