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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2011, 08:23:47 AM »

Tried with my camera - awkward and took several takes - then the file type was wrong - now I've lost the charger. Briefly had a Zoom - it is very slow to boot up - so gifted that to daughter DollyMay who records her choirs - bought the Olympus LS-11 as per the chap next to me in the Upton session. It's fast, clean and produces MP3s on the fly. Very nice kit.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2011, 08:57:22 AM »

Tried with my camera - awkward and took several takes - then the file type was wrong - now I've lost the charger. Briefly had a Zoom - it is very slow to boot up - so gifted that to daughter DollyMay who records her choirs - bought the Olympus LS-11 as per the chap next to me in the Upton session. It's fast, clean and produces MP3s on the fly. Very nice kit.

So we can expect ToTM entries any moment  ::)

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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2011, 09:01:10 AM »

More specifically; Does anyone have any knowledge about a Sony DCR SR15 HDD? I have no doubt the video quality is OK for your average layman but what would sound quality be like compared to a goodish webcam?

It will be better than a webcam mic but not much better, unfortunately the DCR SR15 does not have external mic input ... that would have worked
My Sony (HDR XR520 prob why it cost a fortune) has a mic that works very well indeed.. but its a cost thing i guess.

MP3 recorders are getting cheaper and using both video and seperate sound recording done at the same time then swopping the camera sound out is what i use now!   DTN  :|||:
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2011, 09:34:22 AM »

Thanks DTN. That saved me wading in and blowing some hard earned money! Still think I'll investigate the camcorder option but with external mic input as a must.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2012, 08:38:36 PM »

As it's over a year since this topic was last raised, are there any fresh thoughts on what filming/recording gear to get?

Nigel 

PS Quite surprised to see I started this thread!!
« Last Edit: March 17, 2012, 08:40:20 PM by strad »
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2012, 12:32:21 AM »

I use macbook webcam and i-movie
Ditto.  It's actually easier to make a vid this way than it is to record an MP3 in Garage Band.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2012, 06:49:00 PM »

I use a Macbook, internal cam and mic, and find that the sound sometimes is rather boring or distorted, and the picture tend to freeze if the box is moving too much. But I got a older MacBook from 2005, so maybe it's time to update...

BTW: I Tried out a Zoom H2n in a shop recently, and now that was a fantastic recording device, but I wouldn't know how to mix the sound with a video. Also you could check out this thread: Recording your sound
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2012, 07:50:36 PM »

I usually record the vid on my Panasonic TZ6 digital camera and the sound on an Olympus LS10 digital sound recorder. If the sound needs beefing up, reverb or owt, I use Audacity and stitch the sound to the pics using Windows Live Movie Maker. My latest ThOTM offering uses still photos, a number of which were taken on my old Canon Ixus 5mp camera. I'm a bit of a technoduffer but managed to put my first TOTM vid onto YouTube within a day of putting it together - mostly by just doing what came naturally on the various bits of software. My vids usually take about an hour or so to upload to Utoob.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2012, 09:28:02 PM »

I've been leant a Tascam DR-05, and have been playing around with it this evening. Edited (compression, EQ, reverb) using GarageBand. For what it is, I'm very pleased with the results.

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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2012, 06:05:10 AM »

If you have ffmeg library installed to Audacity you can edit audio in a videoclip. Works good.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2012, 10:00:47 AM »

Regarding FFmpeg in Audacity, would I be right in thinking you cannot do any editing to remove or add bits of audio from a video as it would then be out of sync when added back into the video?
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2012, 12:05:44 PM »

Video: Sanyo Xacti VPC CG10
Audio: M-Audio Delta 1010, AVLinux system with Ardour 2.8.12
Editing: AVIdemux

The audio recording hardware is overkill of course, but it's set up for an 8 track recording studio.
My Edirol R-09 would do just as good a job, and sound processing in Audacity would be good enough except then I wouldn't have access to a very nice reverb plugin from LinuxDSP, and copy/paste editing would be harder.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #32 on: March 20, 2012, 09:26:05 AM »

I record with a  Sony "Cybershot" 7.2 megapixel digital camera, which has a setting for taking video with sound. Then I use Windows Movie Maker to add the titles and, if necessary, to trim the clip.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #33 on: January 24, 2017, 02:10:56 PM »

I'm pleased to have found a simple and easy way to do TOTMs.   An obsolete camcorder Kodak Zi8 (£39 ebay) which has a socket for an external mike -  using Zoom H1 as a mike.  Both on little tripods, and a shaving mirror behind the camcorder so I can see the image.  I understand that mike sockets are otherwise available only on very expensive videocameras.
Then swap the memory card directly into the laptop, and immediately into the Windows 10 Photos programme, which allows simple editing. I previously used an ordinary little camera, Canon Ixus, which was OK for 200 vids.  The new way is simpler and the sound is better.

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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #34 on: January 24, 2017, 02:39:17 PM »

Since Jack has revived this thread, here's a useful fact about YouTube which may not be news to many people.

YouTube is great as an mp4 converter. If you have a fast upload connection, you can save the time it takes to convert the raw movie clip from your camera to wmv or mp4 - just upload the raw clip. Once the video is published, as the account owner you can download the mp4 from YouTube, which is of decent quality and has a much smaller file size than anything the software I have enables me to produce.

So even if you do convert to mp4 or wmv to save upload time, you can get a more compact file from YouTube. A clip I recently uploaded was 2 GB in MOV format, which for uploading I converted to high-resolution wmv: 900 MB. Mp4 file from YouTube: 325 MB.

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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #35 on: January 24, 2017, 02:58:05 PM »

YouTube is great as an mp4 converter. If you have a fast upload connection
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A clip I recently uploaded was 2 GB in MOV format, which for uploading I converted to high-resolution wmv: 900 MB.

900MB would be a very long upload for most of us, even with fibre, and especially for me after Plus Net downgraded their fibre upload speeds  :(  (to make more bandwidth available in the download direction tey say, but that 's already quite fast enough...)
I edit my YouTube videos with KDEnlive, which has no trouble exporting MP4 with H.264 encoding anyway and I can dial in whatever quality/filesize tradeoff I like.
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #36 on: January 24, 2017, 03:06:50 PM »

Well, the 900 MB file was a 17-minute video. I have cable here, and not quite the most extreme high-speed package the ISP offers, and it took about 12 minutes IIRC.

I can alter the mp4 settings too with what I use, although I haven't been bothered to play with them. If upload times are not a problem (especially for shorter clips than 17 minutes), downloading from YT might be useful for the less technically minded.

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« Reply #37 on: January 24, 2017, 03:13:11 PM »

I'm interested as it takes me many hours to upload a 1.5gb file to youtube - trying to keep as high a quality as poss for the GC videos. Am I right in thinking that KDEnlive is not for windows yet?
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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2017, 03:21:05 PM »

Am I right in thinking that KDEnlive is not for windows yet?

You could try Mpeg streamclip, which I learned about from GBH in this thread years ago. Free, and works well.

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Re: What gear and programs?
« Reply #39 on: January 24, 2017, 03:27:34 PM »

https://kdenlive.org/download/ suggests there is a Windows "test" version. No idea how good/stable it is. Last year it went through a phase of being unusable on Linux but it's working fine for me now (later version, many bugs fixed)

1.5GB? My uploads are typically 50-70MB!

If you just want to do file conversions, Avanti might be useful. It's a Windows front end for FFMPEG, which is the free software library that does all the heavy lifting for most audio and video software. FFMPEG understands hundreds of file formats and codecs.
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