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A New Camera and New Plugin

Posted by Jonathan | Filed under Blogging, Electronics, Flash, Plugins, Technology, Video, Websites

This weekend Nikki and I purchased a new hard disk Digital Camcorder, the Panasonic SDR-H18 Palmcorder . We have been eyeing hard disk camcorders for a couple of months and had it narrowed down to either a Sony, which was the choice of all but 2 salesmen that we talked to, or the Panasonic that we ended up purchasing. We liked both of them for different reasons. The Sony is considered the main brand, and it had night vision for low light situations. However, the brand name was going to cost a premium. We liked the Panasonic because of it’s clear LCD screen, excellent zoom features and it’s O.I.S. (Optical Image Stablization) system. The O.I.S. system is a free floating lens to help stabilizes the recording of a scene, where as the Sony Camcorder had digital image stabilization that resulted in a fuzzy picture when zoomed in on a subject.While we are still learning all the features, we have been pleased with the results thus far. Once I’ve learned more about it’s uses and given it some more testing in real life, I’ll write a more detailed review. Don’t miss our first video.

With the purchase of a camcorder I had to find a plugin to allow me to post video clips, primarily flash clips on my various blogs and webpages. I first tried the plugin supplied with the Wordpress download v2.0 that remained on my server through my upgrades to 2.3. However, I was unable to get the plugin to work properly and found very little documentation on it’s use or compatibility with Wordpress v2.3, which makes me think it is an obsolete plugin left on my server. So I went searching for a new plugin to run my video clips and discovered the Flash Video Player by Joshua Eldridge designed to implement the flash player designed by Jeroen Wijering. The plugin has satisfactory documentation and is compatible with my version of Wordpress and appears to have plenty of features and options to customize to my site.

Here is my first video recorded with our new camcorder and the first clip with my new plugin.

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