I Have Too Many Cameras

[aaabatry]

nice video... even though you have too many cameras, they're all crap.. make a good investment and buy a HDV camera! those puppies are AMAZING!

[Incredible462]

very original idea for a video :)

[thepod96]

I know this is old and you've probably sold the Flip by now but I much, much, MUCH prefer the Flip video in this video to all the other camera sources. It's brighter, has better audio quality, and is more smooth.

[StreetyKing]

Pro editing skills! great video.

[DeanKoon]

Adam, HELP!!

?Sanyo exati? , if you were to buy a new camera 2day which would you buy? I need a new camera do you recommend the sanyo today for me to buy what was the price how many pixels whats the top camera these days @ a reasonable price$ ???

[freepatriot]

Adam, do any of these cameras accept a line in for audio (so you can run the output of a mixer into the camera's audio in) ?

[freepatriot]

Haha I just caught the joke of why the intro has what sounds like a Borg Collective saying "This Is AdamB"

[freepatriot]

This was great. I bet you didn't realize how much additional work you were making for yourself every time you averted your gaze from one camera to another.

[djneo92nl]

i have 3

[ellendegeneresinamin]

I have that green camera, but mines blue. It doesn't work that well with Macs but I like it.

[macman2256]

Awesome editing, Its crazy how much time it takes to edit these movies. Well Done!

[ThisIsAdamB]

Thank you. Many, many hours of editing... Many, many, many....

[DeanKoon]

Adam Kudos for the editing nightmare you had with making this. I think that the "Ztec" I hope that I wrote it correct is garbage. I have a box of VCR's I need to get them made into dvd.s you want to make some money? I'll send them to you to make into dvd's would you have time, and quote me what you want to be paid? I could buy the blanks (which btw I should find out the best blank dvd's for my computer what do you recommend.

[freekuvnatur]

i have this web camera....it's green.

[thebritishbloke]

The flip camera seems the best in this video. The Xacti tends to be the most popular option as it offers the most features. If you just use that, we'll get a HD option on YouTube, so much better quality :)

[thearoom]

Witch flip do you have. I think it's the best. and the sounds not echoy. thanks. I bought the xacti and I'm very disapionted cg 10. everything looks yellow and unclear...I can't decide on the regular or the hd. and the mino sound suckes so I wanna get the old one. HM...

[WorldWideRomance]

the flip camera makes you look pasty, so much for that tan you were working on, jk jk.

and the aiptek one reallly sucks :S

[jalland]

I like the flip. Great audio. I also kinda like the picture.

[thecreativeone]

Great video! But damn, this must've be one hell of an edit! Bravo.

[ronknights]

Hey, that was indeed a great job!

[Colorguardgirl000]

Great Video AdamB

Carleen

[carlheanerd]

I love the Xacti, but the Flip's audio trumps all the others... Hard choices!!

[mernstgeek]

I like the widescreen one better too... let me know when you get rid of the flip one...

[bjhorton2005]

HAHAHAHA DAng adam. You have a few more cameras than I and I thought I was in bad shape. :)

[iwillg4]

aiptek= ape tech

[cmarshall1018]

i want one of your cameras because if you watch my videos you will know why

[bamdadkhan]

we miss you, adam b. wish you'd make more videos. this one is, for instance, fantastic. :)

btw, that ape-tech is monkeyballs. :D

[ThisIsAdamB]

Actually, it's spelled "AipTek", so I think it would be minkeyballs.

[skate0721]

Zing

[lewistpaul]

fantastic vid :D

[bobafett2007dk]

Adam, i heard you on Alfreds webcast, taking about the sync of the video, there is an app for the ipod called islate, its a digital clapper, you could ofcourse use the clock on the phone, but this looks more pro and fun :-)

[freekuvnatur]

Aiptek= fail

[NorCalExplorer]

You are using imovie 06? I guess if your use to something you tend not to want to change. Look forward to see the edited movies done with Final Cut Express. I use imovie 09 which is night and day with imovie 08. Great videos as always.

[NorCalExplorer]

You are right the atech looks and sounds terrible. The sanyo looked good. flip is ok. How much for the flip?

[BobbyBrady2000]

GREAT VID! LOTS OF WORK THOU! :)

[kusty91]

i have an a-tech. i only good use for it is recording tv shows or movies, or recording game play.

