Please, I cannot guess what video format I get. I want to have MP4. Can the HG20 help in that?
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The raw footage is in .mts, I use Handbrake (free software) to convert the files into the type that I want. Not a big hassle, I am guessing that the raw files are in a .mts format as it is uncompressed.
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Beware the Sony "cineframe" options -- they look terrible. I have a Sony HC3 and while it's a fine little camera in 1080i 60i mode, the pseudo-24p stuff looks awful.The HV20 promises TRUE 24fps recording, plus a cinematic gamma curve, plus OIS, plus manual audio level controls, plus better lowlight performance. I wasn't even planning on buying a new camera, but I'm buying an HV20. At $1099, it's a great deal!
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Update: With the newest firmware the BDP 80 plays MKV just fine! Now my only wish is for H 264 playback. THEN it would truly be universal. (although limited to Fat 32 making large NTFS USB drives pretty useless for now)
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It requires very precise formatting. Mine all came up as "not supported" until I downloaded the file converter free plug in and followed their tutorial http://content.miccastore.com/sites/default/files/Micca%20Standard%20Video%20Recode%20Tutorial.pdf Once you do that (and it is easy) the video should play on the device
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The MP4 compression you guys are talking about scares me, but the truth of the matter is I'm going to be out filming night-long firework shoots and half-hour interviews, not to mention I can't afford an 8GB SDHC card right now. Once I get some corporate money for my podcasts (yeah right!) then I'll start looking at HDV and crap, but right now I need to toss in my vote for the HD2 simply because I can shoot more video. It's a stupid reason, but that's it.
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Hi there, almost all kind of videos I've been played on it, mp4, avi, mpg, mkv, flv with no problem. I've used dlna to share the videos from mac and pc. I hope this will help.
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Cant really say,but convert all your videos to MPEG format it's big but it will play.
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Could you tell me where you went to change the setting on the video to high quality? I couldn't find it on my H5.Thank you,Esther
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I do not know. I returned it after I found out it does not play MP4 files without time consuming conversion.
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I order for one of my friend..he toldthat this device will not support MP4 file We should not rename the file from MP4 to AVI. We should convert the file from MP4 to AVI..Many converters are available online.
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We use AVI format, our MP4 movies would not play. We love ours and use them on long road trips!
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I am not tech savvy but it shows that it uses mp 3 format. Hope this helps Kevin
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Sorry to say that I'm unfamiliar to webcams and what type of file format they save on. However, I did a bit of research on the HD Pro Webcam C920 and found that it likes to make the recorded file into an H.264 format. It's basically compresses the video so that it takes less space than that of a MPEG-2 format. I would assume that it is compatible with Vegas Pro 12 since it's new. I'm surprised that there isn't that much info on this particular thing. All I can find is how to render (save) edited videos in H.264 format. The best one I can find is this link to Yahoo Answers, but it talks about an older version of Vegas Pro: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090909053518AAcMwS8 Hope this helps!
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MP4 video format, I had to use handbrake. I ended up returning this product, I was not happy with the app that runs it. I upgrade to the Areo Patriot, much better product.
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Video is 720x480. Not quite 720p which is 1280x720. Here's the output of MediaInfo on one of my video files. Format : JPEG Codec ID : MJPG Width : 720 pixels Height : 480 pixels Display aspect ratio : 3:2 Frame rate : 30.000 fps Standard : NTSC Color space : YUV Compression mode : Lossy
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the video is .MP4 so I am guessing that the audio would either be MP3 or AAC. I don't know how to check. I have never had trouble playing .MP4 with anything, it is the most commonly used format.
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Thank you J. I'm sure the HV20 should work since it's DV Tape based and the video capture is made in real time.My concern is that since the HG10 works with a Hard Drive, the files copied to the computer may be in a format that the Mac cannot read... That would be a bummer.I've heard about some Sony AVCHD cameras not being compatible with the Mac and this is why I wonder about this one.I guess ultimately I can just get it and try it and return it if it doesn't work.Thanks again,Christian