mtbwoodtra
im looking for a camcorder that has high frames per second (fps) , that has pretty good quality and that also wont break the bank. Any recomendations would be most grateful, Thanks
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Tony and Blue made suggestions, but did not answer your question directly.
The only manufacturer that makes useful stuff the consumer space that captures at faster than standard fps for slow motion playback is Sony. They have some consumer camcorders with a "SmoothSlowRecord" feature. The camcorder can burst capturing a higher rate of fps for 3 seconds - the playback time at standard playback fps is 12 seconds. Not all Sony camcorders have this - BEFORE YOU BUY THE CAMCORDER, download the manual from the support area at sony.com and read through it to be sure it has what you need and you understand how it is invoked and used.
If you require very specific industrial grade slow-motion, then you will need to get a high-speed industrial camera designed to capture fast moving activities. Using a regular consumer camcorder, the easiest and cheapest thing to do is to increase the shutter speed on the camcorder to 1/500 or 1/1000 (or faster if there is enough light). Then use the slow feature in your video editor.
Tony and Blue made suggestions, but did not answer your question directly.
The only manufacturer that makes useful stuff the consumer space that captures at faster than standard fps for slow motion playback is Sony. They have some consumer camcorders with a "SmoothSlowRecord" feature. The camcorder can burst capturing a higher rate of fps for 3 seconds - the playback time at standard playback fps is 12 seconds. Not all Sony camcorders have this - BEFORE YOU BUY THE CAMCORDER, download the manual from the support area at sony.com and read through it to be sure it has what you need and you understand how it is invoked and used.
If you require very specific industrial grade slow-motion, then you will need to get a high-speed industrial camera designed to capture fast moving activities. Using a regular consumer camcorder, the easiest and cheapest thing to do is to increase the shutter speed on the camcorder to 1/500 or 1/1000 (or faster if there is enough light). Then use the slow feature in your video editor.
Slow motion feature on camcorders?
David
I am looking into buying a camcorder. One of the features I'm looking for in my camcorder is he ability to play back your footage in slow motion. I would like to be able to do this on the actual camcorder, rather than have to upload it onto the computer and use editing software to see it in slow-mo. However, I don't even know if this kind of camcorder exists. Could you guys tell me if this kind of thing exists? Also, I would like some suggestions of a good one, with or without the slow motion playback. I have a budget of $400. Thanks guys!
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Casio had several cameras that shot up to 1000 fps at reduced resolutions, but on a quick scan of their website I no longer see them listed. These were point and shoot still cameras that could do this.
Otherwise, without spending several thousand dollars, you have no options in your price point.
Numerous cameras are advertising 60fps or 50fps...this is misleading. They are not getting 60 full and independent frames per second. Each frame has two fields (taken at the exact same time) and the 60/50 more correctly refers to fields per second. Additionally, H264 video is highly compressed and as few as 4 frames per second are actually generated by light coming through the lens, the remainder are interpolated. This is a weakness for consumer HD cameras and a disaster for using the footage for software generated slow motion. (As an aside...THIS is THE reason behind the famous 9/11 footage that appears to show an explosion ahead of the aircraft's impact)
4:2:2 video, like that in high-end pro-video cameras in the $3500 and up range is much better. Good old standard def MiniDv based camcorders, even the consumer units like the $250 Canon ZR 960 (recently discontinued) shot 4:2:2 which is uncompressed in the luminosity chanel.The compression in this format was frame by frame. No frame relied on it's neighbors for image data. And the 29.97 frames per second allows for pretty good software slow motion to at least 50% speed.
Casio had several cameras that shot up to 1000 fps at reduced resolutions, but on a quick scan of their website I no longer see them listed. These were point and shoot still cameras that could do this.
Otherwise, without spending several thousand dollars, you have no options in your price point.
Numerous cameras are advertising 60fps or 50fps...this is misleading. They are not getting 60 full and independent frames per second. Each frame has two fields (taken at the exact same time) and the 60/50 more correctly refers to fields per second. Additionally, H264 video is highly compressed and as few as 4 frames per second are actually generated by light coming through the lens, the remainder are interpolated. This is a weakness for consumer HD cameras and a disaster for using the footage for software generated slow motion. (As an aside...THIS is THE reason behind the famous 9/11 footage that appears to show an explosion ahead of the aircraft's impact)
4:2:2 video, like that in high-end pro-video cameras in the $3500 and up range is much better. Good old standard def MiniDv based camcorders, even the consumer units like the $250 Canon ZR 960 (recently discontinued) shot 4:2:2 which is uncompressed in the luminosity chanel.The compression in this format was frame by frame. No frame relied on it's neighbors for image data. And the 29.97 frames per second allows for pretty good software slow motion to at least 50% speed.
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