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Final score 0 Aquinas High School to 6 Ontario Christian.

Aquinas High School vs Western Christian Feb 4, 2010

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I have a Panasonic HD video camera, which records video in AVCHD m2ts video files.  I have been looking for software that will allow me to edit the video, save it in the raw format without quality degradation.  As of today, I found a solution that looks promising.  I have installed UBUNTU (Linux) on my laptop, and then installed Kdenlive.  I was able to add a clip to the timeline, cropped it and then rendered it to a mt2s file.

I have found other solutions with windows, but I didn’t want to shell out the big bucks just to edit some of my home videos.  Programs that I have found were Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Pinicale.  Windows 7 has a built in video player for AVCHD and with Windows live movie maker (downloaded free from Microsoft), it was able to edit video.

With Youtube becoming a big hit with video, we have seen support for AVCHD video.  Just upload your raw video to Youtube for everyone to enjoy.  This is great if you don’t mind the limitation of 10 minutes worth of video.

One of the many things that I have noticed with shooting video in HD, is that the files are saved every time you pause recording.  When you start again, it creates a new file.  I have found myself looking for a program just to join several clips together into one larger clip.  I have one that works and plays back well with windows 7, but when I upload the larger clip to youtube, I find that my 5 minute clip turned into 10 minutes.  Playback is now in slow motion off of Youtube.  I am sure this is a rendering problem with youtube, but none the less, this created a new problem, and made the solution un-usable.

• Ubuntu
• Kdenlive
• VLC

Note that Cinelerra 4.1, Kdenlive and OpenShot all natively edit AVCHD on Linux.

Have a new Droid Phone?  I have purchased my Droid at Walmart and found it to be a great deal.  $188 out the door without having to deal with mail in rebates like you would at the Verizon Store.

One of the many great apps that I have used so far is QIK.COM. [qik user="dkwizard1"]

With this app, I was able to stream video of my sons soccer and cross country events live to the internet.  Being new to the app, I didn’t realize that the default setting was set to private instead of public.  Once I changed it, everyone was able to watch the events live.  I liked the chat interaction from the people watching from the live stream.  I did notice, as time went on, the lag was almost up to 4 minutes.  I am guessing this is due to data congestion on the network.  However, once I stopped the stream and restarted, all was ok again.  I also noticed that It recorded the event on the website instead of my phone.  That is a great space saving feature.  At this point, I am not sure how long or how many videos I can save on the website.  The best part about this app, is that it is free.  One of the cons about the app is that there isn’t a zoom feature.  One of the comments was that the viewers needed binoculars to watch the event live.

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HandBrake settings for the Motorola DROID Phone:

848×480 resolution, H.264 codec, 1500kbps avg bitrate, AAC 48KHz 160Kbps

• iPod legacy
• 848 (w) blank (h) (anamorphic set to “none”),
• .video bitrate 1500
• AAC Stereo 48kHz @ 160 Kbps.
• AnyDVD is used to break the encryption.

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PAHS Football Game Part 1

PAHS Football Game Part 2

Pottsville Area High School JV Football Game.

I filmed this game using my Panasonic HDC-SD1 Camera.  I used a program called TSMUXR to join the video clips from the camera.  Since youtube has a limitation of 2gb and 10 mins long, I had to split the video into two parts.  For some strange reason, YOUTUBE  is doubling the length of the videos.  I hope this one works.

Vacation in BWI : Video

Footage was taken with a Panasonic HDC SD1 video camera.  Using windows 7, and live movie maker, I was able to publish this video onto youtube.  It first saved it as a WMI video, and then it uploaded it to youtube.  This seems to be the fastest way for me to publish video in HD to youtube.  I have another option, and that is to upload the file directly to youtube, which may provide a better video resolution.

I highly recommend downloading the HULU desktop application if you hook up your computer to the TV.  It is remote control friendly, so you don’t need to hook up a keyboard to watch videos.  Also note that there is an application for google and youtube videos.

HULU Player

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