testing something.
So today I decided to futz around with the video mode on my regular digital camera — a Nikon CoolPix 4500. Mostly just testing it out.
The first thing that I discovered that — while it will automatically flip photos when the lens is rotated backwards — it records video upside-down when pointing backwards. A bit annoying.
Then I discovered that it will only record for 35 seconds at a time. My cheap Aiptek will record continuously until the SD card runs out. Why can’t a $700 (at the time) camera do that?
So if I want to use it on a semi-regular basis, I’ll need to import a bunch of short videos into iMovie and stitch them together (not a problem), and if any of them are of my mug, I’ll first need to open each video in Quicktime and rotate it, then import it into iMovie.
Yar.
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Yes, I do know how to rotate video. I thought this might make things a tiny bit more interesting.