So why is it taking so long to get the video off a little consumer camera? Because I bought the camera half a generation too soon.
Now to be fair, the process only really started a few weeks ago after the holidays were over. Work, holidays, etc made it go on the back burner. The first two videos were from the opening day where I only used the one, newer camera. Those were a snap to edit together, although I still have to deal with the audio and titles.
But the holidays ended four weeks ago.
Once I got back to the regular show, I found I was going to need that other camera. I'll talk more about why in another post. For now whats important is that JVC's original HD Everio camera format wasn't very friendly to editing applications. The TOD files (that was the camera creates) can sometimes be imported and sometimes can't. To shorten this a bit, I found I was going to have to do an old fashion playback from the camera and capture into the computer, the same way you do with older pre-digital video cameras. I could loose quality and just use analog out, but instead I purchased a recorder that would let me record the HDMI (digital signal) straight from the camera. It has its own problems, mainly that it needs a super fast hard drive system. To make that happen, we have been moving enough data around to free up four hard drives that will be combined to get enough speed. I got that done, only to find my computer, or more specifically the motherboard, didn't like this. At one point, I thought I was going to have rebuilt the whole thing. So now I have to order yet another part. A little raid controller to run the four hard drives. That means yet another week gone. Well, at least I can spend that time getting back to photography. Considering this is my third post, and I haven't really talked cameras, photos, or photography, nor have I even posted a photo, I intend to get that fixed tomorrow.
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