ISight and movement.

I am thinking about buying iSight to use with iMovie HD. My question;
How does iSight handle movment of the subject?
Example; Sports, say I video someone doing a Judo throw.
Thanks Ed

Hello Edward,
iSight will be OK for short clips in good light, but if your primary use will be to make movies, I think you will be better served with your camcorder.
See msg # 1 at Recoding Roadtrip With iSight or FW Camera for more explanation.
Moreover, as explained in Apple's iSight's video "stutters" in low light when I turn it on KB article, iSight's frame rate slows down when light levels fall.
If you use iMovie to record with iSight, you may experience video freezes. This is a commonly reported, but not universal, problem for those using iMovie with iSight (iMovie 4 or later required to record iSight). It apparently occurs because iMovie demands the full 30 FPS DV stream. When iSight slows the frame rate to preserve image quality, iMovie video fails. You can read more about this by searching iSight Discussions for "iMovie Freeze" (without the quotation marks.)
If you do not already have a camcorder, you may be interested in something like Sanyo C5 Digital Media Camera, which was featured in yesterday's QuickTime News.
EZ Jim

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