Q. If so, do you like it?
I hear the microphone sucks, but I don't care TOO much about audio, how bad is it?
I hear the microphone sucks, but I don't care TOO much about audio, how bad is it?
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Greetings,
Before you spring a bunch of money on the very small (and very good) Canon HV-10, check out the brand new HV-20. I have heard to amazing things about the HV-20. The HV-10 the smallest HDV camcorder out there right now, but the HV-20 has some features that put it at the top of the list for casual home users.
One being that is has a native 1920 by 1080 CMOS chip. Secondly, it does 24P!! This is a good thing!
Jeff
Greetings,
Before you spring a bunch of money on the very small (and very good) Canon HV-10, check out the brand new HV-20. I have heard to amazing things about the HV-20. The HV-10 the smallest HDV camcorder out there right now, but the HV-20 has some features that put it at the top of the list for casual home users.
One being that is has a native 1920 by 1080 CMOS chip. Secondly, it does 24P!! This is a good thing!
Jeff
Burning HD camcorder footage to DVD?
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I am currently thinking about purchasing an HD camcorder (possibly the Canon HF-10, HG10, or HG20). Now, I imagine transferring the file from the camcorder to my PC should be pretty simple, but what I am more concerned with is burning that file onto a DVD. (1) Should I have any trouble with that? (2) And more importantly, being that my footage is High Def quality, how would that be affected when burning on a normal DVD?
* I don't have a high def DVD player, but am currently looking for an upconversion one.
Answer
Presuming you want to edit the video you capture, your video editor needs to be able to handle AVCHD-compressed (MTS file type) video. Many video editors' current versions can - but older versions cannot. In the Windows/Vista environment, no version of MovieMake can deal with AVCHD video - Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere generally float to the top. Apple iMovie '08 or newer (bundled with Macs) can deal with AVCHD video - as can the current versions of FinalCut Express and Pro - they must be running on an Intel-Mac.
Once the editing is done, you can output to whatever format you need - that your video editor can support. For DVD playback in a regular DVD player, your best bet is to use a DVD authoring tool. There are a ton of them - but the Windows example is WinDVD. This will allow you to create menus and scene selection buttons - and will render VOB files to the blank DVD. Apple iDVD is bundled with Macs. In either case, this video will be downsampled to standard definition and rendered into the VOB file.
If you require high definition playback, you have limited choices because of the camcorders you have selected. For the most part, the easiest method is to also save the finished video project as a computer-readable h.264 encoded high definition video file. Playback using your computer is about it. I can connect my computer to the VGA port on my HDTV and watch that...
BUT, since I use miniDV tape based camcorders to record HDV, I can also export the finished project back to the camcorder and use the camcorder as the play-back deck when I connect the component (RGB) and audio or HDMI cables to the HDTV... And I can archive that final project onto a miniDV tape in HDV format and store it for years...
If you want to burn a high definition file onto DVD that can be used by a BluRay Player (or PS3), you can burn an AVCHD/h.264 data file to the blank disc. The blank DVD can be a regular single layer or doulble layer DVD - it does not have to be a BluRay blank. A regular DVD player will not be able to read that AVCHD data file on that disc.
Keep in mind that a regular single layer DVD holds only 4.7 gig of data and a double layer holds 8.5 gig so they don't hold very much compared to BluRay blanks which start at 25 gig (and are a lot more expensive)...
Presuming you want to edit the video you capture, your video editor needs to be able to handle AVCHD-compressed (MTS file type) video. Many video editors' current versions can - but older versions cannot. In the Windows/Vista environment, no version of MovieMake can deal with AVCHD video - Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere generally float to the top. Apple iMovie '08 or newer (bundled with Macs) can deal with AVCHD video - as can the current versions of FinalCut Express and Pro - they must be running on an Intel-Mac.
Once the editing is done, you can output to whatever format you need - that your video editor can support. For DVD playback in a regular DVD player, your best bet is to use a DVD authoring tool. There are a ton of them - but the Windows example is WinDVD. This will allow you to create menus and scene selection buttons - and will render VOB files to the blank DVD. Apple iDVD is bundled with Macs. In either case, this video will be downsampled to standard definition and rendered into the VOB file.
If you require high definition playback, you have limited choices because of the camcorders you have selected. For the most part, the easiest method is to also save the finished video project as a computer-readable h.264 encoded high definition video file. Playback using your computer is about it. I can connect my computer to the VGA port on my HDTV and watch that...
BUT, since I use miniDV tape based camcorders to record HDV, I can also export the finished project back to the camcorder and use the camcorder as the play-back deck when I connect the component (RGB) and audio or HDMI cables to the HDTV... And I can archive that final project onto a miniDV tape in HDV format and store it for years...
If you want to burn a high definition file onto DVD that can be used by a BluRay Player (or PS3), you can burn an AVCHD/h.264 data file to the blank disc. The blank DVD can be a regular single layer or doulble layer DVD - it does not have to be a BluRay blank. A regular DVD player will not be able to read that AVCHD data file on that disc.
Keep in mind that a regular single layer DVD holds only 4.7 gig of data and a double layer holds 8.5 gig so they don't hold very much compared to BluRay blanks which start at 25 gig (and are a lot more expensive)...
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