I Have Too Many Cameras

I have too many video cameras. Different types, different qualities. I wanted to do a side-by-side comparison. So I tried using them all at once. I did my best to make sure that if I'm looking at a camera, that's the camera you see me through.

This was a blisteringly difficult edit for me, taking over ten hours, including a couple of false starts, picking shots from five different cameras, building an edit list, and fixing the inevitable mistakes. This was an interesting experiment for me, but I don't think I'll try anything like it again soon...

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• multiple
• video
• cameras
• sharp
• dv
• flip
• aiptek
• sanyo
• xacti
• macbook

[macman2256]

Awesome editing, Its crazy how much time it takes to edit these movies. Well Done!

[ThisIsAdamB]

Thank you. Many, many hours of editing... Many, many, many....

[bamdadkhan]

we miss you, adam b. wish you'd make more videos. this one is, for instance, fantastic. :)

btw, that ape-tech is monkeyballs. :D

[ThisIsAdamB]

Actually, it's spelled "AipTek", so I think it would be minkeyballs.

[OSXEffects]

i like the flip camera, looks very nice.

Some very good editing you are doing there, what program did you edit it in?

[ThisIsAdamB]

This was done (like all my movies) in iMovie HD (aka '06). I also used a spreadsheet to build my edit list, frame by frame... If I want to get more advanced, I'll probably skip the newest iMovies, go straight to Final Cut Express.

[aaabatry]

nice video... even though you have too many cameras, they're all crap.. make a good investment and buy a HDV camera! those puppies are AMAZING!

[Incredible462]

very original idea for a video :)

[thepod96]

I know this is old and you've probably sold the Flip by now but I much, much, MUCH prefer the Flip video in this video to all the other camera sources. It's brighter, has better audio quality, and is more smooth.

[StreetyKing]

Pro editing skills! great video.

[DeanKoon]

Adam, HELP!!

?Sanyo exati? , if you were to buy a new camera 2day which would you buy? I need a new camera do you recommend the sanyo today for me to buy what was the price how many pixels whats the top camera these days @ a reasonable price$ ???

[freepatriot]

Adam, do any of these cameras accept a line in for audio (so you can run the output of a mixer into the camera's audio in) ?

[freepatriot]

Haha I just caught the joke of why the intro has what sounds like a Borg Collective saying "This Is AdamB"

[freepatriot]

This was great. I bet you didn't realize how much additional work you were making for yourself every time you averted your gaze from one camera to another.

[djneo92nl]

i have 3

[ellendegeneresinamin]

I have that green camera, but mines blue. It doesn't work that well with Macs but I like it.