In our quest to find the best bang for our buck while thinking of investing in some new video technology for our trips, we decided the best option - instead of reading a lot of reviews online, and watching a lot of individual youtube videos would be to go to our local Currys and get some hands-on time with an SD card in the camera to see which one was best. Steve, the friendly sales guy who actually knew what he was talking about let us have about 30 minutes of his time to look at 4 cameras that fell in our budget and one that we've had our eye on for some time (the SD90). This video is the outcome of our footage. The four cameras we tried were the: JVC Everio GZ-HM301BEK Panasonic HDC-SD41 Canon Legria HF R205 Panasonic HDC-SD90 For some reason, the JVC decided to shoot at 720p, even though the basic menu system implied it was on highest quality. The canon was in 1080i mode but supports 1080p as well. Opening music is Mary by Taylor Hayward - www.taylorhayward.org See our website for more info www.onelasttrip.net
This is my review of the JVC Everio GZ-HM300 camcorder. I got this for 9 on Amazon.com with shipping! Great camera for the money. Video was recorded on a Canon Vixia HF S20
ArcSoft Media Impression is the video editing software that came built into my Kodak Zi8 video camera. While it is very basic -- in some aspects not even as powerful as Windows Movie Maker -- I've found that it will accept almost any kind of video file format or resolution you can find, and will produce good results. So I make this simple test video using a large variety of video clips from different camcorders in different file formats to see how it all would turn out. It accepted every format I could find, all the way from the videos made by a crappy camera to an 0 Canon AVCHD camcorder, except for FLV and an old version of QuickTime MOV using the Sorenson codec (it decoded the video but not the audio). Media Impression can render your edited video in "HD" at 720P or 1080P, but I chose WVGA (848x480) in order to keep the file size and rendering time reasonably small. But note that if you don't already have a Kodak camcorder, Media Impression is not worth buying alone, because ArcSoft charges .99, and you can get an entire Kodak Zx1 or ZxD camcorder, including the Media Impression software, for less than that!
Recently, I wrote about how the high capacity versions of Secure Digital cards (officially "SDHC") were going to revolutionize the digital imaging market, particularly video. Although there are only some 8GB versions floating around, SDHC cards should reach capacities of 32 GB at some point (maybe by '09 if not earlier). Although several video cameras with SD slots that explicitly support the "HC" variant of the Secure Digital storage specification, are coming onto the market, seeing a combination of SDHC support, 3 CCDs, Hi-Def video, and a 60 GB hard drive in a single camera that comes in around 00 is pretty exciting. The camera is definitely a prosumer (pro-consumer) model but the question is, at about 8x less than cost of our professional Panasonic camera, can it handle our professional needs. We won't know until we put it through its paces (which we intend to do). But the good news is that the camera is here as is one of its peripherals (for burning DVDs so the HD content — if that's what you're recording in — can be easily archived to DVD). But in the meantime, I thought I'd share the unboxing experience with you on video. for more on this, visit: blogs.zdnet.com
An unboxing of the JVC Everio GZ-MG750 HD Camcorder. This will replace my Sony DSC H-9 for YouTube videos. Want me to review it? Just comment down below. TWITTER: twitter.com PSN: arwayeyen SKYPE: iTouchPsP FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com for FULL SPECIFICATIONS: cuthut.com PRICE: 9.99 from JVC's website www.jvc.com
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