{"id":7,"date":"2005-07-03T22:18:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T03:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-bean.com\/sussman\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2005-07-03T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T03:19:00","slug":"video-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Video Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I succumbed to (1) my gadget addiciton and (2) the cultural rule that all imminent fathers must buy video cameras.  Bought a Panasonic PV-GS150, and it really is neat.  It has three CCDs, so the color quality is <i>way<\/i> better than other cameras in its price range.  We did a lot of comparisons in the store, and the difference is dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>So after filming two minutes of cats and wife shaking fist, I plugged the camera into the Mac&#8217;s firewire port and clicked the &#8216;import&#8217; button.  The video got slurped right into iMovie.  Now I just need to figure out how to edit the stuff.  Though in the long run, I guess I&#8217;ll be doing the editing on my XP music-studio box.  The machine actually belongs to me, is faster, and has way more disk space.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squeakyanimalstudio.com\">Mark<\/a> and Marg were kind enough to do an iChat videoconference with me as a test.  It worked really smoothly over 802.11b&#8230; though they claimed the audio cut out for them now and then.  I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s an indication that I need to a faster DSL upload speed, or if I ought to just go buy an 802.11g router.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-bean.com\/sussman\/blog\/images\/video.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I succumbed to (1) my gadget addiciton and (2) the cultural rule that all imminent fathers must buy video cameras. Bought a Panasonic PV-GS150, and it really is neat. It has three CCDs, so the color quality is way better than other cameras in its price range. We did a lot of comparisons in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}