{"video_id":"k6YRKvCkWLM","title":"Canon XA10 Prosumer 1080p Full HD Camcorder Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":518,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":8.4,"text":"this is probably the most exciting unboxing i've done in a while this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.56,"end_s":12.24,"text":"the canon xa10 hd camcorder so we are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.4,"end_s":14.08,"text":"finally upgrading our ancient sony hd","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.24,"end_s":20.48,"text":"camcorder that we use for shooting ncix tech tips this is an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.44,"end_s":21.52,"text":"sd sdhc sd xc","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.48,"end_s":28.32,"text":"um camcorder so what it means is we're recording completely onto solid 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uh","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":480.56,"end_s":487.68,"text":"here we can change between a few different modes manual auto and cinema","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":485.52,"end_s":492.479,"text":"oh i think this is focus right is that focus yeah cameraman says that's focus","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":489.44,"end_s":493.84,"text":"so we have manual focus now high","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":492.479,"end_s":499.68,"text":"technology for ncix tech tips","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":496.16,"end_s":501.44,"text":"and uh i think that's pretty much it so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":499.68,"end_s":506.479,"text":"oh okay okay okay we have to do one more shot here we have to do one more shot okay here give me give me this give me","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":504.08,"end_s":509.84,"text":"this okay cameraman has to hold the camera and then i'm gonna show you guys","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":508.56,"end_s":514.479,"text":"a glimpse of the cameraman this is what it looks like when he's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":512.8,"end_s":519.12,"text":"holding a camera thanks for checking out this unboxing online as tech tips don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":516.0,"end_s":519.12,"text":"forget to subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"this is probably the most exciting unboxing i've done in a while this is the canon xa10 hd camcorder so we are finally upgrading our ancient sony hd camcorder that we use for shooting ncix tech tips this is an sd sdhc sd xc um camcorder so what it means is we're recording completely onto solid state media which is pretty nice both for speed and for convenience all right um all right what do we got here so this is probably okay warranty registration card oh a transfer utility so yeah we're finally replacing the ncix tech tips camera i'm so stoked this is a much higher quality much higher caliber of camera than what we've used in the past okay we got a transfer utility here we got um camcorder music data image mix data disk okay sure why not uh register your camcorder now and receive exclusive benefits from canon okay uh canon professional services transfer utility installation guide woohoo instruction manual so this is like thick this is a big old instruction manual one third of it is english so it shows you how to change the timeline you know what let me see if i can find something with the general uh specs of the unit so that i have something to refer to because i haven't really looked at any information about it since i pre-ordered it which was like two months ago uh it's taken a really long time to come in stock okay so here's the highlights of the xa10 so i'm gonna put that aside for myself to refer back to and let's start finding some accessories and whatnots here okay oh my goodness i don't even know where to begin with this okay this looks like a battery pack we're just gonna like open stuff up because we're gonna be using this camera today hopefully yeah intelligent lithium-ion battery you see that okay okay all right what do we got next next we have a remote wireless controller okay next we have some screws okay those are mounting screws for something in all likelihood another little battery okay some kind of little clip i better not lose any of this stuff looks like there's some assembly required here folks here's the lens cover thing put that on the end of the camera excellent okay what do we got here uh power brick and uh this garbage is gonna start blowing away if i don't find something to do with it so here you can look at the power brick while i figure out what to do with my garbage i'm just gonna put it in my pocket for now i think okay okay we're good so power brick uh power cord nothing really exciting there okay now we're getting into some cables so our first cable is a component out cable so that uses a little interface on the camera outputs component for monitoring what you're doing all right next we got so this is where our looks like our mics plug into so we have two channels there little buttons to eject them we've been using like a consumer level camera up until now oh look at all this so we can like change it and stuff cameraman probably knows a lot better than me what all of this does because i'm kind of a camera idiot but that's a zoom right that's zoom yeah he's giving me the indication that that is indeed zoom some kind of lock start stop oh okay now it's not locked sweet so here's a shoe for um i don't know flash whatever it is it looks good love it okay next we have this some other kind of more different bracket it's got like soft rubber on it here and here hold something okay look cameras are not my strong point guys you wanted to see a professional camera unboxing go somewhere else this is just me unboxing my new toy okay usb 2 for transferring files and finally composite output from the camera itself so that's just your um single video and then stereo audio so now i have the xa10 camera which is safely packaged inside bubble wrap it's actually really small i was expecting it to be a little bit bigger so uh here why don't i just read off the packaging what some of the key features are ham highlights of the xa10 hd recording with a uh digit dv3 processor cool okay one third inch cmos sensor that captures video it infects a pixel count of approximately 2.07 megapixels which is 1080p okay wide zoom lens with a focal length at full at wide angle of 30.4 you know i'm just going to hold this out here and cameraman can look at it because he knows what's interesting and i don't uh emphasis on versatility manual controls at your fingertips face detection infrared recording ooh in the dark so we can do like uh night tech tips uh relay recording and double slot recording so when your sd card is full you can just um oh simultaneously to two memory cards which is a convenient way to back up your recordings interesting or you can record to one then the other and just swap memory cards as you go so that you can record without interruption other features audio you can use the built-in microphone mic audio input terminal or the two xlr audio input terminals when recording lcd screen and viewfinder why don't we have a look at that 100 frame coverage which ensure that you can accurately check that your shots are framed how you want them so let's just go ahead and open that up nice big wide screen you know what let's see if the uh battery pack has any charge on it sometimes they do you never know okay let's uh figure out where the button is to do the thing oh okay hold on maybe i can mount this too so ah so this goes on here so that's pretty straightforward oh no no it slides in here first so you slide in like lift this up lift these up slide in like that once you have them lifted up sufficiently there we go put that back in there make sure it's making good contact screw these bad boys in new tech tips camera okay gotta get them lined up before they'll screw in that makes sense that's very intuitive okay got that there so yeah i don't even know what that thing is up there but so we assembled it a little bit now uh we did not put the microphone holder on since i do use a lapel mic that mounts right here so uh yeah we won't be using that at all we'll just be using our little wireless unit and then let's uh it's not charged at all so i can't really show you guys any of that we got powered image stabilization got our touch screen here that little piece that i couldn't figure out what it was that's a stylus so we won't be using that in all likelihood okay here we can switch between uh playback and recording mode here's where the sd cards go pretty sweet yeah yeah infrared on and off it's very ergonomic i'll tell you guys that much like the the feel of it is very nice so i can very easily reach the zoom controls up here slides very smoothly so that'll be good for nice smooth zoom shots from cameraman here's the viewfinder if we're not using an external display which we in all likelihood will be using this is something no idea okay start stop uh here we can change between a few different modes manual auto and cinema oh i think this is focus right is that focus yeah cameraman says that's focus so we have manual focus now high technology for ncix tech tips and uh i think that's pretty much it so oh okay okay okay we have to do one more shot here we have to do one more shot okay here give me give me this give me this okay cameraman has to hold the camera and then i'm gonna show you guys a glimpse of the cameraman this is what it looks like when he's holding a camera thanks for checking out this unboxing online as tech tips don't forget to subscribe"}