Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala [1080p HD via Sony DSC-HX5V]

[simysimss]

some really good stuff here

[Emmely454]

Wauw, that was amazing! But isn't it really dangerous to be so close to an erupting volcano?

[hpaulmoon]

@Emmely454 I suppose so! And it erupted really badly just a month after I shot this footage, causing lots of damage across a large region. That certainly shows the difference between the litigious protections of U.S.A. parklands, versus the "proceed at your own risk" spirit in Guatemala.

[Metalhead5310]

Hey! Now I'm proud to be from Guatemala city! (:

[luanmeurer1]

hum...

[jimmyrior]

Now Thats HD

[doom705]

wow the 11 people that gave this thumbs down must be brain dead retards lol

amazing footage

[Jonabaldi]

Thanks to this great quality of video and knowing which camera was use for it, I got my own. Now I have a question for you: I tried uploading a short video I recorded with it, and the result was bad. The image was good, but the video was played in slow motion, at first I thought it was my internet, but then I tried playing it with a high speed connection and the result was the same. Also the sound was only half way, the rest was completly mute. What would you recommend?

[hpaulmoon]

@Jonabaldi The file format of this camera's video footage is AVCHD, and as far as I know, that file format cannot be uploaded raw to YouTube. In the help section here, there are specifications on how to prepare your footage for uploading, but the short of it is that you need to convert the AVCHD file to H.264.

[Jonabaldi]

@hpaulmoon Thanks a lot for your promt response, I will look into it and see if I convert the video to that file then.. Is that what you did for yours, or you just edited?

[hpaulmoon]

@Jonabaldi Both, because the editing process completes with an export to the new file format.

[TheJaraad]

@Jonabaldi I also recommend using the FLV format. AVC HD is compressed using MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 FLV is a Flash code also based on the MPEG-4 library of compression. FLV's are very lossy but they are very small in size. They render out full HD with great quality if you plan on using it for the web.

[X41N3]

thnx forur test videos with the hx5v, i've been comparing this one with the h55.

And it seemd i'm going to go with the hx5v, i'm just wondering about the pictures since people said the pictures weren't that good, but that it can take pics faster thn let's say the h55

[gersom85]

dude!!! your video is greath man!!! i'm use de CS4 to editing my stuff...

[johncolsen]

Impressive, may I ask what you have used to edit and convert with?

[hpaulmoon]

@johncolsen Premiere Pro CS5 with Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks for gradient/color/etc. filtering. Nothing fancy!

[paradisehammocks]

I keep hearing this heavy breathing throughout the video? Are you Darth Vader?

[Perfectlabios]

Amazing footage! My family and I climbed this volcano in December and it really was amazing and SCARY!! Great video!!

[pimpnoddy]

2012 is coming people be ready !!!

[qwertyu777100]

2012 is comming

[richieboyland2]

Awfull, it just erupted and now its raining ashes

[hpaulmoon]

@richieboyland2 Thanks for letting me know, I hadn't noticed that in yesterday's news. Hope you're out of harm's way and aren't writing from the region.

[richieboyland2]

@hpaulmoon Thank you very much, yes im fine and away (i dont live near there), sadly 3 people die cause of it

[josephbutch]

THUMBS UP..! wow this video is awesome i realy liked it.. =D im from Guate .. and im looking for this sony, btw any complaint about this camera?

[hpaulmoon]

@josephbutch It's by far the best-in-class (for point-and-shoots), however if I were starting over and could afford just a little more bulk, Sony has jumped into the micro-four-thirds market with their own ultra-compact cameras that have interchangeable lenses. In this respect you get much shallower depth of field and overall better picture quality. For 1080p video, you would want the NEX-5; YouTube in its paranoia doesn't allow URLs to onsite videos, so search for "Sony NEX Series Preview."

[tubewoodycool]

nice job

[Inga1121997]

super Video, super Qualität, habe auch die Sony HX5V

[Sheety33]

I don't know if your familiar with iMovie 09, but I have been using it with all my HX5V footage and trying to come up with a way to create the highest quality 1080 HD video possible, like you have here, while keeping the file size down like you have also done. Is this video file an mp4?

[Sheety33]

WOW! You did a really great job with this video! I love the shots you took of the lava flowing down the mountain! The sound track is right on with this too! I just received my HX5V the other day and have been doing a little bit of testing and find it to be a great camera. For a 2 minute long video like the one you made here, how big was the file size?

[hpaulmoon]

@Sheety33 Thanks so much. I pretty much used everything I shot, which wasn't much, and the files are small because they're AVCHD (which was designed for portable electronics). Since I used a non-linear video editor to assemble the footage, I rendered out from there to a different format, H.264, for uploading to YouTube/Vimeo. Because I chose 2-pass variable bitrate compression, the finished file size is a mere 86.7 megabytes.

[Sheety33]

@hpaulmoon Your very welcome, this is an outstanding video you put together and the colors are awesome! So you mean you shot this film using the HX5V at 1920 x 1080i @ 60i, then you took that film and rendered it through a non-linear video editor to H.264? Your file size of 86.7 MB is stunning compared to what i have been dealing with!....

[TonyEtna1987]

Great footage! Very nice.

[au1947]

very nice..