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Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris
Next year I'm going to invest in one of these babies , I hear Joe Ross recorded LA with one of these and I'm very interested in hearing how it went, it looks like a really easy way to record right to h.264. |
It was really easy to record right to H.264. I was somewhat disappointed by the video quality, it seems pixelated, but that may be related to the feed and not the device. It's still better then most of the recordings.
There is a 4 gig file limitation, but the device will automatically stop and start again if it reaches that limit (although it might lose 30 seconds while doing that). I chose to stop it and start it again when I had free time (around once an hour).
On Saturday, the AV people started tearing things down before I stopped it, and it lost power. The entire file it was recording was lost (so I don't have the awards ceremony).
A big disadvantage is there is no easy way to monitor the feed. To check it, I had to stop recording, unplug the hard drive, plug the drive into my laptop, watch the video, and then plug it in again and start. I couldn't do this while they were running matches because there wasn't enough downtime. It can also record to USB flash drives, so I might next year use 2 flash drives that I can swap. They should be cheap enough to get 2 eight or sixteen gig drives by this time next year.
The best video setting is interlaced, which isn't ideal for what we want. I recorded on the middle setting on Saturday and couldn't tell the difference between the two (once the interlaced one was deinterlaced).
Hope that helps