Below are two links to a movie from when my son and I went diving for four days in early March. We did ten dives in all, including two night dives. I condensed all the clips into two day dives and one night dive for this movie. There is one clip of a Nurse Shark from a previous trip; my old camera did not have HD capability so the video quality was poor, and this was the only clip worth saving so I incorporated it into this movie. The movie is split into two segments because of YouTube size constraints, each being about ten minutes long. This was my first real attempt at u/w videography, and I have a few questions. I'm just a picture-taker, sharing the results with mostly non-divers, but I want to get the most from my Canon SD960IS and a DIY video light. I used CyberLink's PowerProducer 8 to edit the movie.
Part 1 YouTube - DIVING COZUMEL, MARCH 2010, PART 1 in HD
Part 2 YouTube - DIVING COZUMEL, MARCH 2010, PART 2 in HD
One thing I did with all the clips was use the Stablizer feature within PowerProducer to minimize the "shake". It did a pretty good job controlling the motion, but there were some trade-offs. First, it crops the video to a slightly smaller size and then moves the cropped area around the available window as it adjusts to the motion of the shake. Some of the clips cropped out more than I would have liked, but I didn't think it would be enough to lower the resolution so much it would be noticable. But something made the end result fuzzier than the original. I uploaded an unedited clip of an Eagle Ray to YouTube here YouTube - Eagle Ray for comparison. That clip appears at the beginning of Part 2 of my movie. YouTube's HD isn't as good as the camera's 1280X720, but even so, there's a noticable difference. Do any of you have expirence with other editing software that has a Stablizer such as PowerProducer? Does the same thing happen with any software that controlls shake, or is there some that do it better? I was really disappointed with the loss of clarity, especially when viewed on our 24" monitor.
Another question is with the YouTube movie. There are many momentary freezes that cause the movie to skip or jump. When I view the movie from my hard drive or from the DVD I burned, it doesn't do that; the motion is smooth. Now that I'm paying attention, I see some other YouTube u/w videos are a little jumpy as well. Is that a YouTube problem, or is it the software rendering to YouTube? I don't know how to upload the burned movie from the disc because it isn't in one file; PowerProducer split it into segments and put them all in a folder with the menu, and the menu sequences them automatically. It's not a big deal, just sorta tics me off after waiting hours for it to upload to have it skip around like that. It might be the way PowerProducer renders for YouTube, but I don't know enough about it to figure it out.
Like I said, this is my first attempt. Maybe I'm expecting too much?
Part 1 YouTube - DIVING COZUMEL, MARCH 2010, PART 1 in HD
Part 2 YouTube - DIVING COZUMEL, MARCH 2010, PART 2 in HD
One thing I did with all the clips was use the Stablizer feature within PowerProducer to minimize the "shake". It did a pretty good job controlling the motion, but there were some trade-offs. First, it crops the video to a slightly smaller size and then moves the cropped area around the available window as it adjusts to the motion of the shake. Some of the clips cropped out more than I would have liked, but I didn't think it would be enough to lower the resolution so much it would be noticable. But something made the end result fuzzier than the original. I uploaded an unedited clip of an Eagle Ray to YouTube here YouTube - Eagle Ray for comparison. That clip appears at the beginning of Part 2 of my movie. YouTube's HD isn't as good as the camera's 1280X720, but even so, there's a noticable difference. Do any of you have expirence with other editing software that has a Stablizer such as PowerProducer? Does the same thing happen with any software that controlls shake, or is there some that do it better? I was really disappointed with the loss of clarity, especially when viewed on our 24" monitor.
Another question is with the YouTube movie. There are many momentary freezes that cause the movie to skip or jump. When I view the movie from my hard drive or from the DVD I burned, it doesn't do that; the motion is smooth. Now that I'm paying attention, I see some other YouTube u/w videos are a little jumpy as well. Is that a YouTube problem, or is it the software rendering to YouTube? I don't know how to upload the burned movie from the disc because it isn't in one file; PowerProducer split it into segments and put them all in a folder with the menu, and the menu sequences them automatically. It's not a big deal, just sorta tics me off after waiting hours for it to upload to have it skip around like that. It might be the way PowerProducer renders for YouTube, but I don't know enough about it to figure it out.
Like I said, this is my first attempt. Maybe I'm expecting too much?
