Powerball Video

[Jaco Snyman]

I need some help!

I would like to know which camera and editing software make the best videoclips for a powerball submission.

Previously I used a digital camera to take my videos but the file is about 6Mb up to 24Mb in size! I also used a digital video camera but the quality is not good enough and the video looks like a slow motion picture (file size still about 8Mb)!

Any ideas or help will be appreciated!

Jaco Snyman

[Quasar]

There isnt a "best" as such. Really which ever software you like.
If this is just a one of, you can try the windows built in MovieMaker.
Or if you wish to do this with othe home videos and holidays etc, I presonally recommned Pinnacle Studio.

As for a camera, this really is going to be a personal choice. I dont have a video camera, but do a fair bit of editing for other people.

Hope this helps.

[The Force]

Hi Jaco,

I always use Windows Moviemaker as with that tool I get the smallest files with still an acceptable quality. Most of the times I select a 300kbit/s stream quality (roughly 3MB/minute) and sometimes I select a 500kbit/s quality (roughly 5MB/minute). The latter select if I want to have a higher quality.

I forgot the name of the video format I always select...stay tuned..I will post it here. Anyway, I always get a wmv file format of my videos.

Regards,

The Force

[Enda]

I would like to know which camera and editing software make the best videoclips for a powerball submission.

Hi Jaco,

We can read pretty much any format, though generally the videos we get are in wmv format, as Steven said made with Windows Moviemaker.

I'm becoming a big fan also of Flash 8 - its doing some pretty good work with videos although some of the resulting files can be quite large.

Regards

Enda
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