Comments on: Researching an HD Camcorder http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/comment-page-1/#comment-101888 John Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:37:53 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/#comment-101888 Thanks Jonathan... great review... I love those guys at dpreview... Thanks Jonathan… great review… I love those guys at dpreview…

]]> By: Jonathan Greene http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/comment-page-1/#comment-98934 Jonathan Greene Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:31:42 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/#comment-98934 Just caught this and thought of you ... http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonTX1/ Just caught this and thought of you …

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]]> By: Jonathan Greene http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/comment-page-1/#comment-96133 Jonathan Greene Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:42:33 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/#comment-96133 John - I recently purchased the Canon HV20 and am VERY pleased with the performance. It's more expensive than the TX1 I know, but it shoots in 1080i - 1920 x 1080 and I use the enhanced setting to get 24p as well. The files are MASSIVE. I usually export from Final Cut to a Quicktime and then into a 720p for AppleTV and also to share online. I looked at the HDD cameras, but kept coming back to the main issue of storage. It's great if you want to rip something quickly, but you need to archive the footage (and would have to do so as well from a memory card) before you can record again. With the HDV system I can just get another tape. Capturing is real-time, but you get a great deal more flexibility and security. JG John –

I recently purchased the Canon HV20 and am VERY pleased with the performance. It’s more expensive than the TX1 I know, but it shoots in 1080i – 1920 x 1080 and I use the enhanced setting to get 24p as well. The files are MASSIVE. I usually export from Final Cut to a Quicktime and then into a 720p for AppleTV and also to share online.

I looked at the HDD cameras, but kept coming back to the main issue of storage. It’s great if you want to rip something quickly, but you need to archive the footage (and would have to do so as well from a memory card) before you can record again. With the HDV system I can just get another tape. Capturing is real-time, but you get a great deal more flexibility and security.

JG

]]> By: casey spain http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/comment-page-1/#comment-95940 casey spain Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:56:47 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2007/06/03/researching-an-hd-camcorder/#comment-95940 i have a tx1 and i'm happy with it.  i have a lot of experience with different codecs and you should know that, in my opinion, Canon's choice of the Motion JPEG format is a big plus in this camera.  I could go on and on about the pluses and minuses of Motion JPEG vs MPEG4, but I think it comes down to something very simple.  Although battery utilization in the TX1 is great, it's not going to last more than 20 or 30 minutes of continuous shooting. So, you have to pop in another battery, good time to swap the SDHC card as well.   I believe Canon deigned the TX1 to get the maximum image quality out of single battery power session.   Having extra batteries and SDHC cards in your pocket is always wise. The LP modes in both HD and VGA resoutions result more JPEG compression and less image quality.  The LP HD mode gives you 26 minutes of recording on a 4GB card.  The LP VGA mode gives you 55 minutes of recording. The motion JPEG data is in an AVI container, but Quicktime has no trouble reading and editing the movies.  You can easily setup a Final Cut Pro sequence template for native editing of TX1 material.  Editing right off of a fast SDHC card is great.   Do not get a cheap SDHC card.  Class 6 looks good, but a good Sandisk Class 2 card may work better than a bottom dollar Class 6 card. Two warnings: 1. 1600 ISO allows for very low light shooting at the expense of nasty image noise.  There are good/free FCP filters that help with the noise issues though. 2. At 4 GBs a shoot, and one shoot a week, prepare to spend another $1.5k on that new Drobo and some 1TB disks. ( http://www.drobo.com ) Ok, one more thing: the sound recorder application on the TX1 is setup nicely. The audio quality is good. No tape motor noise! The stereo mics are located on the outside of the screen for less handling noise. i have a tx1 and i’m happy with it.  i have a lot of experience with different codecs and you should know that, in my opinion, Canon’s choice of the Motion JPEG format is a big plus in this camera.  I could go on and on about the pluses and minuses of Motion JPEG vs MPEG4, but I think it comes down to something very simple.  Although battery utilization in the TX1 is great, it’s not going to last more than 20 or 30 minutes of continuous shooting. So, you have to pop in another battery, good time to swap the SDHC card as well.   I believe Canon deigned the TX1 to get the maximum image quality out of single battery power session.  

Having extra batteries and SDHC cards in your pocket is always wise.

The LP modes in both HD and VGA resoutions result more JPEG compression and less image quality.  The LP HD mode gives you 26 minutes of recording on a 4GB card.  The LP VGA mode gives you 55 minutes of recording.

The motion JPEG data is in an AVI container, but Quicktime has no trouble reading and editing the movies.  You can easily setup a Final Cut Pro sequence template for native editing of TX1 material.  Editing right off of a fast SDHC card is great.  

Do not get a cheap SDHC card.  Class 6 looks good, but a good Sandisk Class 2 card may work better than a bottom dollar Class 6 card.

Two warnings: 1. 1600 ISO allows for very low light shooting at the expense of nasty image noise.  There are good/free FCP filters that help with the noise issues though. 2. At 4 GBs a shoot, and one shoot a week, prepare to spend another $1.5k on that new Drobo and some 1TB disks. ( http://www.drobo.com )

Ok, one more thing: the sound recorder application on the TX1 is setup nicely. The audio quality is good. No tape motor noise! The stereo mics are located on the outside of the screen for less handling noise.

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