I watched indoor soccer and learned something too.
This evening, my son Owen and I ventured out to watch my niece (Owen's cousin) Cameron play indoor soccer at The Summit Tennis and Atheltic Club in Altoona, PA. It was our first time taking in an indoor soccer game and I must say it was fun to watch, and the girls playing definitely looked like they were having fun as well. Owen enjoyed it so much, he wanted to stay for the next game.
Anyway, as I watched the game I decided I was in a pretty good position to take some video shots with my phone, a Motorola Droid. Normally, I would use my Flip Mino for such occasions, but I didn't bring it along. One of the main reasons I don't normally use my phone for shooting video is because in the past, I had to convert the native .3gp video files to a usable format on my Mac for editing. Adding a step to the process wasn't exactly ideal, so I have mostly avoided shooting video with my phone. Another factor in using the Flip as opposed to the Droid was video quality. While the Droid is capable of video resolution near HD, it still isnt quite there. While it is still very high quality, it isn't quite the 720p resolution I get with the Flip Mino.
After shooting a few minutes of footage, it occured to me that I hadn't yet tried to import the Droid's native .3gp video files into iMovie '11 yet, which I have installed on my MacBook Air. To my surprise, when I fired up iMovie and connected my phone to my computer, iMovie had no problems importing the video files into a new project. No longer do I have to endure using third party software to use the video I shoot on my phone. One advantage to shooting with the Droid is the size of the screen. It's so uch easier to get a good look at what you're shooting on the Droid, as opposed to the very small video screen on the Flip Mino.
The following video is the result of my experience, and experiment. Enjoy!
