Here's a 'bite' from the Yahoo NewspaperVideo group: Aiptek ( http://aiptek.com/ ) just came out with a HD 720p digital recorder that will put an hour of h264 .mov on a 2GB SD card. It's $300. Canon's coming out with the TX1 720p point-n-shoot that's $500. Why can't I get a real video camera that [...]
Here's a 'bite' from the Yahoo NewspaperVideo group:
Aiptek ( http://aiptek.com/ ) just came out with a HD 720p digital recorder that will put an hour of h264 .mov on a 2GB SD card. It's $300. Canon's coming out with the TX1 720p point-n-shoot that's $500.
Why can't I get a real video camera that will do the same thing? Give me 1080 HDV on tape and compressed 720p on an SD card — at the same time. Make sure I can edit it without rendering. I want one now. I'll gladly pay the extra $500.
Thank you for listening…
Chuck
FLASH VIDEO
This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. It is using a compressed domain transcoder technology. It converts FLV to MPEG4 faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder.
When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.
FLASH FUN
http://www.this-play.nl/timespace/
Nice catch by David Barreda (my awesome collegue) I don't understand it yet, but it's cool.
THE FUTURE OF VISUALIZATION
A lesson learned:
I was playing around with this visualizer yesterday, trying to figure it out, when my 9-year-old pushed me aside an took control. "That looks cool, what is it?" She 'got it' right away and LOVES it. Hmmm.
The Fidg't Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. You interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag.
This simple mechanic lets you visualize your Network in a unique way, demonstrating its Predisposition towards certain things. What is more popular amongst people in your Network – rock or electronic music? Are photos of buildings more popular than photos of sunsets? Based on how your network reacts to those Tags, you might get an answer. The Visualizer also shows how your Network compares to a random sampling of the networks of other Fidg't users, letting you see how your network stacks up to others?
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enjoy,
-r
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2 Responses
My questions for that $300 camera.
How big is the ccd?
Can you import those h.264 files into QT Pro? iMovie and FCP?
Probably not if it is anything like the other h.264 native cams out there.
Panasonic has some great new, small camcorders with 3CCD chips, 5:1 audio, Leica lenses built in and they record 90 minutes on a 4GB SD flash memory chip.
And the video is saved in AVCHD which is based on h.264 but you can’t directly import the files into any Apple-based video editor.
At least not yet. When Apple lets AVCHD in the door then that $1,300 Leica HD cam is going in my bag.
Getting HD files in h.264 files on flash memory are certainly promising for news gatherers but if we can’t bring them directly into the Mac editing environment – then what’s the point?
Free convert flv online http://www.convertdirect.com