With my somewhat recent purchase of a Canon HV10 digital video camera. I have been getting real excited by internet video, of course the recent AppleTV helps that excitement. Now, I have no plans to launch any sort of video podcast or anything like that. Even though I did register areyouageek.tv, it just forwards this blog. I am however having a lot of fun messing with some home family video’s. I have an account on Blip.tv and also upload some to my .mac account to share with family and some friends. My main for reason not fully enjoying video is the time it takes to encode video. I am working on my Powerbook and its sometimes slow, of course I have been shooting in HD, so that adds to that time factor.

I have been taking some video’s and I have been learning to edit using iMovie HD. Nothing fancy for me yet, at least let me learn the basics first. I am excited about this new device that has been announced, the Elgato Turbo.264. This Turbo.264 should be available in the US by the end of April for $99. I can only hope this is true, because I will run out and get one ASAP. The only downfall for me is that although it will encode my HD video clips to H.264 the maximum output is limited to 800×600.

But that would work well for me because my main concern is that I can upload these to web to share and for that I would downgrade the quality anyway.

Via: engadgetHD