Another Panasonic HDC-SD20 test

Another quick test of the Panasonic HDC-SD20 palm-size camcorder. Some footage of the River Medway in Maidstone, Kent. Shot on full ("intelligent") auto at 1920x1080, best quality (17Mbps). Rendered to 1920x1080 5Mbps H.264 codec for upload.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Panasonic
• HDC-SD20
• river
• medway
• maidstone
• kent
• HD
• 1920
• 1080

[oXILuvMusicXo]

i have a Question what is the bad good things about this camera?

[UKAirscape]

@oXILuvMusicXo Bad things are its ability in low light (the footage comes out quite grainy and blotchy). Good things are its size, good footage in decent daylight, and relatively intelligent auto settings (though it did have some trouble filming at an airshow recently when it lost focus on the airplanes a lot as they flew overhead)

[360xmanx360]

hi there, i use the editing program sony vegas and was wondering what are the steps to rendering it so it could come out like yours?...first i got the MTS file from the sd card and dragged it onto vegas and then what settings?

thx !

[UKAirscape]

I encode from Vegas at max 5Mbps using the MainConcept AVC/AAC (*.mp4) codec with a custom template. As I understand it, there's no point uploading anything higher res than 1280x720 to YouTube, so choose that. I use 25fps as that's the PAL frame rate, with progressive scan, square pixels of course. That's about it really!

[UKAirscape]

Of course, since I wrote that comment, YouTube has now started encoding 1920x1080 but since most people's computer screens aren't big enough to show full 1920x1080 anyway it's a bit pointless and you might as well stick to 1280x720 max

[UKAirscape]

@pabliko248 Err...no! I The only reason I can think of that it would appear to lag would be if you're watching it on a slow Internet connection or slow PC or something and the frame rate drops so it looks jerky.

[UKAirscape]

For the Panasonic in low light, take a look at my other video called "Panasonic SDC-HD20 low light test".

[MilexProductions]

how well does it manage in low light?

[Killertamagotchi1]

16 GB for about 2 to 2.5 hours in the best quality level (17MBit / s) and Dolby Digital 5.1

The standard battery holds about 2 hours and 15 minutes.

the 128 MB internal memory is intended primarily for prerec function is then the recording will start faster

[Killertamagotchi1]

in the quality level of HA is required to include a 16 GB card for 2 hours

in the middle stage, it is then almost 3 hours ;-)