Video capture has always eluded me as a hobby. In the early days of VHS, there was virtually no editing abilities, and you got a raw product that rarely looked as good as envisioned. I chose to pass on video.
Several years ago I wanted to support my wife in her career and we purchased a camera that filmed in HD. My wife insisted that the camera record to DV media (rather than the up and coming hard drives). The difficulty of transferring DV to the Computer raised issues. Shannon also decided that HD wasn't necessary at volleyball practice. At the same time her assistant purchased a camera with a hard drive and the camera to computer transfer was so efficient they discarded using the HD camera altogether. (Wasted Purchase)
With the advent of digital media and consumer programs powerful enough to do video editing, an amateur could produce higher quality video, but needed patience. (uploading video, encoding video, and then editing it in software either too basic to achieve good results, or to complex to quickly complete basic tasks). At the end of the day, I had given up on video.
However, after reading through the specs, and thinking of some different ways to capture video, I have been inspired to use the camera. I'll start with some basic video capture using the GoPro. Don't expect stunning video's of me skiing down double black diamonds. I hope then to progress to some minor video editing, then to some advanced video editing using my aforementioned DV dinosaur, the new GoPro, and still shots from the Camera.
Stay tuned for the experimentation.
