Few tips for my friends who post their videos on youtube or document their experiments.
I also need your advise in questions I have posted below.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the meantime:
I was trying to make better video quality and more advanced equipment for my YouTube videos.
I got first D600 from Nikon I was impressed with it and all I found out is as long as you play with toys you are OK....... not good but OK.
Than you play with other more than 460 instruments in the lab and you not good in anything.
You do not have time to even touch all of the buttons.
So any time I have touched D600 I was recalling my learning curve from the first time.
Apart from that it does not really is something that I like ( just the average general public toy made for the crowd to play with.)
Than I thought than in my travels I need to document more details for later analysis .
I do not want to be again in the situation that Tariel Kapanadze or Ruslan or Akula or any other guy will just show me his FE in the dark room 5 minutes before my flight back to USA.
So conclusion was Nikon D810 but I need to learn again and find that for quick shots 36.3 MP quality is not what I need .
I decided to stay for while with D600 that is not made for rapid deployment when time to prepare is close to none.
Honestly it sucs.
-mike is catching internal motor squicks
-light adjustment is not intuitive and you can not blindly press and shot without checking first.
-light changes say on of ligt-bulb on FE device makes camera to give you completely not what you set it for.
-Slow focus and zoom.
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At the end 20 hours of trip, money spend, and all you have got as your evidence is your video material.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So I decided to try
FDR AX-100:- with
4K quality,at 30fps
-or at HD 120 fps, (60fps)
Before I spend money I look at at something often 6 months or more and than buy it used.
So I have got it for 800.. not bad at all.
Sony web offers free soft upgrade and editing program however I like Sony-Vegas better.
However
Sony Vegas Pro does not give me ability to make precise marks, pointers, comments and so on.
So I got:
BB FlashBack Pro 5 made mostly for editing of academic or educational video materials. I like it very much .
It is consuming a lot of the Hard Drive and for longer videos it is good tha have separate computer.It crashes a lot
however it allows you to work wit not much of a problem if you safe your work every few minutes.(Empty memory buffer)
Than another problem arrived incompatibility of the formats between Sony Vegas Pro and BB FlashBack Pro 5.
Any time I want to use files from one program to work with another I need to convert it and by that I lose time and often quality of the material.
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In the small places lenses of D600 and FDR AX-100 are to narrow so the device model:
0.75 Wide Converter For HD Model HD75X-EXII[/font]
0.8 Wide Converter For HD Model HD75X-EXIIWith suitable adapter rings makes trics done.
Other types offered by Sony or any other competition sucs.
However Lens weights is more than camera alone.
IF you shop around you may end up with $100 for it plus $70 for all adapters needed.
For who it may concern links are:
http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-pxw-x70-fdr-ax100/527367-wide-angle-lenses-sony-fdr-ax100.htmlhttp://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-pxw-x70-fdr-ax100/526964-x70-live-shots.html-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now Questions;
1. please give me links to professional quality programs for animation. ( so let's say I can present parts of mechanism that are
nicely separated and assembled in this animation)
2. Is anyone who is more educated in Sony Vegas Pro?
3. How can I easily go around compatibility issue between BB FlashBack Pro 5 and Sony Vegas Pro in regards to format?
4 . Any one knows better program for educational material editing than BB FlashBack Pro 5 ?
Wesley