Anyone good with camcorders? Talking more smaller handheld units...any general tips for shooting? I want to try to take more videos, might buy one of those HD camcorders for fun and profit!
buy a really good tripod if you want to produce anything remote to professional quality ...or so say my friends who have experience
Yeah, I'm leaning more towards the travel adventure, life documentary, lifecasting thing. Keeping things compact. I need to get a steadier arm.
I have a flip, it broke on me. returned it, it broke again. then they stopped responding to me. I liked it when it worked.
[video=youtube;XY1pm2as9xc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY1pm2as9xc[/video] using some Canon HD video from work. I like this, might get my own. (click through and watch in HD).
My digital camera take pretty decent HD video. But I want something I can market as a service (shoot video then post for people on youtube), video ads, etc.
I just bought my 10 year old son this one for xmas. Him and his friends enjoy making funny videos. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Insigni...lack/9419756.p?id=1218102199440&skuId=9419756 I might have to borrow it the next time I sneak over to HCP's house and film his sexy wife.
Hv20 or 30 is probably something you want it's pretty small and it's HD and it shoots onto sd cards. I myself have a hpx170 and a sony vx2000 but I shoot skateboarding
Yeah, I have an HF20 for work. I like it, might get one similar for myself. I have a $200 mall gift card but they only have a sony store there...don't dig Sony for some reason.
ahhh yeah, its because of their proprietary crap. The Canon has a USB where I can plug into the computer.
Any tips from shooting skateboarding? Do you mix it with music and crap? I'm thinking of trying to do some freelance shooting of surgery procedures....I've done it in the past, it gets pretty fucking tiring but If I do it freelance, I can probably charge a lot. Just have to get good at it.
yeah i mix it with music and stuff. [video=youtube;zvL2cVO05X4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvL2cVO05X4[/video] for tips id just say have a tripod especially if your shooting a surgery.... try not to be too wide but dont be too tight that you lose sight of what your trying to see especially if its moving. how do you get jobs filming surgeries? thats some shit id do just to get money im broke right now and i have to buy a 2500 lens for my HD camera haha
Get a monopod instead of a tripod. A monopod has one leg, it's a collapsible stick that you can mount your camera on. Helps to steady your shots for outdoors stuff you can use it as a hiking stick. In crowds you can hold it up high and shoot down on the crowd (or over fences, threw second story bedroom windows in your neighbors house, etc.) If you want to shoot something like skateboarding you can use it to get shots by using it to place the camera a few inches off of the ground. (Yes, the image would be recorded upside down but you can fix that in editing) Buy a good quality one. It's a collapsible metal stick that folds up small enough to fit in your pocket or camera bag. You can use it to play Light Saber or it comes in handy when you finish your hike and you find someone is breaking into your car.
