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What is the best video camera to make home movies with?

Types of resolution in different videos (news, movies and home videos)?

  • My question might be a bit hard to explain and understand: When you watch any type of videos be it movies, news or home videos, even if you pause it at a scene, you can still tell whether its news or movies, even though they are both 'clear'. If you have a look at BBC, SBS their news images tend to be sort of 'fuzzy' is the only way I can explain it compared to commercial news, especially live footage. But its still 'clear' at the same time. In ABC news and British dramas, their footage is really sharp and 'wide awake'. Then when you look at paused home videos, even on Full HD you can tell its a commerical home camera and not professional industry cameras. Why and what is this? I mean, is it the resolution of the camera, lighting, exposure, filter etc? Because I want to make a short film, but a HD1080p commercial home-use camera wouldn't look 'movie'-like. Remember I am tallking about the image when the video is paused, so its not about amateurs shake the camera, no tripods or content of video. For example a newspiece filmed at a cafe paused vs a cafe scene in a movie is distinguishable.

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    Movies cost millions of pounds and the finished product needs to look much better than the news so they use the best equipment and cameras which film in definition higher than 1080p. If you're using an amateur video camera then using a tripod will sharpen the image when paused. Also try zooming in in your videos, whilst this won't improve the quality it can make backgrounds blurred when focused on something in the foreground. This subtle effect makes videos look more 'movie like'.

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you could postprocess your hd with a resolution enhancer to see if it gives the image quality you like. they say that they use formerly "defense" algorithms to create hyperresolution video. wikipedia supports this idea when it describes microscan at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-resolution I noticed that when I uploaded some handyphone videos to youtube that the resolution actually got better when I processed them with realplayer converter first. Also you might try the test version of resolution improving software. https://www.google.com/search?q=video+resolution+enhancer+microscan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=oyc&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&source=hp&q=video+resolution+enhancer+youtube&pbx=1&oq=video+resolution+enhancer+youtube&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=21397l22838l1l23255l7l7l0l0l0l0l200l938l1.5.1l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=29b8bdd3a785b09e&biw=1280&bih=900 One version I saw may have said it uses algorithms to create 4 times higher resolution

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the main concern is the super high compression used in consumer HD, particularly when flash cards are used as the storage media. A movie consists of 24 photo frames that are projected each second, thus stopping at any frame results in a clear picture. Consumer HD video by contrast consists of 3 full frames each second and played back at 25 fps. The missing frames is what allows for the super compression found in H.264, the missing frames are reconstituted on playback by interpolation. If you pause on an non-interpolated frame, then it should look clear, but if you step frame by frame the virtual interpolated frames will get blurry and disconcerted if there is any movement. Besides the blur and jerk of interpolation, super high compression is difficult to edit properly as the group-of-frames structure of 8 is fixed so that there can only be 3 edit points per second, this is the main reason consumer cameras are never used for professional video. When i first started in television, VHS video was never ever used on news. Then when Murdock came to America, he struck a deal with JVC to use S-VHS for his Fox news. Now days you see lots of amateur video on news, from cellphones even. The professional produced news packages may get to the local station via highly compressed internet delivery. Professional produced HD uses MPEG2, that is the same as digital broadcast. While MPEG2 also uses a GOF architecture, the GOF are variable length so they adapt to action and allow for editing on any frame. Also most professional HD video uses datarates of 35-50 mbps where as consumer standard datarate is 6 mbps although some pro-sumer video cameras can up that to 12 or 24 mbps.

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