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A video near my home in Foster City, CA USA, showing the capabilities of the $180 Canon ZR800 (aka MD101) miniDV widescreen camcorder. Shot in "neutral color" setting and then was color graded on post. Some of the shots are not steady as I couldn't fully use my tripod with that specific camera. Music and video are licensed separately under the Creative Commons "BY" 3.0 license.
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  • colorline 10 months ago
    Beautiful. I have added the video to the HD Nature Channel.
  • Adidas 7 months ago
    Mmmm it's SD though... getting the vimeo HD treatment :) Personally I think only true 720p HD should be on the HD channels.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 7 months ago
    Well, it is DVD quality. So why not get extra quality than ugly cellphone videos?
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  • Miro Kantarsky 10 months ago
    Great looking videos Eugenia.
    But I am asking for help if you read this.
    As you can see I can handle the camera and editing,
    but I am lost with this compression stuff.
    I am using adobe pro. If you know the program
    please tell me what setting to use to convert for upload
    and I mean really woord by word>(too old to understand) should I use WMF, DIVIX. hope you can help. Or anyone moana@rogers.com thanx.
    Talking about HD
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 10 months ago
    Unfortunately I don't use Adobe's solutions, I use Vegas. I would recommend you export in h.264 .mp4 at 5mbps, at aspect ratio 1.000 and resolution 1280x720 with audio as AAC at 128kbps. You also need to de-interlace so there are no jaggies. That's the best setup for Vimeo in HD. I know that Adobe's tools support all these things but I can't pinpoint you where to find each option...
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  • Chromazone 10 months ago
    Eugenia...an impressive video with nice music. I've also got a new RZ800, but I'm getting a significant hum over the built in mic. Are you experiencing any unwanted (motor?) noise over your Canon mic?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 10 months ago
    Yes, it's a known issue. If you want to record audio, get an external mic, the ZR800 has a mic input. Otherwise, discard the audio.
  • Chromazone 10 months ago
    Thank you for the straight talk...more than I can say for Canon Support. I'm guessing that you like the ZR800 so much you're willing to live with an "issue."
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 10 months ago
    Actually, I have an HD camera, the ZR800 is a toy for me, but I never record audio anyway. :D

    I mostly use my cameras for artistic videos, not for family gatherings. I think the only thing you can do is either yank the audio, or get an external mic. Depending on the kind of shooting you do, I would favor the second option.
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  • Mark Jensen 10 months ago
    wow, great quality for that price. and great shots.
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  • Scott Hampton 10 months ago
    Eugenia,
    Thanks for providing footage. It was helpful in determining which miniDV cam to get.

    How well does it hold up under low-light situations, especially if you upload to the dreaded YouTube? And can the saturation be cranked DOWN any?

    Thanks,
    Scott
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  • Scott Hampton 10 months ago
    OK.
    I read your review and saw that you mentioned to record in Neutral color mode. Sorry, I fired too quick!

    Do you have any footage in Neutral color mode?

    Thx,
    Scott
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 10 months ago
    The specific footage was shot in neutral color mode and was color graded on post. As for low light situations, get a grey card, it works wonders. :)
  • Scott Hampton 9 months ago
    Aah, I see. Thanks. I use grey cards and the like to set custom white balance on my DSLR, a Canon EOS 20D. It does, indeed, work wonders. I'll try it for video, too!
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  • Shawn Patrick Higgins 9 months ago
    hmmm. so i know this must sound like a terribly dumb question to the informed, but if its encoded at 5mbps,
    isnt that bits per second, and then at 100+ seconds wouldnt the file theoretically be 500+ mbs, not 40?
    oh man. compression confuses me so.
    nice videos !
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 9 months ago
    This particular video is DV, not HD, so I encoded it in 3 mbps, not 5. :)
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  • Ethan Lofton 9 months ago
    Wow, beautiful videography. I just ordered this camera and am looking forward to experimenting! I enjoyed the composition and production value of this video.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 9 months ago
    Thanks Ethan, message me if you have any questions.
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  • PAUL MARTINO 9 months ago
    Very nice but as always im confused, this video appears as hd but as far as i can tell the cam is not a hd camera, can you explain this.
    ps: lower case just for you
    thx
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 9 months ago
    Vimeo will re-encode using higher quality bitrate and size any clip that its size is over 848x480 (DVD resolution). I have written here a tutorial how to do this, it will work for any PAL or NTSC miniDV widescreen camera: eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/01/11/from-minidv-to-vimeo-in-high-quality/
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  • CocteauBoy 8 months ago
    That SUPER site doesn't allow downloads for me for some reason, but my question is to ask what you are using for exporting. Is that relative to your editing software? I'm just using the default windows export/import and I really don't have much choice in sizes and resolution, so I don't know what it's exporting.

    Your video looks a LOT better than mine!
    zr800: vimeo.com/640563
    versus my old sony cybershot
    vimeo.com/599557

    I know this must record better than what I'm seeing.

    Thanks!

    troy
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 8 months ago
    The SUPER site does allow downloads, you just need to look around and follow the pages, they do that on purpose. But the download file IS there. Please email me directly if you have more questions, no need to reply on this here, as it's off topic to my video.
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  • CocteauBoy 8 months ago
    Well, ON topic is that your video is beautiful! Thanks for sharing it!
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  • godino 7 months ago
    Amazing!
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  • powerlord 5 months ago
    hi. nice vid. Im a vegas user too (SD and HD)

    can you talk us through the colour grading you did in Vegas ? simple colour correction or more complex secondary colour correction, etc ?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 5 months ago
    I have a tutorial on my blog.
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  • Jason Schillereff 3 months ago
    Hi Eugenia, I'm new and trying to use your method above with this movie vimeo.com/1370964 . This clip is from a full DVD I made just recopied to the computer cutting this section into a 3 gig plus avi file (pinnacle 12). Then I used the Super software with your instruction to the letter but it’s still uploading with lower quality than on my PC. It’s at 880X480 but it never got the HD treatment. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru 3 months ago
    This is because Vimeo disabled encoding of videos that are not 1280x720 to be as HD. They did that in March.
  • Jason Schillereff 3 months ago
    Thanks Eugenia I know I read that somewhere but thought this was the fix to that. I'll try again in Super and just re-size it and see if it comes out ok.
    Thanks again for all your insight and help.
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  • andymelton 2 months ago
    The video is gorgeous. I wasn't expecting quality like that from the ZR800. Thank you for pointing out that it has mic input. I might look into the ZR800 instead of the ZR850. It will definitely be an upgrade from my Sony Cybershot point & shoot videos. Again, amazing video. Love the views and artistic shots.
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