A little HD footage...

PimpinD2 · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 5:22 am Post subject: A little HD footage...

Well I was bored this weekend, so I walked down to the lake and filmed some nature scenes with my new camera...

The first link is ~83megs, but 720p quality...

The second link is ~42megs, but compressed much more, the first one looks much better...

Lemme know what you think...

http://www.simplethoughtproductions.com/data/dropbox/material_nature.wmv

http://web.rollins.edu/~agarabaghi/m...7;20nature.mp4

right click > save as...

Chattwake · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 5:52 am Post subject:

I've been thinking about getting a hd setup. What kind of camera/lense do you have, how much did you pay and where did you get them? The quality of that vid is amazing.

PimpinD2 · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 6:30 am Post subject:

Its a Canon XH A1, everything is stock. The great thing about the XH A1 is the online community, a lot of people have created these presets that you can download and put on the SD card. This one in particular is called VividRGB. The real thing with HD is compression and figuring out how to maintain quality while not having crazy big files.

PimpinD2 · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 6:31 am Post subject:

Oh, the camera is $3500 with a $250 rebate. The tripod is a LS22(2A) Libec with fluid head which was $500.

Chattwake · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 7:05 am Post subject:

Dude. I'll have one in a month. Christmas bonus here we come! I'll have to get your # so you can give me some pointers!

PimpinD2 · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 7:14 am Post subject:

for sure, u might wanna check canons site and make sure about the rebate it might end soon.

Chattwake · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 8:26 am Post subject:

They're for sale on ebay right now for 2995

PimpinD2 · Posted: Dec 04, 2007 8:27 am Post subject:

cool, but id never buy something so fragile and delicate off of ebay. But thats just me... and dont expect the rebate to work with something from ebay.

thesk8nmidget · Criminal Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 55 City: eugene

look good!

ChrisG · Posted: Dec 05, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

PimpinD2 - what software are you using to compress/upload these files?

I bought a Sony 30GB HD camcorder last year. I need to start moving the videos over to my laptop. I'm using the Sony software that was provided but it's very slow and I can't figure out how to make the videos smaller. For example, I transferred over a 4 min video (.m2ts file that is 262MB), but when I convert it into a .mpg file, it's still 170MB. Am I missing something?

Also, I'm assuming the .m2ts file is HD, but can I compress it down to a smaller size without losing any quality?