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| Unofficial VirtualDub Support Forums > General Discussion > Easiest Cameras To Use With Vdub? |
| Posted by: jpk1789 Feb 13 2012, 09:07 PM |
| VDub is breathtakingly easy if you have the right camera. I have five-year-old Fuji Finepix Z5 (pocket-sized), which records video in M-JPEG (Motion JPEG) in 640 x 480 resolution, 30 frames per second. That format is SO easy to use with VDub. No converting, rendering, or other nonesense. I just cut out the bits of video I don't want and then save it while in Direct Stream mode. It takes only seconds, the quality is lossless, and the memory does not balloon up at all. My question is, can any of you recommend any new models of pocket cameras (High Def, higher than 640 x 480) that are super easy to use with VDub? No rendering, no converting--just immediately ready for Direct Stream processing? Sadly all the HD cameras these days come with AVCHD, which makes both me and my PC vomit. Recapping my goal: Pocket sized camera, Hi-Def, immediately ready for Direct Stream editing in VDub without any converting, etc. |
| Posted by: asaleo Mar 17 2012, 04:39 PM |
| Cameras which produces .avi files is nowadays unknown for me. I use cameras which produces .mov and .mp4 files. With suitable plugin you can open them in VirtualDub and work on them. No direct stream copy of course but if you make any changes to the file you still have to render the files when saving. Regards |
| Posted by: ale5000 Mar 17 2012, 07:03 PM | ||
Not true, you can also direct stream copy with this: http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/Plugins/QuickTime/ |
| Posted by: Hectic Apr 17 2012, 12:27 PM |
| MJPEG is awesome. Especially for capturing, editing and recompressing within virtual dub. |
| Posted by: evropej Apr 18 2012, 06:42 PM |
| If you go HD and go with MJPEG or similar, you are going to need some huge memory cards and big hard drives to store the video. Editing mov files is a breeze. Use input filter to import the video file and then recompress to xvid or use external encoders to do all the dirty work for you. My canon t2i can store 20 minutes in HD with h264 compression on a 8GB SDHC. I would hate to see what the length would be in an MJPEG lol. |
| Posted by: rjisinspired Apr 20 2012, 01:36 AM |
| I have a few Jazz cameras but those are the cheapie cams you get at Biglots. Those are the only cams I know from the top of my head that make MJPEGS, nowadays. My Canon A70 did MJPEG. Maybe some still cams still use that format? I believe the first generation, standard definition, Flip cameras used a variant of Xvid in AVI container. After that it was MP4. I have the UltraHD. Wish I had the regular Flip since it would be easier to use and less taxing on my system. Too bad they don't make Flips anymore. I like them better than the pocket Kodaks. |