Archive for April 17th, 2009
S-video to laptop problem fixed
by DavidS on Apr.17, 2009, under Equipment Testing
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Since I started working on streaming video, I’ve been wanting to stream with my old Sony trv128 camcorder at night. Not having an s-video or a composite plugin on my laptop prevented that until now. The solution was a EasyCap USB video capture adapter. I was skeptical of it from the reviews but still chose it over the higher priced adapters listed. 3 days after ordering it I had it hooked up and working in a couple of minutes. There was no problem hooking it up with Vista and it works perfectly with the Adobe Flash media Encoder . Save some bucks and go cheap with this adapter.
My next equipment addiction
by DavidS on Apr.17, 2009, under This-N-That
Soon I’ll be taking the next leap into the HD evolution with a new camcorder.
The Canon Vixia HF S100 has drawn me into making the jump of a better quality video.. I had been looking at the Vixia HG21 but the S100 has a larger sensor of 1/2.6 and approx 8.59 megapixels on top of 24mbps recording. Noise in low-light will still be an issue but not worth giving up on HD completly. Some good test video can be found on youtube of this camera but my favorite site for examples is at Digital Chumps like this one for low-light