Thanks Mark, that's awesome
I feel a bit more re-inspired now.
I have a Canon Legria R506, no external mic but the mic on it is pretty hot so it seems. I'm very much liking the big monitor tip, it's really hard using the small screen to frame things up. I think I can wire it into a big screen so I'll have a go.
I'm actually off to a little festival next weekend so I was hoping to get some proper live stuff there although I'll only have a few mates to film for me who are 'not magic' shall we say, but I'll see how it goes.
As I think I mentioned, the purpose of the vids is just for sending to far off family and friends really. I'm certainly not advertising myself in magical terms just now
Yes the kind of magic I do is close up, and haha it is mainly cards but I do Extreme Burn as my new top trick which generally slays everyone, and a few coin tricks too... 'Metal Sheep', '4 Coins through the table'. So indeed with most of them they don't really come off so well when you don't have at least one extra hand to pick a card, or shuffle the cards for you when you want the action to take place in someone elses hands.
Feel free to add anything you like! The idea of making decent videos in general fascinates me, magical or otherwise and although I've owned in the passed a few digital cameras that took good video this is the first ever camcorder and indeed full HD that I've ever owned. Believe me the full HD aspect makes it more tricky when considering angles. I did a screen test just on a tripod using the small screen as monitor and tried extreme burn
... fine on small screen preview, epic fail on big screen HD haha...oops.
I could say it was the angle, but were I just doing it to a regular live few people I think the angle would have been fine. I've only ever been busted once with EB when my sister was sitting side on to me. The camera sees all where as peoples eyes seem to miss lots more at the exact same position and angle! Does that make sense? Or am I making excuses for my impatience again?
Anyway thanks again for the informative reply and do carry on if you want to ...are you by any chance mint man you man yeah yeah, captain fantastic? Or am I thinking of another Mark Wynn