Author Topic: Video help (Read 7094 times)

Vidrazor · « **Reply #15 on:** May 04, 2007, 12:40:28 AM »

If you're using Hi-8 tape, that's at the core of your problems. The inertia of it's mass (actually more the mass of the heads) can cause your tape and heads will go out of sync during recording from vibrations. Upon playback, the signal will roll in and out of sync. MiniDV cams suffer less from this due to their smaller tape and heads, but they too can suffer from this.

Granted, you can reduce it somewhat, and fortunately you've found a sweet spot to get better tracking, but once you can record from a solid state device, your footage will look a lot smoother.

Solid state cams are going pretty cheap nowadays, you may want to look around and get some user feedback on various models. The cheapest of them will render bad MPEG (which won't look much better than what you've been getting), but mid-to-higher end will use better algorithms and get better motion tracking.

Bad high-speed motion tracking has traditionally been the bane of MPEG video, but things have improved. Some cameras will even record to other formats like standard DV direct to memory.

Mongo · « **Reply #16 on:** May 06, 2007, 09:47:55 PM »

So tell me hound do you have some video to share with the masses?

I reverse mounted the camera on my bike today only to find that I had recorded over the same tape to many times and the video basically looked like KAKA, I'll try it again next weekend!

All in all it was a good ride today had some good tunes flowing through the MP3 if the Santa Ana winds would have been a little lighter this morning would have made for a perfect day!

Vidrazor · « **Reply #17 on:** May 07, 2007, 12:23:19 AM »

I just remembered I have a pipe mount" for cameras that will easily mount on handlebars, among other things. My Fuji E-900 still camera takes videos and encodes them to MJPEG, which is actually a decent codec for motion video. I think I'll try and see if I can shoot some footage with the setup.

Too bad I didn't think about this sooner, I just put ~350 miles on my B4 today, running some back roads into the Catskills in NY state.

I have to add that I couldn't have done THAT without my AirHawk! I may be exhausted, but my ass is still in one piece!

AirHawk rocks!

06 Greyhound · « **Reply #18 on:** May 07, 2007, 02:45:33 PM »

I have some tape I shot yesterday - but sadly it is not of the quailty that I had wanted. Even with the camera cross braced it is still too heavy for the mounting system. The road I was on yesterday is in very good condition and even with a good deal of weaving between rough spots I get a lot of vibrations. (I just thought of the background music.)

I will down load a clip tonight if I get a chance and post it.

If I'm going to continue, I will have to bite the bullet and buy a digital system.

06 Greyhound · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2007, 04:36:35 PM »

I have made a DVD and a copy on my hard drive but I seem to have problems uploading it to photobucket.
It selected the mpeg without problem and accepted the name and when I hit upload it said uploading 0% and stayed that way.
I tried a few times and always the same non result. Should it take 15 minutes and still show 0% uploaded. the clip is only about 12 minutes long.
Or am I way over the clip limit for photbucket, there was no error message.

stormi · « **Reply #20 on:** May 10, 2007, 07:24:01 PM »

How big is your 12 min file? If it's an mpeg that's DVD quality, it will be HUGE.

Mongo · « **Reply #21 on:** May 10, 2007, 08:35:48 PM »

Photobucket will limit you to a 5-minute video clip if you go the free route and a 10-minute clip for the $25 annual upgrade you are limited to 100 MB files with the upgrade

My last video was saved as an Mpeg 2 file at 640 x 480 with a data rate of 100Kbits/sec the file size 96.3 MB

If it shows 0% after 12 minutes your file IS TO BIG I guess size matters here. I made the same mistake and it took me a while to figure out the file was too large!
Hope this helps try cutting your videos into 5-minute segments and it should work!

Vidrazor · « **Reply #22 on:** May 10, 2007, 09:37:42 PM »

Try making a Quicktime MOV file with the H264 codec. Make sure you use a codec on the audio as well, like MP3 or AAC. You can also make it a bit smaller, 400x300 is fine.

Although the Windows Media codec is actually very efficient, it cuts out some users from viewing it, specifically Linux users, and Mac users without Flip4Mac (I believe VLAN on Linux allows playback of MOVs).

You can also try MPEG1. By the way, Mongo, the link to your file lists it as RIDE.FLV, which means it's a Flash video. Apparently Photobucket may take video files and recompressed them to Flash format, ala Google and YouTube.

Mongo · « **Reply #23 on:** May 10, 2007, 10:40:39 PM »

Quote from: "Vidrazor"

By the way, Mongo, the link to your file lists it as RIDE.FLV, which means it's a Flash video. Apparently Photobucket may take video files and recompressed them to Flash format, ala Google and YouTube.

BINGO!

06 Greyhound · « **Reply #24 on:** May 10, 2007, 11:14:34 PM »

Ok Back to the drawing board..
I was going to just use my Windows movie maker, but I find I have some sort of fatal error in that program, so I made my current verision on Intervideo WinDVD maker.

Mongo · « **Reply #25 on:** May 10, 2007, 11:45:36 PM »

Quote from: "06 Greyhound"

Ok Back to the drawing board..
I was going to just use my Windows movie maker, but I find I have some sort of fatal error in that program, so I made my current verision on Intervideo WinDVD maker.

Stick with it hound I'm looking forward to seeing some new videos. I picked up some new tapes and will be back at it this weekend working on the new reverse mount set up!

Mongo · « **Reply #26 on:** May 12, 2007, 11:21:01 PM »

Mongo · « **Reply #27 on:** May 23, 2007, 10:39:49 PM »

Latest invention!

Video to follow this weekend!

Mongo · « **Reply #28 on:** May 28, 2007, 11:02:55 PM »