Saturday, September 22, 2007

New Camcoder..

Hey all! Today, with the help of my sissy, I purchased a very nice camcorder. It's a HDD camcorder, which means it doesn't have a tape or mini-dvd, but rather a hard drive like a computer. It has a 20GB hard drive which allows you to record 4.5 hours of high quality dvd video, or you can drop the quality some and get a whopping 25 hours of record time. Below is a sample clip that I took of Mr. Peanut himself! Another nice thing about this new camcorder is it records in mpeg2 format (which is dvd standard) and all you do is hook it up to the USB and copy the clips right off of the unit. Then you use your favorite dvd creation software to make your very own dvd. I think I'm gonna try the dvd maker software that comes included in Vista. I used the movie maker software to convert the video to a more compressed format so I could upload the clip to YouTube. I'm so excited that I can now take some very good quality video clips of the family and share them with my family :) Yay! Oh and for those of you that don't already know (Jill), I got a stupendous deal on the unit... $99 w/o tax. It's a refurb model that looks as though it has not been maybe barely touched. Sad thing is I didn't get any of the nice things that come with a selling unit. They have a camera bag, remote, tripod... my unit was battery, charger, usb cable. No software, which I don't really mind because I would use something else anyways. All for now, FLIP!

4 comments:

Bryan said...

Sweet bro, now you'll have to mail me some DVDs of this stuff. :)

Scott said...

you know it bro!!

Unknown said...

Cool. Now you can make me DVDs too. I'll get to see that sweet little baby all the time!

Scott said...

Yep, can't wait to get enough video to make my own dvd! :)