Please post links to this thread of footage taken with this camera so that others and myself can see the end product. This can help the decision easier to buy this camera. - To admin - please make this a sticky so others can see quickly. Dv60 footage will look the same.

Please indicate if you have used Cine-look or regular mode for the footage.

Here are a few short samples of AG-DVC30 video. Keep in mind that there is a lot of compression to make these short videos small enough to view on the web. I can tell you the AG-DVC30 is worth every penny and gives very professional results. Here are my videos. Just want to say "excuse" the profanity in the last 2 seconds of the "Bodyboard Skate Bike Video" other than that everything is clean.

New Jersey Reservation

Bodyboarding Skateboarding and Biking

AG-DVC30 16:9 Digital Squeeze

Keep in mind I'm not a professional just another AG-DVC30 user on the board. Hope this video helps you and everyone out.

I don't know if this helps, it's all skate footage,-
http://www.gameroom.com/minnird2/clips/slowsection.mov

Hey Minnird

Did you use any Steadycam?

OBM

Nice footage. Love skate videos.

Hi

Nice video, take care, watch your heads!!

By the way, how did you record the sound? Did you use the internal mic, an external mic or did you a special soundtrack in post? I mean the skating sounds, not the music. I know that the internal mic is week on the DVC30 but if you only used your internal mic in your video, I must investigate if there is something wrong with mine. Compared to mine your sound is exellent.

Regards,

/Bo

Hey nice vidos all of them!!

To 3CCD, How do you get the 16:9 digital squeze?? just setting the DVC30 to squeze mode?? I really like it how it looks!!

I mean there are 3 forms
4:3 , 16:9 and squeze, what did you use for that shoot?

Regards

Hey Sergio2002, thanks for the feed back. Yes, I went into the menu system and changed the aspect ratio from 4:3 to the camcorder's "Digital Squeeze." If you do this correctly you should see everything on the LCD slightly stretched vertically.

Hi

Here is another sample movie where the DVC30 (PAL) is used.
It's about frogs. A few hundred meters from where I live there is a small water pond where a LOT of frogs have a real party every spring, just as the ice is melting. I didn't add any music as the frogs are making there own sounds.

It's not as much action as in the previous scating movies, so I hope you won't be too disappointed!

I forgot my polarizer filter at home and it could have been used to minimize reflections in some scenes.

The film is about 2,5 minutes and the download size is about 38MB.

https://lagring.storegate.se/user/s...a9-50a5e2d0258e

/Bo

Did you use a fluid head on your nature stuff? Nice smooth pans! What shooting mode do you use?

Yeah I used a fluid head tripod. The Libec TC-6. It took me about 2 takes for most of the pan shots. Hey Bov3 that frog video was great. Some nice selective focus and very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

My friend goes to a film/art school and showed me one of his 16mm film projects. I was inspired and spent a few days or so trying to learn few new things to create 16mm film look from video shot with my DVC30. Here is a sample:

http://media.putfile.com/16mm-Look-13

Bov3 your video looks like real TV-documentary. Great job. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Hey 3CCD, your, look like, 16mm movie is awesome. You must be FCP user, right? How did you set up DVC30 or everything was done in FCP!?

Tell us your secret, please.

Is it squeeeze mode again?

Thanks

OBM

Thanks for the feed back. I've been working on it so much that you can't tell if it looks right or not. Right now I'm still tweaking and trying to generate more non-repetitive artifacts. Its just something to toy around when I get bored since I haven't been able to shoot any new video yet.

Yep I'm using Final Cut Pro 4.0. Everything is manually done. No plug-ins or anything thats just a "drop and go." I hope to make a little short video like a montage or something using that video effect.

Bov3,
Nice job there. May I ask - was that frame mode? If not, did you deinterlace? What fstop? do you remember? You have some nice images there!

Mike