OK.. here it is.. the JVC GR-HD1

Shaw said:
Sorry to be unclear Mr. Goldfish. I'm good at confusing myself even!

native is just used to refer to the format that is recorded to tape. In this case, MPEG2. With DV it would be DV etc.

Your definition is a perfectly fine use of the term bleeding. I wasn't trying to correct you! Just wasn't entirely sure what was happening and what was causing it to happen.

you refer to cinepak - can you provide more information on this format? Does JVC provide software that has this format? Is it available through Vegas alone? I'm just not familiar with the CODEC so I can't offer much insight yet into why it looks bad.

Just a suggestion for editing though: once you capture the footage to your hard drive you may want to consider opening the file in Vegas and then immediately exporting the file to an uncompressed AVI format. This will take up quite a bit more room on your hard drive but it is a good idea if you need to do a lot in editing. Otherwise everytime you hit "render" in vegas (even just for a preview of your work assuming Vegas' doesn't show effects real time) you will loose image quality because you will be, essentially, recompressing the file again throwing away data. With a format that has no compression no data is lost.

Not sure if that made sense. Try hitting me upside the head if it didn't and I'll draw up some graphics to help illustrate this better :)
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No it makes sense.. Its exactly what I try to avoid. but for now, Im forced into this several layered way of doing things. And as I was saying. I try and make things uncompressed when possible.


the Unlead works much greater then cinapak.

I am still working on compression so it gives a 100 percent quality.
 
when setting it up, you chose to find it yourself and chose from the list Sound video game controll (or something like that from the list) then JVC will be on the list.


thats just a note for me :D
 
thanks, like was mentioned before there is some noise to it. I didnt see it at the store but when I put it on a larger HD widescreen it came in.

its still nice. Its weird how HD looks so different from regular DV.

One of the nice features about HD is the fact that it pushes the scene out and so it looks like you're seeing things from the natural eye. a more wide debth of things (A cookie for the obvious :) ) where as when I switch it to DV it brings everything up to close. so I dont need to get a wide angle lens for it.

there is a kit at Frys electronic that makes has a magnetic optical lens that widens the view like an HD cam but it doesnt fit the Panasonic GV-PS series that I own. I have the 120 model. but it didnt even fit the 400 model they had in the store. there is no metal for the thing to attach too. only the JVC and the Sony worked.

I really love the colors of the 120 but this has a nice feel to it as well.

I get alot of weird feedback from friends when I say I bought it. they're like "2700 bucks? thats way to much money for a camera." But cameras have come way down in price since the 1980s while the dollar value has dropped to about a third of what it was 15-20 years ago. so in a sense, a 300 dollar camera todays money value would have been like 100-150 bucks back then. but cameras back then were over 800 bucks. I paid 1200 bucks for a video Toshiba camera in 1989. I dont think 2700 bucks is alot for a camera as good as this. there is a huge difference in the quality. and if people want to see their family all grainy 20 years from now then go buy a 300 dollar camera. Plus my kids love to play with the 120. Its small and light weight and i feel safer having them use that then the older Panasonic DV cam thats heavy and bulky and cost me 1000 bucks 5 years ago.


anyways, I have a purpose for all three cameras. the 3 color 120 model I use when I go hiking or vacation with the family. the older Panasonic I use at night because it has a night vision filter and has a really good picture as well. the HD will be used mostly for my hobby once I build my greenscreen in the garage.

Im gonna post pictures of it on my website when its done. My wife is helping too. its nice because I can composite my family into all kinds of scenes like them standing in front of halfdome of Yosemite that was too far away to get their picture in when we visited last year. I cropped a photo of the dome and blew it up and put them in front of a green screen and it look like they were right their when I adjusted the lights on them.
 
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