http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: HDR-UX1 - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:22:31 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/if-you-are-considering-buying-a-camera-that-shoots-avchd-you-need-to-see-this#post-37444 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:47:50 +0000 whoismatt 37444@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Note:  You can either read what I typed here or just see this handy video that I uploaded to Youtube that explains in detail what I have done.</p> <p>Video:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clQWfa4fUwo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clQWfa4fUwo</a></p> <p>When I was searching for an HD video camera to purchase, I did some very thorough research.  The one difficulty that I had when doing this research though, was the need to know what video quality an AVCHD video camera would produce.  After scouring the internet I ended up with no videos that showed what the camera had to offer in terms of video quality.  I eventually ended up taking a leap of faith and purchased the HDR-UX1 from Sony's AVCHD lineup of cameras.  It ended up being a very solid camera.</p> <p>In my desire to fix the difficulties that I faced when buying an HD video camera, I have created several (18 to be precise) test videos with my new<br /> camera.  Each of these will showcase the various quality settings of the camera.</p> <p>The Sony HDR-UX1 came with four quality settings:</p> <p>-HDHQ+: 12 Megabits-per-second recording quality.<br /> -HDHQ: 9 Megabits-per-second recording quality.<br /> -HDSP: 7 Megabits-per-second recording quality.<br /> -HDLP: 5 Megabits-per-second recording quality.</p> <p>The camera records at a native 1080p 1440x1080i but with Sony Vegas it can be re-rendered to any quality that you prefer.</p> <p>I recorded 8 clips outside my house, each of varying quality from the HDHQ+ to HDLP and rendered them in both AVI and WMV for quality and size purposes. There are also two clips that I resized to 720p and uploaded to Vimeo for HD streaming.<br /> Overall the shooting for the clips only took 30 minutes, but the editing itself took hours because it required constant rendering of each video.  Its<br /> finally finished though, I hope you like it!</p> <p> You can find all 18 of the various video clips taken with my HDR-UX1 at: <a href="http://whoismatt.com/index.php/Videos/The-Sony-AVCHD-Quality-Test.html" rel="nofollow">http://whoismatt.com/index.php/Videos/The-Sony-AVCHD-Quality-Test.html</a></p>