Hi Folks,
I've been reading at this forum for quite awhile, this is my first post to it. I am an amateur, hobby-level videographer; however, I do strive diligently to improve my abilities with NLE techniques and digital capture methods. Congratulations and kudos to you all, and the sponsor, for a very informative discussion group with a generally pretty low BS-quotient (Zippy excepted...).
I'll be stepping up from V V 3, which I've used for about 2 years, directly to Vegas 5 when it arrives in the mail; it will be running on my P4/2 GHz/1 Gig of RAM/120GigHD(7200 rpm).
So far I've been capturing video on a Sony DCR740--this is strictly a consumer grade camcorder, of course. Even so, using velocity envelopes and resampling in V V 3 I can get some pretty nice slow motion from the video recorded with this camcorder. A little success, however, has made me want to try for much more...
I'm starting to believe (from reading the fairly limited info that I can find) that a camcorder that records at 60 fps (progressive) is probably necessary for making higher quality slo mo video. For example, I'd like to capture video that can give a reasonable account of a thrown baseball and a swung bat; however, with my current camcorder this type of motion is not captured very well. Unfortunately, a prosumer-level camcorder is all that I can consider seriously for next hardware purchase.
Anyone in this forum have experience with recording/editing for high quality slow motion? Advice from someone knowledgeable in this area would be greatly appreciated.
One prosumer camcorder that I've been thinking about is the JVC JY-HD10U; however, I've found little in the way of in depth critical review of this machine. Instead, I've found a somewhat confusing mixture of advertising hype, lite review, and some cranky-sounding stuff like, "...only one CCD, hey, what is this sh-t!!?". Again, any personal experience from reasonably mature folks using this machine for slo mo work, especially in conjunction with Vegas Video NLE software, would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Lee
I've been reading at this forum for quite awhile, this is my first post to it. I am an amateur, hobby-level videographer; however, I do strive diligently to improve my abilities with NLE techniques and digital capture methods. Congratulations and kudos to you all, and the sponsor, for a very informative discussion group with a generally pretty low BS-quotient (Zippy excepted...).
I'll be stepping up from V V 3, which I've used for about 2 years, directly to Vegas 5 when it arrives in the mail; it will be running on my P4/2 GHz/1 Gig of RAM/120GigHD(7200 rpm).
So far I've been capturing video on a Sony DCR740--this is strictly a consumer grade camcorder, of course. Even so, using velocity envelopes and resampling in V V 3 I can get some pretty nice slow motion from the video recorded with this camcorder. A little success, however, has made me want to try for much more...
I'm starting to believe (from reading the fairly limited info that I can find) that a camcorder that records at 60 fps (progressive) is probably necessary for making higher quality slo mo video. For example, I'd like to capture video that can give a reasonable account of a thrown baseball and a swung bat; however, with my current camcorder this type of motion is not captured very well. Unfortunately, a prosumer-level camcorder is all that I can consider seriously for next hardware purchase.
Anyone in this forum have experience with recording/editing for high quality slow motion? Advice from someone knowledgeable in this area would be greatly appreciated.
One prosumer camcorder that I've been thinking about is the JVC JY-HD10U; however, I've found little in the way of in depth critical review of this machine. Instead, I've found a somewhat confusing mixture of advertising hype, lite review, and some cranky-sounding stuff like, "...only one CCD, hey, what is this sh-t!!?". Again, any personal experience from reasonably mature folks using this machine for slo mo work, especially in conjunction with Vegas Video NLE software, would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Lee