Video: Max Silvestri Endorses McCain (and I Shoot It with my Sanyo Xacti CG6)

Above, Max Silvestri's endorsement of John McCain, specially tailored for the elderly. Below, the rough version, shown on March 6th at Silvestri's "I Like Attention" comedy event, held at Williamsburg's Sound Fix Records.

It was the first video I shot using my new Sanyo Xacti CG6 (that wasn't of my dog, anyway), and I have to say that while its video fidelity doesn't hold a candle to my Canon HV20, the ability to keep it in my pocket and to copy .mp4 files right off its memory card up to YouTube makes for an easy workflow. I wanted a still/video camera I could just keep on me at all times, even in the summer with its dearth of pocket space, and for $200 I couldn't be happier. (Well, it'd be nice if it had a lens cap iris instead of a pop-off cap, but I'll manage.)

The CG6 tops out at VGA (640 by 480) video, but for my purposes—getting stuff up onto the web fast—that suits me just fine.

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[#1 posted by georgelazenby , March 18, 2008 5:32 PM]

I can't wait until girls catch up in recognizing how fucking sweet this is.

Then we'll all live like kings.

[#2 posted by Qozmiq , March 19, 2008 1:12 AM]

This is one AMAZING Gadget! And VGA no less!

[#3 posted by phi , March 19, 2008 8:12 AM]

Only issue I have with the Sanyo (which I have the same one) is that it sucks for low light situations for both camera and video recording and every now and then, it will freeze up and choke on the last video I shot. Although I'm suspicious that the latter might be because of crappy SD cards.

Oh, and you can't edit the h.264 videos very well on iMovie (from iLife 06) since the transition audio goes haywire for fade-outs and cross-dissolves. So you have to convert everything to DV (pain in the ass).

[#4 posted by ViolettVerq , March 20, 2008 9:12 AM]

Keep the kids away from the maypoles!