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960 x 540 = 518,400 pixels
1920 x 1080 = 2,073,600 pixels

2,073,600 / 518,400 = 4

960 x 540 = 1/4 (1920 x 1080)

You can put 4 rectangles 960×540 in a single rectangle 1920×1080, so it is a quarter of its size.

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Hi again,

Here is the Math:

1920/2= 960
1080/2= 540

so 960×540 is half a size of 1920×1080

am I wrong?

Best Regards

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anybody know if the cam will have 25fps (PAL) for the european market?
Sick video footage Vincent!

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From the Canon Site Warning:
DUE TO HIGH DEMAND OF VIDEO CLIPS WE HAVE EXCEEDED OUR DOWNLOAD CAPACITY.
WE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING ALTERNATIVE HOSTING METHODS.
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From the Canon Site Warning:
DUE TO HIGH DEMAND OF VIDEO CLIPS WE HAVE EXCEEDED OUR DOWNLOAD CAPACITY.

WE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING ALTERNATIVE HOSTING METHODS.

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It’s what we want, a HIGHEND STILL CAMERA, and a HIGHEND VIDEO. I don’t see why some even post negative before even trying it. I swear they are the ones who sit at a green light and then punch-it in reverse.
Go ahead and drag all that dual luggage to Europe.
I’ll take one Thank You. I’ve waited long enough to go forward.

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I’ve been wanting to purchase a video camera (Sony HDR-SR12) but just been looking around. I’d be consider quite a novice compared to most of you folks! So here is my question: Is this camera and all it’s extraordinary features a better option for HD Video in making small family videos. I’d wait and spend the dollars if this new technology is worth it…or this this camera too much for a novice…Additionally I collect rare 18th century maps and will need to make close up shots for my book…would this camera be a good choice and what lens would you recommend for close up shots and for regular shots? Thank you so much for your help. and Vincent the video was just remarkable and extraordinary it blew me away!!!!

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One very important thing that concerns me as mention above is the ability to “edit” the footage, an example would be using one of the best apps out there Vegas. Is the H.264 format going to cause apps to crash when you try to load it up and then begin to slice and dice it. I’m not an Apple user, I’m a PC user and I’m not going to spend even more money after buying the camera and lenses to get Mac to do the editing..that would be out of the question for me, plus I really love using Vegas video (NLE) for my editing.

Any further info on this subject appreciated.

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How do you check for sound when you are shooting video?

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wow! congratulations! i definitely want to do it next year.

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Man, that looked like fun. Always wanted to go on a big, supported ride like this.

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Opus (#45) - “most of the SUVs are made in Mexico” - really? Where are you getting your information?

Explorer, Mountaineer, Ranger: Kentucky
Expedition, F-Series: Michigan (F-series also Kentucky)
Navigator: Michigan
Nissan pickups: Tennessee
Sidekick, Tracker: Ontario, Canada
Escalade, Tahoe, Yukon, Suburban: Texas, Wisconsin
Saturn Outlook: Michigan
Rainier, Trailblazer, Envoy: Ohio, Oklahoma
Silverado, Sierra: Michigan, Ontario

I could go on for Ford and Chrysler, but most SUVs are built in the US and Canada (almost exclusively Ontario), not Mexico. Mexico has quite a few plants, but not as many as the US.

Ford’s Mexican plants build mid-size sedans, not SUVs. Mexico’s other biggest assembly plant is Volkswagen. Only GM SUVs are built in Mexico, like the Suburban and the Avalanche, and GM’s newest Mexico plant only builds for the Mexican car market, not the US. GM also has plants in Ecuador and Brazil which build for the South American market - US sales only account for 1/3 of GM’s revenue. Chrysler builds Ram trucks there, but also PT Cruisers.

a.O. (#50) - It’s not the managers who are the problem, it’s the executives. (managers are middle-class low-end white collar workers who typically make about $60k-100k per year, only about 1.5x what the line workers make) The money should come with strings attached, to motivate the industry to change. The main reason I’m concerned about keeping the industry is the equipment and facilities it contains. The automotive industry is the last real heavy industry in the US - we’ve exported the majority of our manufacturing to other countries, and the equipment has also gone overseas. With energy costs where they are, we need to re-localize production. We need hi-speed rail, and transit, and the automotive industry has the equipment and facilities to construct that, as well as the transportation connections to do so - all at low cost. If we lose it now, we lose it for good.

Job re-training is great, but you can only re-train about 50%-70% of the workers. For a 100,000 person employer, like one of the Big Three, that means 30,000-50,000 people are going to be severely impacted. Not only that, but what about all the pensioners? I’ve made some simplifications in my prior post, but the issue is a lot more complex than what can be discussed in these comments.

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250,000 per person??? That’s not right. That can’t be right. When I first read that I thought, “hell, yeah, give ME that money.” but then I realized that 250,000 per person is more taxes than the government collects in a year, so now I have to step in as the resident math teacher and inform you that 85,000,000,000 divided by 300,000,000 americans only comes out to $283 per person. That might buy you groceries for a month if you are a vegetarian. Even when you include the 700B for wall street, it is only a couple of thousand per person. I’m wondering if the article you read meant to give it to the employees of those companies. No thanks please, just doing my part to stamp out math illiteracy when I see it.=)

In any case, I’m not worried about the unemployment. It just feels so frustrating and ironic that for most of my life I’ve complained about corporate america and been given the argument that it is what Americans want and we choose that with how we spend our dollars. Well, now that it’s failing, why are we bailing them out??? Maybe the fallout of this painful transition could be a return to simpler times and a comeback of the small business. Let’s let it happen. If we are worried about all those employees, then give THEM the bailout money, not the corporations!

