Swagman
February 26th, 2011, 09:02 PM
I've just been playing around with the updated version of OpenShot. Hey it's really not bad at all.
My daughter asked me to film her show jumping last night so I dragged out my old but once very expensive Sony Vx9000e (http://www.ps2netdrivers.net/review/sony.dcr-vx9000e) (Full size DV) camera which has been stuck in the cupboard since I gave up filming weddings about 3 years ago. It's just too big & clunky to lug around for personal usage and I'm a bit of a hoarder to get rid of it although I think I've well missed the boat in terms of trading it in for something newer and more manageable.
The first bit of trouble came when I raised the cam to my shoulder. The Event owner immediately came over questioning me assuming I was a commercial venture... Just because it's a big video recorder. After my daughter explained it's only to film her for personal usage I got the go ahead. Quite ironic it should cause such as stir as the max res it films at is 720 x 576 @ about 700 lines in uncompressed DV. New handy cams now have a higher res !!
Anyway.. I filmed her achieving first place taking care not to film anyone else. Next day the next problem reared it's ugly head.
I have upgraded my Pc considerably since "those days" and no longer had XP installed (been pure Ubuntu for yonks). Needles to say I couldn't whack another hard drive in with XP on it as I have only Sp1 & update disk to Sp2. Those that know will realise that to install SP1 you need a floppy drive to install sata drivers. This Mobo has no floppy port and I really can't be arsed spending hours googling a way round it when it's only for this project.
So I updated OpenShot which I had installed on here just for the craic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic).
Hey, this new version aint bad. I am used to Full pro MediaStudioPro which obviously has ALL the features but quickly found my way round OS. Only shortcomings immediately apparent were the lack of wipes (page peels etc) and zooming to individual frames, otherwise.. We are rocking. In fact I think it should be default install in Natty.
Next issue relates to my camera again... I really think it must have a CCD failing or something like that as the quality really was down A LOT. Footage under what I filming (being wiped with new footage) was rich, high quality footage.
That was the last straw .. I did some googling and decided on a Sony HDRCX130EB Handycam Camcorder due to be released on March 10th from that big river place !!
Here's the footage edited & rendered in OpenShot for those inquisitive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFtXANACNI
Anyway.. Kudos to the OpenShot team
My daughter asked me to film her show jumping last night so I dragged out my old but once very expensive Sony Vx9000e (http://www.ps2netdrivers.net/review/sony.dcr-vx9000e) (Full size DV) camera which has been stuck in the cupboard since I gave up filming weddings about 3 years ago. It's just too big & clunky to lug around for personal usage and I'm a bit of a hoarder to get rid of it although I think I've well missed the boat in terms of trading it in for something newer and more manageable.
The first bit of trouble came when I raised the cam to my shoulder. The Event owner immediately came over questioning me assuming I was a commercial venture... Just because it's a big video recorder. After my daughter explained it's only to film her for personal usage I got the go ahead. Quite ironic it should cause such as stir as the max res it films at is 720 x 576 @ about 700 lines in uncompressed DV. New handy cams now have a higher res !!
Anyway.. I filmed her achieving first place taking care not to film anyone else. Next day the next problem reared it's ugly head.
I have upgraded my Pc considerably since "those days" and no longer had XP installed (been pure Ubuntu for yonks). Needles to say I couldn't whack another hard drive in with XP on it as I have only Sp1 & update disk to Sp2. Those that know will realise that to install SP1 you need a floppy drive to install sata drivers. This Mobo has no floppy port and I really can't be arsed spending hours googling a way round it when it's only for this project.
So I updated OpenShot which I had installed on here just for the craic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craic).
Hey, this new version aint bad. I am used to Full pro MediaStudioPro which obviously has ALL the features but quickly found my way round OS. Only shortcomings immediately apparent were the lack of wipes (page peels etc) and zooming to individual frames, otherwise.. We are rocking. In fact I think it should be default install in Natty.
Next issue relates to my camera again... I really think it must have a CCD failing or something like that as the quality really was down A LOT. Footage under what I filming (being wiped with new footage) was rich, high quality footage.
That was the last straw .. I did some googling and decided on a Sony HDRCX130EB Handycam Camcorder due to be released on March 10th from that big river place !!
Here's the footage edited & rendered in OpenShot for those inquisitive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szFtXANACNI
Anyway.. Kudos to the OpenShot team