Thanks.
No, I have a TRV 950. The shot was done with a PC 100.
With talent like that, who needs editing.
I'll tell tomorrow, when she wakes up. I told her I'd sent the film to America and she said "Don't we have it any more?"

Tor

that was cool how you did the captions cause i didnt understand a bit of what she was saying. i have a crappy dv camera now but im saving up for the vx1000 not the 2000 cause the 2000 vinettes. do you know anything about the 1000? and how did you do the captions?

heres a short movie with some easy editing i did: www.mkskating.com/skatevideopreview.mpg 10mb

It's hard to tell from streaming media but the color looked tremendous and I've read user reviews on the 950 that they loved the color saturation. It's newer than the 2000 so it may actually be better. The only downside I've heard is that the 950's not as good in dim light. (But it has to be way better than my TRV50!).

(Edited) Now I just noticed you shot with a PC100. Not familiar with that one.

Tor

Nice piece - what a cutie ..

Technical question. If I first download your video I can play it in the "full" Media Player, and enable Play > Captions.

However. if I just click to stream it (Using IE 6 in XP), the Media Panel to the left opens, and the clip plays in a "small version" Media Player at the bottom, and this player does not appear to have any option to enable Captions to be seen. Any solution?

thanks

Peter

Don't know much about Media Player. Even less about Internet Explorer. Neither have I found a way to set the font or style of the captions in MP.
The closed caption thing (works only in wmv) is well described in the Vegas 4 manual under "Using advanced video features".
Basically you place your cursor on the timeline and hit C. You get a menu where you chose to insert TEXT. In the field next to "Parameter" you write your caption. The position (further down) is that of your cursor. You can change or fine-tune it in this dialogue. Hit OK and you're done. You'll have to repeat it for every single caption. though. This can also be done with a script, but I haven't looked into that yet.
Cool, ain't it?
Tor

Yes - it's a great feature - and you can send viewers to URL at the finish of the clip, or elsewhere.

dse showed us this at VASST, making some strange sub-captioned observations about fish ;)

The Sony PC 100 that I used to borrow before I got the TRV 950 for Christmas is a very good camera. Strictly amateur, and ridiculously small, it shoots very well indeed, under good light and sound conditions. It has a Carl Zeiss lens.

This shot was taken in our kitchen around lunch-time, daylight in from large windows about 1 metre to the girl's right. No tweaking was done to the footage, neither image nor sound. All in all, it's a combination of a great talent (my girl), lucky setup, a decent camera on tripod and that marvellously mystical Nordic light.

I'm very happy with the TRV 950. Have some footage I haven't captured yet. Quick look-throughs seem very promising. For me, it's perfect to have a 3 CCD camera that looks inexpensive and nonprofessional. I once borrowed a PD 150 to record a semi-official function (my father-in-law recived the king's medal of honour for having been a Sunday school teacher for 50 years - beat that!) and people just froze around me, even experienced public figures. With the TRV 950 they would have been much more at ease. And technically I think the video would have been just as good.
That ought to be a good tip for all you wedding videographers out there, and a few others. too: Take a small camera along to do the crowd, you'll get more natural behaviour that way.
Tor

I still use my faithful Panasonic EZ1 a lot - and the same thing - its picture quality to size of camera ratio is huge. I shoot a lot in private homes with available light, and with a small camera it's easy to fade into the background and get nice natural footage.

The light and colour qualities in your shot are very nice.

Huff, det hørtes skummelt ut, men "litt spøkelser" er vel overkommelig...

Ja, det er bedre enn monstre.
Tor

Hehe, lærte i hvert fall noe da. Var ikke klar over dette med "Closed Captioning"... artig.

shjomama,
I looked at your skating video. Amazing stunts those people do. Was that the "crappy" camera? Didn't look so bad. The editing was good - to the point, and showing us what was there. That is basically what editing should do.
If you wanted to add a bit of story you could have built it around that guy who falls. Show the fall 2 or 3 times, throughout the whole piece. And let him succeed at last. Now, if you were making a mock commercial you could let him grease that board with Dr. Volvare's Interactive Lubricant and THEN succeed.
Anyway, he really hit his head there, didn't he?
Tor

<< Isn't it wonderful that someday she will be able to share the memories you are preserving with her own children! >>

That is the reason for spending time and money on family videos. And like anything worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Tor

About small cameras: yah, the PD150 is kind of imposing. I recently helped a videographer shoot an occasion at a church. I was on the VX2000. He was on the PD150. Partly because it's black it looks more imposing than the VX2000. Good for the ego, but, as you say, the 950 might work better in certain occasions. If I could be in the market right now, I'd still think about a PD150 or the new Panasonic 24p simply because I've heard the bigger lenses make for better low-light. But, of course, if I was going to spend that much money I'd do a lot of researching first. Maybe the 950 would satisfy my needs completely.

Tors,

She's so cute, and obviously intelligent. She's like 3 years old and already speaks fluent Norwegian.

G

Four and a half at the time. Five now.
Tor

"Already speaks fluent Norwegian . . "

Oh, I thought she was more than intelligent. I thought she was a genius speaking English backwards! :)

"Huff, det hørtes skummelt ut, men "litt spøkelser" er vel overkommelig.."

Ja det skulle nok gaa greit det ja, jeg tror ikke det er saa veldig farlig nei. Hehe

(Yes it should be ok, i dont think it would be too dangerous.)

Frankie
Singapore

Im Norwegian its just that i moved to Singapore, to be with my wife (Singaporean)