Sayno VPC HD2000 breif review and editing question

[Tom De]

I've had my HD2000 now for 2 months. Lots of kids Christmas events, and my older son is doing school projects with it.


I find the pistol grip to be a very nice change over the usual grip. I guess there is a reason why handguns, and rifles are designed the way they are.

The second best, maybe sometimes best feature; It's low light capabilities. Not just good, borderline amazing. I found it best not to shoot full HD at low light levels, it struggles to much in that case. But the "default" vid setting works well.

I am weary that it doesn't seem you can do firmware updates though. Not that it needs one, but it would make me feel like I could keep longer, somehow.

My biggest gripe; editing full HD files. No PC at my house can do it. And my $3k PC at work can't handle them well either. I suspect its a software thing more than hardware.


I didn't like paying $550+ plus for it (I'm cheap), but I'm glad I did.


So far, it's great. Now if I can only make sure my kids don't destroy it, And I can figure out how to edit these big (1.5GB, 2GB) files.

What I've done so far to edit files:

Video playback on a PC is choppy at Full HD, on any of the PC's I've tried.

First; I run pinnacle on a laptop that has 4GB's of RAM, 2 core AMD @ 1.8GHz ( I think ). Pinnacle becomes un-responsive, after loading a 1.2GB file. Quicktime 7 pro, tries hard, but playback is choppy at best.

Second Machine ( about 1 year old ); HP xw4600 Workstation, Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9300@2.50Ghz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia FX4600 768MB ram. Playback choppy with; VLC, mplayer, totem. File un-editable with LiVES, and Cinelerra. File loads but any movement within the applications either crashes it, or locks it up.

I have compiled LiVES from scratch to no avail.

I think my question is "How do you edit MPEG4, Full HD large files"? I believe it's a software thing. In the past, I've been able to handle large (500mb-800mb) DV files on a 5 year old laptop using Avidmux. I know I can reduce the file resolution, and/or export it to a different file type ( and size ), but is there another way? Another application?


Thanks,

Tom de

[Soopafresh]

Pretty common complaint. h264 (which is inside the MP4 file) is CPU intensive and difficult to edit .

Best to convert it to a lossless intermediate codec for editing. Note: This will create some huge AVI files, but they're only meant for editing. They're too huge to play in mediaplayer of VLC. Once you're done editing, render your footage back to h264 MP4 and delete the Huffyuv AVIs

Install Huffyuv codec http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv-2.1.1.zip (after you unzip, right click on the.INF file to install)

Download and unzip a recent Avidemux from http://avidemux.razorbyte.com.au/

[Tom De]

Wow... very nice.. thank you.

I hope to use this in the 2 days or so... I gotta lotta other work to do... I'll post back with my report

Thanks again,

Tom de