If they would give HALF that money to schools, we could solve so many problems. Or, we could eliminate hunger in this country where 13% of our children don’t know where their next meal is coming from (probably more now). We could set up a healthcare system where NO ONE had to worry about whether to pay the rent or go to the doctor. Social services are SO cheap in comparison to so many other things. This bailout makes me more than frustrated, I’m fuming. I’m absolutely outraged at the misplaced priorities and the openly greased palms of the Good Old Boys. BTW, If Oregonians pass the merit pay for teachers, while we are being forced to implement unfunded mandates…

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“If we just let the companies fall, we’ve allowed the market to take its course, but we also punish a million or more workers who are just trying to work a job to support their families.”

Not necessarily, Matt. There is no reason why a different plan could not provide financial assistance and job re-training to the Big 3 employees while allowing the inevitable to happen, instead of continuing to prop up managers who are destined to fail - or, perhaps more accurately, destined to show up on DC with hat in hand again in a few years.

The idea that you have to continue this corporate welfare to help the people who really get hurt when these corporations fold is just not true. When other manufacturing jobs disappeared during the Clinton years, the administration’s policy was not to keep feeding the companies cash, but to create industry-specific assistance and re-training programs.

I say give the money to the workers and let the managers pay the price for their bad decisions.

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How much in the way of conditions can congress propose and implement before running into the wall of ‘too much government interference’? This seems to be an ever pressing conflict surrounding the concept of regulated free market capitalism that the U.S. owes it success to.

As a part of the bailout due to the banking crisis, some congress persons were suggesting that some level of public ownership of the loan companies that ran into such trouble, be a condition of the bailout. I haven’t heard lately; wonder how well that idea flew.

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Pete (#34) - very valid points. I’m not saying the $25B shouldn’t come without conditions. Government should be using this opportunity to change the direction of the industry.

As for Toyota “turning on a dime” - they don’t. They are nearly as slow as GM, Ford and Chrysler to implement change. Where they excel is in their ability to forecast where the market is going and their willingness to start making the change well in advance of the market shift rather than milking the current trend until its end.

We really need to be punishing the senior exec who got things into this mess - which is why the bailout should have conditions. If we just let the companies fall, we’ve allowed the market to take its course, but we also punish a million or more workers who are just trying to work a job to support their families. All that does is shrink the middle class, and the top execs will jump ship with a nice severance package and move to other companies.

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crooked damn country

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And yes I know that not everyone is as altruistic as I am.

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Or Priuses (Pria?) or whatever? NBT just as long as they spend it on American products (which actually leaves out most of the SUVs as they are made in Mexico) The thing is The People can do a much better job bailing out the economy with that money than people who have demonstrated inability to manage a company (except to extract a lottery winner’s size annual salary before running it into the ground). Paying off mortgages and buying stuff would employ Us, and also getting rid of debt then frees up money which can be used for other things, like paying living expenses. i would even let the CEOs of all those failed companies have their share, if they leave the companies they ran into the ground and never lead another corporation again.

Also since there is so much local infrastructure going to ruin, how about selling naming rights to various bits and pieces. I know a couple of HS locker rooms I would like to plaster my moniker over. Have fundraisers to get some of those bailout $ from the people to the projects that need work. “Potholes on this street repaired by a grant from Opus the Poet.” “Curbs and sidewalks on this block courtesy of a grant from Opus the Poet.”

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Opus-
While I applaud the idea, the sad thing is how many people would rush out and buy SUV’s.

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I was reading in another blog that they should just take the $85B they were going to give Lehman Bros and AIG and give it directly to the people (that would be you and me) which would work out to roughly $250,000 per person after taxes. With that most people could pay off their mortgages with lots left over to create new businesses. I personally have been trying to start a bike building business for years, but because I don’t have the capital to buy tools, parts, and raw materials I have been scraping by recycling cast-off bikes from the curbs into bikes that can be ridden by adults without pain. I could be making the next generation of Human Powered commercial vehicles instead…

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Exelent im very impressed with Your Video and this what You did You should get from CANON 10 FREE 5D MARK II …Your blog and Your Video sold this camera to me I’m ordering this camera tomorrow.

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Now my brain is churning….I wonder what we are to expect from the EOS 1Ds IV. Assuming Canon has been seeing the avalanche of interest in the HD capabilities of the 5DII by the customers. A shoot through mirror with 2/3 drop would be acceptable but implementation of TV and AV and full manual would float my boat. Sound in reality need not be addressed as there are enough small portable digital sound recorders floating about.

Just as an after thought, was there a need to use AF with the EF lenses in video mode..? Manual focus with focus confirmation would make life easier.

Thank you Mr. Laforet for bringing this to us. Beautiful job.

Harsha

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Cet appareil-photo est génial ! et vous aussi !

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Sean,
Your critical post is easy to find if you know how to do a search on a page (hint: CTRL-F)

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