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Originally Posted by GWR9600
What video camera do you use? I use a Panasonic NVGS250, which I got on-line for £500 inc. P&P, the extra batteries and firewire cable cost an extra £100.
PS nice footage shame about the download time  |
The camcorder is a Sony HC1E High Definition Camcorder. Whereas a standard camcorder records 720x576 pixels, the HC1E records 1980x1080 pixels and looks simply stunning on large plasma or LCD displays.
The HC1E is around £1200 but Sony have just released a small higher definition camcarder but with the same resoluiton for £800-£900 (HC3E).
With the camcorder being high def, all footage is shot in anamorphic widescreen.
If you are not using broadband then the download times for the "high res" footage will takes ages as the files are pretty big even though I've reduced the resolution to 1280x720. That's why there are also low res files for people on dial up connections. The low res files could be made smaller but the quality does suffer so I tend to use a 'Medium' setting for converting the files to WMV format which results in a file size of around 2MB to 5MB depending upon running time.