So yesterday I gave the Movie-Pix HD mini-cam a whirl to see if it might be of use for the next season of Handful. Amongst other muckings around, we have this spontaneous...interview?
It's not a bad little fellow, filming in a perfectly acceptable resolution...but it loses quality when there is any serious motion. My pal and sometimes cameraman/collaborator Mark theorized that this may be because it almost certainly only records one frame out of thirty - which would make sense since it's files are ungodly small for filming in high definition at a 1280 x 720 frame rate.
All this might have been okay, except the tiny mike inside it is kind of shitty? On top of that, for reasons known neither to man nor beast, the audio doesn't even show up at all in my editing software. The device comes with it's own proprietary video software but that sort of thing always makes me hell of wary. I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO TAKE A PEEK THOUGH.
On the plus side it can take an external memory card. 8 GB's get's me just over four hours at top resolution and the card only cost $20, which brought the total cost up to about the same as a Flip Mino (which I was first looking at).
In the end, unless I discover some rather cleverly hidden features which aren't even listed in the manual, I think I'll be taking this guy back. It's annoying though, since this is very close to what I want to try using for the show! FUGGIN' UNSATISFACTORY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAKE FIRST WORLD HULK MAADDDDDDD
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The "Minno" you were telling me about the other day advertises the fact that it captures thirty frames per second, if that's any help? It might be a little better in that department, though I doubt it'll be any less like a webcam in terms of the pixelation and whatnot!
A little? The big problem is really the sound and the stupid arse proprietary software which is seemingly all I am allowed to use to extricate the footage. I'm going to look at some stuff with Paw soon, I'll almost certainly post on here with the results.
I'm really anxious to get my hands on a camera or two so I can get things out quicker and with more control over the process. I really wanna make more stuff
You were seen in Ottawa this week.
What were you doing with that slice of wedding cake and the chocolate fountain?
Toronto must be missing you!
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