Peter Mclennan
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Mike, the Creative Vado shoots in three qualities. “HD+”, “HD” and “VGA”. HD+ playback in Vegas is very poor, as I’ve posted, VGA plays perfectly in Vegas and HD plays quite well, not dropping frames at all. I see some tearing of the video during pans, but that’s probably due to my 4 year old Matrox card.
So, it’s definitely a bandwidth issue. 🙂
The good news is:
0) I can edit Creative Vado footage in Vegas
1) “HD” looks virtually as good as “HD+”
2) I don’t have to buy a Mac. : ) KIDDING, you Mac people!This is a great little camcorder. Its lens is much wider than anything else out there and that’s a VERY good thing.
Thanks for your help. All I needed was a push to do a little experimenting.
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That ain’t gonna happen. : )
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What did you mean, Mike about “spending more money”? Not buy a Mac, surely? : )
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Thanks, Mike. It’s a neat little camera, but not being able to edit is a bummer. Perhaps this picture will change if the camera becomes more popular.
What do you mean by “spending even more money”? What would I need to do. Not buy a Mac, surely? : ) : )
I’ll try a lower quality capture and see if things change.
Again, thanks!
Peter
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Thanks, Mike. I did this during my attempts at debugging the problem. In fact, timeline playback got worse when I did this. : ) After matching project properties, playback speed was unaffected, but image quality was degraded.
When I select various “preview” modes (auto, full, half or quarter) image quality changes but frame rate does not.
Again, thanks for your help so far.
Peter
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Interesting, Tony. Thanks for the input. So Firewire drive into the computer, DV cam into the drive?
It’s good to know that there’s a fallback position. -
Incredible. I’ll probably get a dual format (Firewire and USB) external drive. A 500GB should do me for a while. Are they all the same? Or should I aim for a particular brand?
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Fantastic! This will kick spots off my old Matrox Digisuite : )
Thanks, Edward