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A random collection of videos I've made over the past few days with my new high-def camcorder.
It's partly to test YouTube's newish support for HD videos (and get me used to editing them), and partly just to show off some high-resolution randomness.

Note that this should not be regarded as a full test of HD. Many of the clips are not showing the full performance of the camera due to several things including me locking the focus in a wrong position, and multiple recompressions of the video once on the computer. These are things which I intend to get better at with practise.

Things shown, in order of appearance:
- Kitchen.
- Snow.
- Random cat.
- Plane landing against a great sunset.
- My bro playing part of a song he made on electric guitar.
- Condensation on a window, car.
- It's over 9000! ...GB
- Tabby cat walking away from me.
- Holly leaves, garden.
- My comp failing to play MaiKaze's Touhou anime.
- Birds around trees.
- Papercraft Remilia in the making. (Head = hat...)
- Random plant leaves and branches.
- Tabby cat on chair.
- Korg Radias synth.
- Inside of main comp.
- My brother's band from his school.
- Random bird walking on path.
- More from my bro's band.
- Trees and plants.
- My server and the weirdness on top of it.
- The nastiness which is me.
- Yeah, that's fine.
- Closer view of a plane landing.
- Me failing to jump, at high frame-rates.
- My program bending Miku into a waveform.
- Sleeping tabby cat.
- YEEEAAAHHH!
- A fire is added. Oh, wait...
- Subwoofer making a memory stick fly.
- Rev limiter being reached.
- Food being cooked.
- LAN cable spaghetti.
- Seagulls and geese being fed.

Software / Camera info:
The camera is a Sony HDR-SR12E. This records interlaced video at 1920x1080. I had to scale the video down to 1280x720 for YouTube.
Because the video is interlaced at 25 frames/sec, when deinterlacing and keeping both fields you can get 50 FPS video.
The camera has a "Smooth Slow Rec" feature which lets it record at 100 FPS for 3 seconds. Again, when deinterlacing, you can expand this to 200 FPS (1/8x speed!) without losing any frames. However, the video quality is not so high when using Smooth Slow Rec.

I used TMPGEnc 4 to deinterlace and compress the original AVCHD (MTS) files. I used Adobe Premiere Pro 7 (yep, old) to arrange the individual clips, but since I just threw them together with no fancy effects, pretty much any video-arranging program would've done the trick.