Originally Posted by
freighttraininguphill
Yeah, what is it with the trend towards non-user-replaceable batteries? I asked this
question on Contour's forums and they said it was to keep it waterproof and simple to operate.
it's cheaper to manufacture, less moving parts and such. and when the battery dies, there's a stronger market for new cameras.
Originally Posted by
freighttraininguphill
I also
asked Contour why they chose to eliminate the Fast WVGA 848x480 60fps setting from their current camera lineup. They said it wasn't being used and that "the market is HD driven rather than SD driven". So I guess anyone who doesn't have at least a 2.4 GHz dual-core processor in their computer is SOL, since you need at least that much power to edit HD video.
as a commuter who uses video for police evidence, i like 60fps for snapping sharp images of number plates, but i use 1280x720, 60fps... another mode that's missing from the new contour. why do they call it "Action HD - 1280 x 720 @ 30/25fps"??? 30fps will miss a lot action.
Originally Posted by
johnny99
What software do you folks use to edit your Contour HD videos? I'm looking for something simple to just clip pieces out of a long video and string them together. Any free PC software that can do this? Thanks.
i'm doing video on linux. pitivi for very simple cutting and splicing. mencoder and ffmpeg for speed, brightness, etc effects. there are other video editors for linux that probably do all of that, and more, in a single application, but this works for me.
"Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz" with 4gb RAM makes it reasonably smooth to work with HD.