Category: Shooting

I mentioned the other day that Canon has finally jumped into the HDV space, but maybe the XL H1 and XH G1 were just the hop and the skip, because today the company introduced the iVIS HV10, an HDV camcorder geared for consumers. Engadget has the details: Recording onto standard miniDV cassettes using the HDV ...

Richard Baguley at Macworld provides a good overview of AVCHD, the high-definition video format introduced by Sony and Panasonic and available in a set of new camcorders from Sony that I mentioned earlier this week. This all sounds good so far: We’ve got high-def video and high-quality sound in a format that doesn’t take up ...

Before I dig into the day’s work, a few items revolving around shooting video have caught my eye: Jan Ozer wrote an article for EventDV that provides a lot of valuable information on shooting with multiple cameras, in this case capturing a jazz concert. Working with multiple cameras is much more difficult in iMovie than ...

In a bit of excellent timing, I currently have a MacBook Pro and a Sony HDR-HC1 HDV camcorder for a couple of weeks (alas, I don’t get to keep either of them). I’m going to be doing some testing and shooting HD footage for the next revision of the iMovie HD/iDVD Visual QuickStart Guide, so ...

Studio Monthly has a great collection of real-world tips for shooting in HDV: <a title=" Studio Monthly | Hands-On HD: Getting the Most Out of High Def” href=”http://www.studiodaily.com/studiomonthly/tutorials/trainup/6147.html”>Hands-On HD: Getting the Most Out of High Def. (Via FreshHDV.) Okay, you’ve got the gear. (Or at least your favorite dealer lets you play with his stock.) ...

Last June, I noted JVC’s Everio line of hard drive-based camcorders. Now, Sony has introduced the DCR-SR100 ($1,100) (link via Gizmodo), a nifty camcorder with a 30 GB hard drive built in. They claim it can record up to 7 hours of DVD-quality video, but I want to know if it will record DV-quality (I’m ...

Did I mention that I’m also going to CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) this week? I’m catching the tail end of it, but already there are things that I want to make a point of seeing. For example, Sanyo’s HD1 Digital Media Camera, a super-compact HD camcorder that records directly to SD media. It boasts ...

My wife is out of town for a few days, which means I get to watch all the television I want. Mostly, this includes shows she has no interest in seeing (such as the documentary Gunner Palace, which arrived today via Netflix). Now I’m sittting on the couch, checking email, and scrolling through channels, one ...