Lake Monroe Scenes

[020640121953]

Thanks for this video of the St Johns it is beautifully done.

[JazzFiveO]

Wonderful images, thanks for the video, am getting this camera

[Nihilism13]

Haha, this camera is so ridiculous. So crisp. Great work. I take it, it has a tripod mount and manual exposure?

[LGwalt]

@Nihilism13 Yes, to the tripod mount. The exposure is automatic, so you have to be aware of how light affects the picture, whether shooting downsun, upsun, low light, etc. With experience and careful placement you can generally get very good results, and it's amazing playing your recordings back thru a HD monitor (better than what you see here). There IS a manual focus setting for extreme close ups (a few inches).

[Nihilism13]

Awesome. I'm looking for a little flip cam for the run and gun type situations. This looks like a good one. The images you have captured look amazing. Too bad there is no manual exposure. I guess that would defeat the purpose of camera itself.

[razor3003]

Beautiful video...I think Kodak owes you some money. Since you downconverted to 720p, do you think the Kodak Zx1 in 720p would be anywhere close to the same quality? ☼

[LGwalt]

Perhaps not a difference in resolution, maybe in the quality of how the unit handled the lighting (or lack of it in some cases).

[shortattentionspan1]

Hi Larry, Wow! I read your review and now I am going to look at your grillin' with Brian clip.

I am almost sold on this little camera - What I want to use it for is to mount a threaded rod for a camera mount to the front and back of my ski boot and shoot clips of various runs at my favorite ski resort, Stevens Pass WA, is what I propose feasible?

I use final cut express and an iMac for the editing.

[LGwalt]

I don't know why that wouldn't work. Since there will be so much motion in your video you might consider shooting at 720p at 60 frames per second.

[noboag]

Outstanding!!! I just ordered the camera and a bunch of accessories. I hope I can produce videos just as great as this one. Excellent work.

[CaliforniaTravelTips]

Nice stuff. I read the review as well and came here to check out the quality. Quite nice! What is your opinion on the built-in audio? I have a high-quality Sennheiser wireless mic as well.

[LGwalt]

The built-in mic is OK, you can hear it for yourself if you view my video "Grillin' With Brian" under my name (LGwalt). I'm sure your Sennheiser would give a better result. I sometimes use a stereo microphone (I didn't in the Grillin' video) and it's really very nice.

[CaliforniaTravelTips]

Thanks! I'll check it out. I just brought my new camera home and I'm playing around with it. Just shot a test video. Do you upload the mov file direct to YouTube or did you play around with the file in another program? I'm used to more pro equipment and use Final Cut for most of my stuff. I'm amazed at this quality for quick little videos!

[LGwalt]

I use Final Cut in my work (I'm a producer of educational DVD's for Third Millennium Ministries) but for the videos you see here I use a much simpler program - Corel Video Studio Pro x2. I shot the original in 1080p, but VS Pro has a little difficulty with the native file from Kodak, so I run them thru Oxelon to convert them to 720p. You won't have to do that in Final Cut, although it will help if you have a Mac Pro.

[supermommyk]

Great video. I loved the review too. I will order the Zi8 right now

thanks

[gfhexeter]

I also came here after reading your Amazon review. The video quality is far better than I expected from this price of video cam. Thanks for giving me so much information, and a great video to see.

[candygirlnj19666]

I also came here from the amazon Kodak Zi8 review and think the quality is fantastic! Beautiful!!

[cochrankath]

Thanks. Am I correct in assuming you use Final Cut on a Mac?

[LGwalt]

Yes, a Mac Pro. I do professional editing for a living and it is a great program.

[cochrankath]

My husband uses the same setup, so I have access to it, though I'm not very experienced at using it.

I'm looking forward to learning!

[cochrankath]

Another question: How did you achieve such smooth results? Did you do that in post? The quality is really remarkable!

[LGwalt]

The video was originally shot in 1080p, but the Corel suite I used to edit was having a little trouble working easily with it, so I downconverted it to 720p via a program called Oxelon. Almost all the shots were done with a tripod, even the driving scenes. At work I have a professional editing program called Final Cut, which has a "Smooth Cam" capability, to take the jitters out of a handheld shot. I did not use it for this video.

[cochrankath]

Thank you! What a beautiful piece.

[cochrankath]

I also came from Amazon -- gorgeous video! I grew up in Jacksonviile near the St. Johns River and this seriously makes me homesick. Would love to know what the music is.

[LGwalt]

I'm on the road and can't access my Itunes account, but that is a second movement from "A Downland Suite" by John Ireland.

[makatr0n]

i came here from your amazon review on the kodak Zi8 and its amazing!!