HP v5040u video test at 1280x720

Waterfall test of the HP v5040u at 1280x720. Camera has two HD settings, 1920x1080 and 1280x720. Has mono sound, but hears better than most camcorders. No external mic jack. Has camera tripod but did not use here. You would have to spend over $700 to get a better video quality than this. Has 4X digital zoom which is clear throughout the range. At 4x it is about 1.5 times that of the human eye sees. Compact and easy to carry. I get 16 minutes of video per gigabyte at 1920x1080 dpi. Uses a standard PR60 camera battery and standard High Capacity SD memory card. Has low light setting for indoors. Macro goes down to 7 inches. Overall great point and shoot camcorder. Works really well with green screen and blue screen video shoots.

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[kimbeanie]

If you have low sound, it is the camera's sound chip. I am lucky mine worked fine. The best thing to do is import it into a video editor that allows for increasing the volume. I like Magix Movie Edit Pro v17 for that. You can boost the volume as much as +20db per track. It also comes with a audio clean up utility. Outside of that there is not much you can do. One solution is to carry a digital voice recorder and external mic as backup.

[kimbeanie]

@kimbeanie The video format is H.264 compression with a .AVI file extension. In HD 1080i, or 720 it shoots at 60 frames per second. At Wide Screen lower (VHS Quality) resolution, and at 640x480 it is 29.997 frames per second. All resolutions still uses H.264 with a .AVI extension. If your video editor cannot handle H.264 or 60 frames per second, most any video converter will allow for conversion to something you can use.

[kimbeanie]

Sounds like you have a defective camera. If the SD card fails to work, the camera IC chip is defective.

[kimbeanie]

I have posted a low light, night shot on this channel so you can see how it works. I am finding that about one camera out of six does not seem to live up to the one I have for some reason. I lucked out and got a real good one. If yours is not working right, return it for another. The one I have is perfect for point-and-shoot videos.

[kimbeanie]

How do I make it HD? There is several settings. [1] 1920x1080, [2] 1280x720, [3] 640x360, [4] 640x480, [5] 320x240 dpi. To edit, I use Movie Edit Pro 17 and post as a .MOV or .WMV file at 1280x720 dpi.

[SawyerDangerous]

What is the video format?

[jorgemejor]

i have the same camera but the sound is very low

do u know how to fix it

[kimbeanie]

@YoungAndPrepping There is a flashing red dot on the view screen that tells you if you are recording.

[animefrk99]

I have this camera, but it won't come on if i have a sd card in it. Any ideas?

[kimbeanie]

About the sound, you may not have the audio codec. Try using a converter program like Format Factory to see if you can convert it where your computer will play it. If not there is a website called "Free Codecs" you can get audio and video codec from. That lets you play the sound. Also try VLC player (freeware) to play the videos with.