21 Mar
2006
21 Mar
'06
7:46 a.m.
Hi Gene,
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 20 March 2006 18:28, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
wrote:
The reviews I've read say that it's actually fairly light since it's
made of ABS instead of metal, so it's not as top heavy as it looks,
apparantly.
I'm shopping for new camcorder and am
considering getting a "shotgun"
mic for it. I wondered if anyone here has any experience with these.
I'm looking at the Rode VideoMic:
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VideoMic/
That looks A: like a pretty decent
mic for the bucks, but be aware that
the AUD vs USD will eat a lot of that so-called discount.
And B: an odd shock mount which leads me to ask how fragile in might be
in the field as it sure looks top heavy and the photo doesn't seem to
show much bracing in the roll direction. I like that spl rating of 131 db though, you are not
going to be able to
overload that mic without wearing some 30db gun muffs like I use at the
target range.
Raw video, with decent audio quality, in real time via ieee1394 is the
main thing I'm after. Not necessarily going direct to disk, though. The
main purpose is streaming talks live in ogg theora with icecast from
LAC2006, DCLUG, BWBUG and maybe, if I can ever get myself out to
Chantilly on first Saturday mornings, NovaLUG as well. Joern and I did
this at LAC2005 and I've done a few DCLUG, BWBUG meetings and one SBE
meeting since, but am looking to get my own gear so I can do this
outside of RFA without relying on their equipment.
I've pretty much settled on the Panasonic
PV-GS300 camcorder. Any
experiences or opinions on that are also welcome.
No experience there, other than
to comment that I have a Sony TRV-460
digital hi8 that I'm plumb in love with. I shot a wedding with it last
spring that came out very well. It has a firewire port so I can upload
raw video in real time, but that needs lots of free space on your hard drive for half an hour. That 20 minute wedding was
over 3.8GB IIRC.
But kino had no problems editing out my shakes. And the resultant
videocd I burned several copies of smunched that down to about 340 megs
with no visible loss of quality that I could see, and it played in
everybodies cd readers as far as I know, in addition in my own dvd
player, an el-cheapo Apex.
Ok, I'll stay away from there for now. I do have an interest in that
stuff, but it's lower on the priority list for now.
Also, is there any such thing as a
linux-video-users list where this
might be more on-topic? I remember seeing a linux-video-developers
list in someone's sig here or on lad, but can't recall the URL and
didn't know if a video-user's question would be on-topic for that
list anyway.
Well, there is the video4linux list, but its rather hardware/software
drivers for the hardware centric with little of the video artistic
crowd around. Personally I feel its more on topic on this list than
that one, but thats just me being practical. "Here be the artists" IMNSHO, and thats
meant as a complement to this
crowd. As an opinionated, experienced old engineer, they 'tolerate' me
for the most part :)
:)
Thanks again.
-edrz