Joe Hanna
October 23rd, 2007, 08:15 AM
Hi, I own an Gl-2 and a newly pruchased XL-1. I do a lot of sports events and highschool proms in my community, I use pinnacle studio for editing and do have some buck's in it and not sure If it was worth the money sometime's I have burn failures and need to compile the project again, sometimes two or three failures. the whole rendering and compiling process can take as long as 3hrs for a 1hr video I'm not sure if it is a software problem or hardware issue using a dell computer with 40GB hard drive and store all the video on a slave 80GB so
I don't use up the master drive space. Any comments on this issue will be appreaciated. I do this stuff on the side mostly as a hobby, I started out filming my Kids playing football, softball, and basketball, our local Highschool football coach saw some of my footage of my sons youthgame and ask me to join his staff.
I think whe he saw the quality picture of the GL-2 had to offer compaired to what they were using, he was sold which made me a popular guy I have since been recruted by our line coach to shoot close up footage of his line so he can evauluate the lineman I started out using a extra sony hi-8 for this purpose which did not turn out well due to low light conditions for highschool football. I then purchased a fuji minidvd which I returned after one game. I then got some advice from a (pro) a Circuit City that said Sony was the best which was Hard drive format One game and it was gone to So I decided to get what has been reliable camera being Canon product I tried to get an GL-2 but found a good deal on the XL-1 with low hours. My wonder wife does the line close ups and shes does a good job at it.
This camera freaked me out at first until I found this site which has been a god send the info here is unbelievable I get on just about everyday to view the community forum Don. P has helped me out a bunch not to mention others. thanks everyone!!!
I don't use up the master drive space. Any comments on this issue will be appreaciated. I do this stuff on the side mostly as a hobby, I started out filming my Kids playing football, softball, and basketball, our local Highschool football coach saw some of my footage of my sons youthgame and ask me to join his staff.
I think whe he saw the quality picture of the GL-2 had to offer compaired to what they were using, he was sold which made me a popular guy I have since been recruted by our line coach to shoot close up footage of his line so he can evauluate the lineman I started out using a extra sony hi-8 for this purpose which did not turn out well due to low light conditions for highschool football. I then purchased a fuji minidvd which I returned after one game. I then got some advice from a (pro) a Circuit City that said Sony was the best which was Hard drive format One game and it was gone to So I decided to get what has been reliable camera being Canon product I tried to get an GL-2 but found a good deal on the XL-1 with low hours. My wonder wife does the line close ups and shes does a good job at it.
This camera freaked me out at first until I found this site which has been a god send the info here is unbelievable I get on just about everyday to view the community forum Don. P has helped me out a bunch not to mention others. thanks everyone!!!