A Place Called Providence

The nice people over at CanonBuzz have leant me a camera for a month. Why? Because I’m an arty blogger. So I get my hands on a Canon HG10 which I’ll blog about here. Mike Atherton got one too.
I Can Has HG10? at sizemore Connection? We both are Seesmic users. Also, like Mike, it took an age to get his off DHL. It took me a week to get mine into my hands - seems that DHL delivery drivers won’t ring doorbells, and management aren’t about to ask them to do it.

Anyway, now I have this hard drive high def camera so I have to find out how to make online movies with it. Firslty, I already have an HD camera - a 20Gb JVC. I’m not much of an online video guy, though I love the idea. It just seems that there is too much hassle getting stuff edited and up. I’m up for a simpler world though - let’s see how the Canon does.
The Canon has a 40Gb drive, which you can fill up all you like before you have to decide what to do with it. Once you do decide to do something with it, it becomes a bit different to a normal video camera - you can’t just take the film out and put it in a box. You have to connect the camera to your computer and suck the video off it and then store it. and as you can film 40Gb at a time, it can also fill up your hard drive fairly fast. I have a 500Gb drive from Maplins, so I won’t fill it ou overnight, but if I use this camera and my JVC regularly, I would end up with multiple hard drives, not really what I want to do. I guess I need to find some backup system like DVD.
Anyway, before I can worry too much about that, I need to work out how to get some footage off the camera itself. I use a Mac, a MacBook Pro to be precise. So, I’ve plugged the camera into the Mac by USB and, lo and behold, I can see the camera hard drive in the finder. Now I just need to work out what all those files are. More soon!