[HBeagley]

The A-Tech Camera Has The Worst Picture And Sound everything looks yellow and washed out and the Audio sound poor

[thefsxflyer]

Awesome editing!!! Very very creative.

[KrizzyB]

lol amazing :P

i have a hard time trying to edit two cameras to work the same timeline from the two angles...this must have taken a while to get all in sync.

[Stevenup7004]

Love the Xacti and the Flip. This should be featured.

[coverstreet2009]

I thought you gave the Flip a bum rap; it performed pretty well. The iSight looks pretty awful; take a screwdriver to that thing! ;)

[ThisIsAdamB]

The Flip is great, it's just been outclassed in my collection by the new Sanyo, so I don't really need it anymore. The iSight is built in and meant primarily for web chatting. The lens might need cleaning, though...

[cjmillsnun]

:O and damage a beautiful MacBook? It's not designed for youtube, it's for skype and the like, and it is great for this purpose. I know because I am on skype for about 8 hours a day.

[mrbit10]

loved this video, well done.

[kathie1213]

Go with the wide angle. Excellent quality.

Bravo on the editing.

[lamelama22]

I think your tape camera was the best overall... the Flip looked great with enough light / fixed focus... but the tape was definitely better than all the rest.

[grayfox106]

Nice work on the editing! i would of given up after the first 2 hours lol. the flip looks nice, but as you say, it needs a good light source.

[OSXEffects]

i like the flip camera, looks very nice.

Some very good editing you are doing there, what program did you edit it in?

[ThisIsAdamB]

This was done (like all my movies) in iMovie HD (aka '06). I also used a spreadsheet to build my edit list, frame by frame... If I want to get more advanced, I'll probably skip the newest iMovies, go straight to Final Cut Express.

[demyrik]

nice cameras,very good editing

[igeekone]

I Xacti wins for widescreen support and great audio and video tones and clearity.

[techkid100]

I like the flip camera, where did you get it from and at what price?

In £'s please.

Thanks

Ed

[macwrite]

Now you need to do a video showing your camera's for us. Love this video it's very very well done! You could have edited it allot quicker in FCE4.

[mblaine01]

I really liked that wide lens camera you were using... very good picture.

[LelouchLamperouge019]

The Xacti Wins.

[davey9449]

Actually The Apetac And Theisight is quite fimiliar

[colinstu]

Wow, that must of been a pain to edit.

[ThisIsAdamB]

Like you wouldn't believe. The 1st 4 hours were me just coming up with a method (spreadsheet with 1 row for each second, 30 cols for the frames, watching each track many times, picking edit points, etc.), the last 6 (all today) cutting and re-cutting and reassembling the pieces. Fixing mis-aligned frames (Frigging Aiptek, off by 5 frames, every clip had to be re-done), trimming frames duped from one to the next. I had odd math-related issues from my spreadsheet, all sorts of stuff. Not again....

[shaggyolsen]

i got it sell some on ebay ppl will buy from you

i no i wood if i had money

[dfoggin]

Cool video! If you are gonna start using the Sanyo in the future (which I would recommend) export it in 16:9 so we don't get so much letterboxing. That was a great comparison of how much cameras depend on preferences - I'm amazed at how different the results were and how light the Flip was

[ThisIsAdamB]

I will. It's just that here I had four 4:3 tracks and only the one 16:9. I decided to allow iMovie to shrink down the one track rather than expand the other four.

[dfoggin]

Yeah, does make it a bit easier. Quite an editing feat, though! You seemed to match it up perfectly! Did you switch audio and video every time or did you keep an audio track going?

[ThisIsAdamB]

I thought about using one camera's audio all the way through (actually that would have been helpful in editing, anchoring frames to my dialog), but I decided if I'm comparing them all, I might as well do the audio as well as the video.

[KaethisNET]

I have to say, Adam B, the Flip was looking fantastic. I would reconsider getting rid of it.

[ThisIsAdamB]

No, the Flip is great, for what it is. No optical zoom, no removable storage. Those factors make it less that perfect for me and what I might like to record. Look at my "55 Seconds of the Goodyear Blimp" video. I shot that with the Flip, and I really could have used a zoom there.

[davey9449]

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