Some tips if you are using the Sanyo Xacti VPC HD1010 camcorder supplied with the HCC usability kits.
The HD1010 supports video recording in any of eight formats, shown in Table 1. A frame rate of 60 fps is actually saved as 59.94 fps. A frame rate of 30 fps is actually saved as 29.97 fps.
| Name | Resolution (pixels) | Frame Rate (fps) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-HD | 1920×1080 | 60 | |
| Full-SHQ | 1920×1080 | 30 | |
| HD-HR | 1280×720 | 60 | |
| HD-SHQ | 1280×720 | 30 | |
| TV-HR | 640×480 | 60 | |
| TV-SHQ | 640×480 | 30 | |
| Web-SHR | 448×336 | 300 | no audio |
| Web-SHQ | 320×240 | 30 |
For the purpose of external recording for usability testing, 30 frames per second is sufficient. I suggest you record in Full-SHQ mode (1920×1080, 30 fps). Film a test clip and check that your video editing software can handle it.
Videos are saved in MP4 format as files with the extension
.MP4 (rename later to lower case). Pressing the red Rec
button starts a new file, pressing Rec again stops recording and
closes the file. The files are automatically numbered in sequence by
the camera. A longer recording is saved in segments of 4 GB each.