A random collection of videos I've made over the past few days with my new high-def camcorder.
It's partly to test YouTube's newish support for HD videos (and get me used to editing them), and part...
A random collection of videos I've made over the past few days with my new high-def camcorder. It's partly to test YouTube's newish support for HD videos (and get me used to editing them), and partly just to show off some high-resolution randomness.
Note that this should not be regarded as a full test of HD. Many of the clips are not showing the full performance of the camera due to several things including me locking the focus in a wrong position, and multiple recompressions of the video once on the computer. These are things which I intend to get better at with practise.
Things shown, in order of appearance: - Kitchen. - Snow. - Random cat. - Plane landing against a great sunset. - My bro playing part of a song he made on electric guitar. - Condensation on a window, car. - It's over 9000! ...GB - Tabby cat walking away from me. - Holly leaves, garden. - My comp failing to play MaiKaze's Touhou anime. - Birds around trees. - Papercraft Remilia in the making. (Head = hat...) - Random plant leaves and branches. - Tabby cat on chair. - Korg Radias synth. - Inside of main comp. - My brother's band from his school. - Random bird walking on path. - More from my bro's band. - Trees and plants. - My server and the weirdness on top of it. - The nastiness which is me. - Yeah, that's fine. - Closer view of a plane landing. - Me failing to jump, at high frame-rates. - My program bending Miku into a waveform. - Sleeping tabby cat. - YEEEAAAHHH! - A fire is added. Oh, wait... - Subwoofer making a memory stick fly. - Rev limiter being reached. - Food being cooked. - LAN cable spaghetti. - Seagulls and geese being fed.
Software / Camera info: The camera is a Sony HDR-SR12E. This records interlaced video at 1920x1080. I had to scale the video down to 1280x720 for YouTube. Because the video is interlaced at 25 frames/sec, when deinterlacing and keeping both fields you can get 50 FPS video. The camera has a "Smooth Slow Rec" feature which lets it record at 100 FPS for 3 seconds. Again, when deinterlacing, you can expand this to 200 FPS (1/8x speed!) without losing any frames. However, the video quality is not so high when using Smooth Slow Rec.
I used TMPGEnc 4 to deinterlace and compress the original AVCHD (MTS) files. I used Adobe Premiere Pro 7 (yep, old) to arrange the individual clips, but since I just threw them together with no fancy effects, pretty much any video-arranging program would've done the trick.
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just a tip rob, next time you upload a video in hd, leave the resolution at 1920x1080. it looks so so much better and crisper, because amazingly youtube's resizing thing seems to look really good. btw, how was abunai?
Well my ultimate goal in most of my footage is to make it into some sort of compilation in the future. So you think that the use of a "lossless codec" is best in this situation? And thanks alot, thorough explanations are very helpful haha.
Unfortunately, it was quite a while ago that I made this video, and I no longer use TMPGEnc because of its terrible instability. I now use VirtualDub and AVISynth (both of which are freeware) to deinterlace, resize, crop (duration-wise) and compress videos.
However, it's the compression (codec) settings which really affect the quality. I use XviD, set to VBR (with "quantizer scale" set to around 2 to 4), "Motion search precision" at 6, "VHQ mode" at 2 or 3 and "use chroma motion" ticked.
There are other settings on XviD, such as "Quarter pixel" and "Trellis quantisation" which help too. Trial and error is the best way to see what each thing does. However, if you're editing your video, the key to keeping the quality is to never compress (lossily) your video until the very end. Use a lossless codec such as HuffYUV or Lagarith to avoid losing quality for temporary videos,or use VirtualDub's "frame server" to eliminate the need for temporary videos. Sorry about the essay.
Thanks for explaining the deinterlacing process you used! I just bought a new camera and was annoyed at the difficulty(impossibility) i had editing footage with it. Ill try the method you explained now.
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However, it's the compression (codec) settings which really affect the quality. I use XviD, set to VBR (with "quantizer scale" set to around 2 to 4), "Motion search precision" at 6, "VHQ mode" at 2 or 3 and "use chroma motion" ticked.
Sorry about the essay.