Video footage question

[Steady Eddie]

Ok ,
This has been bugging me .
When I record using the video camera , with the bullet camera attached to it , the footage always comes out very small , even though the image size setting on the video camera is set at 1024 x 728 .
I use Windows Movie maker .

Any suggestions ?

Steve

 

[LiquidLAN]

I might be talking out of my ass, but aren't the bullet camera limited in the size of image they can provide though?

 

[Eunuch]

Steve, as a bit of numpty I'm interested in the reply too.

The footage I take using a bullet cam on the bike to a MiniDV Camcorder plays back to the TV in excellent quality. Just superb. Then I try and download it thru a firewire port using Windows Movie Maker and the highest quality I can define to extract from the camcorder doesn't leave you much to play with in Movie Maker. ie, piddley resolution = small window for a decent playback.

 

[Steady Eddie]

Footage

Steve, as a bit of numpty I'm interested in the reply too.

The footage I take using a bullet cam on the bike to a MiniDV Camcorder plays back to the TV in excellent quality. Just superb. Then I try and download it thru a firewire port using Windows Movie Maker and the highest quality I can define to extract from the camcorder doesn't leave you much to play with in Movie Maker. ie, piddley resolution = small window for a decent playback.

Yeah ,
I wonder if it is something in the make up of Windows Movie maker - the footage you play back to the TV -is it full tv screen size ?

Steve

 

[Timolgra]

The link at the bottom of my post was edited with Windows Movie Maker and some was with a bullet camera, I've had no problems about the sizeing.

I have the finished film, which is a couple of minutes longer on DVD but cannot seem to upload it

 

[Steady Eddie]

The link at the bottom of my post was edited with Windows Movie Maker and some was with a bullet camera, I've had no problems about the sizeing.

I have the finished film, which is a couple of minutes longer on DVD but cannot seem to upload it

Voila...........

I went into the URL box , highlighted the text , keeping the cursor on the text [ you must keep the cursor on the text ] , right click , selected copy , then opened on this post , and right clicked again , selected paste .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcWhN65_qN4

Steve

 

[LiquidLAN]

The link at the bottom of my post was edited with Windows Movie Maker and some was with a bullet camera, I've had no problems about the sizeing.

I have the finished film, which is a couple of minutes longer on DVD but cannot seem to upload it

Cool video, looks really good!

 

[Eunuch]

Yeah ,
I wonder if it is something in the make up of Windows Movie maker - the footage you play back to the TV -is it full tv screen size ?

Steve

Steve, yes, full spanky screen as nature intended. Daz Ford Coppola! And then load it thru Movie Maker and its a tiny winy window version. I just don't get it.

I can save a video with the quality/size of yours but how do you save it to disk in full screen size/quality? Agree its going to be flippin huge but to save it onto DVD you must ned the source file on your disk first?

 

[Steady Eddie]

WMM

Steve, yes, full spanky screen as nature intended. Daz Ford Coppola! And then load it thru Movie Maker and its a tiny winy window version. I just don't get it.

I can save a video with the quality/size of yours but how do you save it to disk in full screen size/quality? Agree its going to be flippin huge but to save it onto DVD you must ned the source file on your disk first?

Dunno ,
The Windows thing has got me right cheesed off now - I just wanna know how and why .....guess what .............
SWMBO has just told me [ I'm at work at the moment ] that we have a box of tricks at home [ XMAS pressie last year - NEVER KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT ONE !!] which contains all the doings for making our own home movie DVD's ............... so I'm gonna have a crack at that with some footage I still have on the video camera [ a trundle through the countryside ] ............... BUT I STILL WANNA FIND OUT ABOUT WMM , cos I've spent enough time trying to suss it ...SOMEBODY MUST KNOW !!

Steve

 

[Eunuch]

I'm at work at the moment

You sound busy.

 

[Steady Eddie]

Busy

You sound busy.

I shouldn't be here at all !!
I only popped in cos SWMBO is in town at her works Xmas function [ I brought her in , and it's not worth the 25 mile trip home just to turn round and do it again later ] .

Someone has just pointed out that the cam settings of 1024 x 728 which I found on the menu may be for stills , and that the settings for movies might be 320 x whatever it bloody is , so that it can capture the motion without too much distortion ............. ?

Steve

 

[AndyT]

Hopefully this isn't a thread hijack but I am looking at getting a bullet camera and I've heard they are alol analogue at the moment so I will need an Camcorder with analogue AV in. Does anyone know if they do a digital bullet cam yet??

many thanks

AndyT

 

[Kritou]

Does anyone know if they do a digital bullet cam yet??
AndyT

So far I have found this http://www.paramountzone.com/action-camera.htm# but if you can find an affordable 2GB SD card to go in it you still only get 30mins recording it seems

 

[Eunuch]

So far I have found this http://www.paramountzone.com/action-camera.htm# but if you can find an affordable 2GB SD card to go in it you still only get 30mins recording it seems

Now that I like. SD cards are always coming down in price ... even the 2Gb are affordable. Do you know if it will take a 4Gb and provide an hours footage?
That looks soooo much easier to lug around when I only end up with the same resolution when I cart round the minDV and bullet cam.

 

[Steady Eddie]

1 Hr footage

Now that I like. SD cards are always coming down in price ... even the 2Gb are affordable. Do you know if it will take a 4Gb and provide an hours footage?

This one will .........

http://www.extremepie.com/ExtremePi...ry_Mens_Hardware_Helmet+Cameras/ROOT47591.htm

Steve

 

[Kritou]

Now that I like. SD cards are always coming down in price ... even the 2Gb are affordable. Do you know if it will take a 4Gb and provide an hours footage?

This one will .........

http://www.extremepie.com/ExtremePi...ry_Mens_Hardware_Helmet+Cameras/ROOT47591.htm

Steve

As your site is also selling the Tony Hawk camera perhaps it's worth asking them the question

Looks as though it has a bigger on/off switch that would be easier for gloved hands. The AV in/out would also be a plus presumably?