Nature Montage

I got outside and took some footage of squirrels and used for the first time the HICKS Cannon camera.  I got the tripod and the mic kit for it too.  I spent about an hour looking for footage and got about 20 minutes of footage.  Going into the DLC, I spent 5 hours getting the computer to read in the tape and compiling it.  I spent a majority of that time trying to figure out why the quality was terrible for an HD camera and after trying multiple programs and encodings, it still sucked, so I went with my best combination which was iMovie and a Windows Media 9 encoding.