why don't just go to any uni/college and ask yourself? wouldn't that be easier?

This post has been edited by C-Fu: Aug 15 2009, 11:31 AM

all. the audio makes the scene moar than the video i believe so. but if you have a whole bunch of dedicated team then anything's possible.

watch the behind the scenes la at take180. i believe it's a sony ex series cam, but it could be anything really.

well i suppose judging by the amount of people in the making-of production video it certainly has a tv production crew, so that's what you need lah. there's a reason why production is bloated with so many "unnecessary" people that's actually necessary. you have assistants to assistants, you have water boys to boom guys, and you still use big old SD cameras that costs thousands of ringgit to rent. There's a reason for all that, and that's why you get this sorta thing.

pixellating render? probably because you fiddle with the codec settings i guess. let me take a wild guess here and you were rendering to mp4/ avc, low bitrate, with deblocking off?

xr520 is currently the best for low light and and the gigaultrastabiliser (you really really have to see it in person OMG even a lot of pro cams kalah). other features are pretty much lebih kurang.

sharpness is very very good, and considering its using 16mbps bitrate instead of other cams using 24mbps thats proven not as optimised as it should be.

the thing about sony that makes me a fan (brand wise) compared to pana cams is simply their decision NOT to put the power plug inside the battery slot, which panasonic loves to do (dumbest decision ever). so you could charge and use the power at the same time. you can tell me pana does this and that better, i don't care until they fix this, wont go pana hahahhaha

This post has been edited by C-Fu: Sep 5 2009, 05:12 PM

render to WMVHD 720p, make sure bitrate is around 2mb or 3mb. try to make sure the filesize is less or around 100MB per video. youtube will instantly recognizes it as HD (because the info is built in inside the codec info straight away, so youtube has no reason not to set it to HD), not HQ. you can try other codecs to render to, like avc avi, and tweak2 to make the image SLIGHTLY sharper than wmvhd, but really what's the point.

and this time, make sure your project settings in vegas matches your video resolution (should be 1920x1080) and pixel ratio - should be 1.0 not 1.3333 or anythign else. when render baru set to 720p lah.

oh and small, bright blue arial text over black background kenot go la. at least make the text bigger, and less arial. experiment a bit la brader!


and no need fade in/out for so lama. text can appear lama la, but no need to fade in so lama. fade out can be slow, but gradually should fade out faster. right click on the fade out line to change the fade out style.

erm..... the gorillapod?

wah everybody really raya sampai this thread dah takde hahaha

i rather have real warranty than 35% discount.

ronaldkwok, is the zoom pressure-sensitive? cuz it doesn't seem that way.


oh and i wanted to get the sony xr520v recently, but then my car gearbox broke down, and i had to use that money for that.


and to think the gearbox costs the same as the cam!!!!

You want OIS, you can always revert to a screw, a tali, and a washer as a makeshift tripod.

Or learn to hold your cam properly.

Light is harder to compensate, as it's not always that you can use your own lighting when recording.Plus if people see one bright light shining on them at all times, it's harder for them to be natural in whatever that they're doing.

wah nice to see people are still active in this thread

General rule of thumb is, if you have the money to spend on medium-high end video camera, AND care about audio quality, go for camcorders.

slrs have come a long way, but they're closing the gap quite fast, with a few limitations of course. For most people that's not really a problem, but for your average user that's not the case.

For instance, I've seen average users having trouble holding slrs to capture video due to the shape. But give them camcorders, and its a totally different experience.

As always, its up to your usage that will decide on which direction should you go for video recording. You want zoom? Camcorder. Flash? Camcorder. DOF? SLR. Audio? Camcorder. Lowlight? SLR. Battery life? Camcorder. Long recording? HDD camcorder. Long clip recording? Camcorder. Optical stabiliser? Camcorder. Additional pictures feature? SLR. Autofocus? Camcorder.

Mind you that this is a general rule. As always, there will always be exceptions to the rule. And well, if you are comparing a sub-1k camcorder with a 2k+ slr, you already have the answers to your questions what

This post has been edited by C-Fu: Apr 28 2011, 02:16 AM

well if your camera supports 1080p50 instead of 1080p60, it's a lot easier and less hassle to downsample to 24p (50p / 2 = 25p, need to remove a frame per second).

The easiest way to do it would be, to create a 24p project in any good video editing software. just bear in mind that audio might get out of sync.

word of advice, 24p is overrated. film-look is ALOT more than just using 24p. stuff like lighting, vignette, etc are a lot more crucial to achieve that film-look than 24p.

Don't think you can get it anymore, but last I checked it's around RM7xxx. Might be wrong though.

AFAIK the ones in Malaysia are FX1000e, not 1000. So if you want 30i and not 25i you ought to find it elsewhere.

purpose first ler. you shortlist the cameras suitable for your purpose/needs la


as for Sony HVR-V1, meh. Sony screwed up with the 2nd gen HVR cam after Z1. It's always like that with sony, first gen quite revolutionary, 2nd gen or the transition gen (in this case, from CMOS to CCD) mesti weird one. some features are good, some are worse, and some are just weird.

you want low light? Z1. 20x zoom instead of 12x? V1. Tangan lembik? V1. Everything else? Same.

Bear in mind that if you try harder to find a good Z1, it should be cheaper by some money compared to V1. With the money saved, you could prolly get a HDD recorder for it - the sony one or the firestone one - and even some extra stuff like the 10 hour battery. Or, get the film mount and adapter, and you should be ready

nope I didn't. reread what I said.

1. same macro angle/magnification?
2. same brand?
3. same quality? chroma abberration etc?

yeah, gotta check for those. wide lens especially, some cheap brands would introduce purple fringing to your videos.

price?

tape rosak, or tape mechanism/motor in the camcorder rosak