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How HotForWords makes her HD videos

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  • Started 1 year ago by HotForWords
  • Latest reply from Captain Jack

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  1. HotForWords
    Key Master

    I keep getting asked how I make my HD videos.. so here is an attempt to explain how.

    First of all, I shoot with a Sony HVR-V1U which is an awesome camera. It looks like more camera than it is... it's basically a video camera that shoots in a form of compressed HD. You can get it discounted at Amazon.

    I put the camera on a tripod, turn the screen around so that I can see myself and then record.

    Then I bring it into my Mac and edit in Final Cut Pro.

    I then output the final product at 1280x720 H.264 at 4mbps and 128kbs aac audio actually aac is no good it hickups in HD mode.. I am going (Apple) loss-less audio from now on.

    The file sizes are large and it takes forever to compress.. but I think the results are worth the wait.

    Here are a couple of my videos in HD:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P6kswFyiqY&fmt=22
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr81tW_u5aI&fmt=22
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_PbFDsyKQU&fmt=22

    Go ahead and ask me any more questions you may have.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. pedanticKarl
    Member

    First

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. HotForWords
    Key Master

    Nice one pedantickarl!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. HotForWords
    Key Master

    testing speed of post... seems slow...

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. pedanticKarl
    Member

    Thank you Marina for this forum, a great new addition.
    The file sizes that are cached in FLV are about 60-80 MB.
    The old 8 M is now 80 M
    Time to get more disk space. Gatta have it, as Buck says.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. bsomebody
    Member

    Maybe I can, eventually get the hang of some of this techy stuff ... we'll see.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. CheVolay
    Member

    Here to learn

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. HotForWords
    Key Master

    test again

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. HotForWords
    Key Master

    test afain

    Posted 1 year ago #

  10. pedanticKarl
    Member

    Yes Marina,
    The Saving of the Post is slow, and then I get a blank page.
    Thank you for hosting it in your site.
    Mannnnnm, you are the geeeekiest geek. I loooooovvvvvve it!!!!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  11. HotForWords
    Key Master

    test

    Posted 1 year ago #

  12. bsomebody
    Member

    Maybe I can, eventually get the hang of some of this techy stuff ... we'll see.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  13. CheVolay
    Member

    After I made my first post The page disappeared,
    test post to see what happens
    Edit, it works now, first time using edit
    is there a time limit on how long we can go back and edit?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  14. HotForWords
    Key Master

    OK.. disabled a plugin that I think was causing the problem. Should be fast now.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  15. CheVolay
    Member

    'Key Master' Oh! What's the safe word?
    Do I have to be serious here?
    OK I'll be at my best model behavior

    Posted 1 year ago #

  16. Warren
    Member

    Hello Marina,
    You're the best. Thanks for sharing.
    I just like to see how it's done.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  17. CheVolay
    Member

      buy camera, read manual, trim tree

    Posted 1 year ago #

  18. CheVolay
    Member

    Oh I just found out how to start a new thread, anyone can do this?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  19. HotForWords
    Key Master

    Yes Che Volay

    Posted 1 year ago #

  20. Greatest Potential
    Member

    Wow, that's some camera. You could film the next Star Wars movie with that baby. I've gone with Sony many times since they really do make quality products.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  21. Captain Jack
    Moderator

    Hot for Video!

    Oh this is cool! Love the post editing tools. Beats copy pasting code.

    I need to learn FCP. If I teach you Karate, will you teach me FCP Kung Fu?

    __/)__

    Posted 1 year ago #

  22. Warren
    Member

    Hello Marina,
    When did you upgrade to that camera?
    I thought that you did everything with you Mac.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  23. HotForWords
    Key Master

    I got the camera a little while back.. since I moved basically as the Mac does not shoot widescreen. I tried it out a couple times back but there was no reason to shoot wide screen so I stuck with the normal 4:3 until YouTube moved to widescreen.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  24. runawayscott
    Member

    Oh I get it, just a page about tech and how you do your videos, pretty cool.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  25. PageDoll
    Member

    Just thought I'd chime in over here. That is one sweet camera. If I had that thing....oh the possibilities.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  26. Tazman
    Member

    I had to use one of these when I was doing some digtal art classes.
    They work great.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  27. Me Lika Do The Cha Cha
    Member

    Cool! James will be along shortly - LOL! Were there any aspect ratio issues going to widescreen format? Does the encoder automatically compensate or is there manual setting to apply to avoid horizontal/vertical stretching? You should get yourself the 52" HD Sony TV - awsome picture; and pick up on the surround sound system for it, too. Those tiny towers are real teeth shakers :Mr Green:

    Posted 1 year ago #

  28. HotForWords
    Key Master

    The key to getting widescreen is to upload it in widescreen. If you don't have HD, then DON'T do what James does and STRETCH it out.. as it simply looks horrible. You're better off cropping the video to 640x360 (instead of stretching out 640x480) then uploading that.

    If you want HD, then you have to start with 1280x720 footage from an HD camera and upload at that resolution.

    I lose my ability to zoom in, etc. now that I shoot at 1280x720 and output at that, but it's worth it as the quality is so awesome

    Posted 1 year ago #

  29. CheVolay
    Member

    Why do you lose the ability to zoom in HD?
    Is this true with all HD cameras?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  30. Fianchetto
    Member

    Oof! THAT camera ain't in the budget for this year! maybe after that new Aptera comes out...

    But that's WAAAY more camera than I'll ever need, anyway. I only expect to be no more than a mere hobbyist with this thing. Maybe I can get something that'll work for me on the cheap somewhere, but my el cheapo laptop cam just won't cut the mustard. Probably wouldn't cut warm butter, either, to complete the analogy...

    Thanks for hosting this nifty new forum! this should be fun!

    Ciao,
    Fianchetto

    Posted 1 year ago #

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