Panasonic HDC-SD20 test

A quick test of the Panasonic HDC-SD20 'full HD' consumer camcorder; I'd wandered into Maidstone to see what I could shoot and, rather conveniently, The Dualers were busking at the top of the High Street. Recorded using the camera on auto settings, with OIS on, at 'best' quality. Rendered to 1024x576 (square-pixel SD widescreen) at 5Mbps H.264 for upload.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Panasonic
• HDC-SD20
• test
• maidstone
• kent
• buskers
• busking
• dualers
• HD

[hellboy2113]

hello Can you give me the full lenght record of this song? Maybe the original file from the camera? It's a nice song and i can't find it . I also wan't to see the camera quality in full hd. Thanks.

[UKAirscape]

@hellboy2113 if you Google "The Dualers" you will find the band's website and can go from there.

[44147TV]

how could this be the best qality??? the rendering is very wrong! this is no HD! i have the same cam too and my test shoots look much better bro!.... use hd rendering 1080p ... but great track :)

[UKAirscape]

@44147TV I didn't say it was HD. In fact, if you read the description, I clearly state it was rendered to standard-definition for the purposes of uploading (though it WAS recorded in full HD in the camera).

At the time I uploaded it, YouTube didn't support HD so there was no point uploading a huge HD file.

[jedrzej09]

Please what is the title song , Thank's

[UKAirscape]

@jedrzej09 I have no idea, it's just something they were singing. I don't know anything about the band, they were just busking on the high street and I filmed it.

[UKAirscape]

@DarkSkyVideo It's not the original camera quality of course because it's been edited and re-encoded for upload, then YouTube has done its thing ... nothing on YouTube is ever "full quality". It was recorded in the camera at top quality but rendered after editing to standard-definition widescreen at 5Mbps H.264, after which YouTube re-encodes it ... there will always be some quality loss.

[DarkSkyVideo]

Is this really full quality? I don't mean to knock the camera, but the video looks blurred, no sharp edges, etc... If it's 1080HD it looks very downgraded. ( ? )

[UKAirscape]

By full auto I just mean normal automatic shooting rather than either manual mode or "intelligent auto" mode (which is activated via a button on the camera)

[paulbrasell71]

How do you get the HDC-SD20 into full auto mode?