TONY CHANEY
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I have not had any trouble with fogging.
INTOVA HD Sport 2 TIPS
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scubajunky17
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Excellent.
Is the 1080 setting only to be viewed on a HD TV ?
Is the 1080 setting only to be viewed on a HD TV ?
The 1080p could be viewed on an HDTV, or a computer (I would venture this is more common these days)...if you are asking if a standard def TV would work - If you plan on using this with a standard def TV, the process would be as following:
Using a computer, apple/mac it doesn't matter use video editing software to publish video to DVD (save it as a DVD)
When you save it, choose a standard def option (640x480) - it will likely make you do it in letter box format.
The letter box will happen because you took a rectangular image (1080p) and published it to square TV output.
I would say most people publish their videos to sites like youtube and other people view them on phones/tablets/computers more than anything else these days. Heck more and more people's TV sets are basically simplistic living room computers anyway (seen what a blue ray player can do these days?).
I know they have the integrated software red filter - use the external one you bought - that's my .02.
As to the head mounts, I think you will find you move your head more than you think you do. I use mine on a tray, and am happy with that. There are lots of options out there...heck just starting off you may just want to use a coil lanyard and clip it to your BC and hold it to shoot. Whatever you do, make sure you secure it - people lose small cameras regularly...sometimes it's many minutes before they realize it's gone.
Or maybe you really do want that whole 'point of view' shooting. I don't care for it, but people certainly do it a lot. If you are showing the video to others you will find your self saying this is the part where I became a bobble head for the next 15 minutes.
I would look into a 32gb card for memory - unless you are sure you want to download video nightly. I want to say 32gb would hold 5.5 hours on mine. Downloading video nightly isn't hard, but I work on computers all the time and rarely want to open one on vacation. That's something I'll do back home in the real world.
Using a computer, apple/mac it doesn't matter use video editing software to publish video to DVD (save it as a DVD)
When you save it, choose a standard def option (640x480) - it will likely make you do it in letter box format.
The letter box will happen because you took a rectangular image (1080p) and published it to square TV output.
I would say most people publish their videos to sites like youtube and other people view them on phones/tablets/computers more than anything else these days. Heck more and more people's TV sets are basically simplistic living room computers anyway (seen what a blue ray player can do these days?).
I know they have the integrated software red filter - use the external one you bought - that's my .02.
As to the head mounts, I think you will find you move your head more than you think you do. I use mine on a tray, and am happy with that. There are lots of options out there...heck just starting off you may just want to use a coil lanyard and clip it to your BC and hold it to shoot. Whatever you do, make sure you secure it - people lose small cameras regularly...sometimes it's many minutes before they realize it's gone.
Or maybe you really do want that whole 'point of view' shooting. I don't care for it, but people certainly do it a lot. If you are showing the video to others you will find your self saying this is the part where I became a bobble head for the next 15 minutes.
I would look into a 32gb card for memory - unless you are sure you want to download video nightly. I want to say 32gb would hold 5.5 hours on mine. Downloading video nightly isn't hard, but I work on computers all the time and rarely want to open one on vacation. That's something I'll do back home in the real world.
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scubajunky17
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Thanks so much for taking the time to write all that. So do you shoot at 1080p or 720p ?
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scubajunky17
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Thanks
TONY CHANEY
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I have shot in both 720 and 1080. I usually leave the camera on the entire dive, edit and remove what I don't like and also I take stills from the video. So with 720, I find that it is faster to download and edit but the quality is less than the 1080. If you want to see the difference take a still in each mode and enlarge it.
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scubajunky17
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Is there a huge difference ? is the difference dependent on what TV you watch it on ?
TONY CHANEY
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Well if a TV cannot support 1080 then yes. But I can seen the difference on the computer when blowing up the pictures.
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scubajunky17
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Right guys I tried the vivid setting and it is not as good as the standard, unlucky for me my best clips were shot vivid, is there any way I can edit the video back to standard ?thanks
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