I'm going to milton keynes tomorrow to see the redbull team F1 cars driving around town. I'm going to record a few minutes with my Zoom Q3 HD. Sound should be amazing with the hi def audio mics built in. What do you recommend, 1080@30fps or 720@60fps? 60fps looks infinitely better direct from the camera and watching it on my pc, but youtube cuts it back to 30fps. Would you say there's significant difference between 1080 and 720, and if not, perhaps it's better to stick with 720/60?
Quick question: 720/60fps or 1080/30fps?
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You're better off at 720/60p for shooting F1 cars.
Thanks. That's what I was thinking to get smoother motion. Don't know if it will really be noticeable on youtube as it'll get compressed to 30. But at least I'll have the 60fps watching it direct from the camera.
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as he is shooting them at slow speed in a town i wouldnt have thought you would notice
Wow, for the few seconds I saw the cars shoot up and down the road each time, the quality is really nice and the sound is absolutely superb, really captures the power and volume of the engines of the F1 cars and a nascar car. I've got a dozen short clips, I'll upload a couple of uncompressed ones later so you can see them at 60fps. That's if you don't mind downloading 30mb files.
Does anyone here know of a really good lossless program, free if possible, that will join a dozen MOV clips with absolutely no change at all to the AV? I just tried a program called Emicsoft video converter which is 'ok', but cut a few seconds here and there during the join and did lose some of the edge and volume of the audio quality. The file size became 233MB. I want to keep it exactly like the original, and the individual files come to 573MB.
I've got Pinnacle Studio 12 but it doesn't support MOV. It loads a clip but doesn't play it.
Well the good news is that it's come out perfect, I'd say a 1:1 copy. The bad news is that it's 2.5GB! 
no one is going to download that. How can 573MB of files become 5 times as big, just by joining them together? I can't see how I can maintain the quality and get the file size to under 600MB unless I keep them as separate clips. Any suggestions?
no one is going to download that. How can 573MB of files become 5 times as big, just by joining them together? I can't see how I can maintain the quality and get the file size to under 600MB unless I keep them as separate clips. Any suggestions?
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Because you have probably rendered out a lossless file.
Try rendering out a different format like a H.264 rather than an avi file...
Try rendering out a different format like a H.264 rather than an avi file...
The video is recorded on the camera in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format. I think it's because I had turned the quality all the way up to 100%. A test.mov I did of 1min 10secs at highest quality was 419MB, and a second test.mov of 1 min 10 secs at 20% quality comes out at 36MB. The sound stays identical which is great, while the video quality suffers a bit but not terribly. If I try 50% (which was the default setting) I should be able to get the file size I need with very good AV quality. I'm gonna try that now.
So I succeeded and made a 454MB video of all my joined up clips and kept the quality. 
I posted it in the motorsports forum and can post it here if anyone is interested. Meanwhile, here's one short 20 second clip of a Redbull F1 car making a nice loud noise and doing a doughnut which is directly off the camera at 60fps if you fancy taking a look, it's zipped at 26MB. Open with quicktime to get the sound as well.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/merlin.five//ZOOM0006.rar
I posted it in the motorsports forum and can post it here if anyone is interested. Meanwhile, here's one short 20 second clip of a Redbull F1 car making a nice loud noise and doing a doughnut which is directly off the camera at 60fps if you fancy taking a look, it's zipped at 26MB. Open with quicktime to get the sound as well.http://homepage.ntlworld.com/merlin.five//ZOOM0006.rar