Poster: A snowHead
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Hi. I realise its not directly a skiing question, but as I only bought the camcorder for skiing, I thought I would drop it here. Does anyone film skiing videos with a fisheye lense? My new camcorder films in 1080 but my computer struggles to edit it as smoothly as 720 and MPEG2, therefore, I maty have to drop the video to 720. The only problem is that the camcorder films the 720 with fisheye, which is OK, but just wandering if it will wreck ski videos.
Ive checked the youtube and they seem OK, but just wandering peoples opinions
I may have to combine filming in fisheye 720 and using the camcorder on the camera for quick editing shots
Sorry not diectly a ski question, but just trying to get some help
thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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transcode your 1080p videos to something your computer can handle, another snowhead will probably be able to advise the best format but if your camcorder is outputting something like H.264 it is extremely cpu intensive.
I don't quite understand why your camcorder records fisheye at 720. I have a proper wide angle lens for my camcorder which can be useful for getting good mountain shots.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If you're filming with fisheye, you really need to be able to steady your shots, i.e. use panning tripods. Fisheye warps the perspective; when you add motion, the perspective lines of all objects in frame constantly warp. If your shots are unsteady, it makes for uncomfortable viewing, inducing something akin visual motion sickness. I wouldn't recommend using a fisheye lens for handheld motion capture.
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thanks, davidof, its not so much a fisheye, but a stretched wide-angle lense (160'). Spoken to a few people and it sounds its more likely my computer that cant manage the higher quality video to edit. (havent got software to edit from 1080 AVI to another format - dont want to download freeware as this will slow down my already-slow computer!)
Getting the spec of computer tonight and daddy-ford can upgrade it for me. Prob need more RAM and decent procesor.
The 1080 works great straight from the Camcorder when playing on TV, so will see how it goes when upgrade speed etc
thanks again for all info. Want to film everything in 1080 as thats why I bought the camera/ WOuldnt mind buying a new compurter, so may just go & do that
thanks again
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