For the past few years I have been operating a running website with my dad where we do event coverage of high school, youth, and road running. We have always shot video of the races and uploaded it to our website using a Canon GL2, an HD, professional camcorder.
While the GL2 has made our videos look much better due to general stability control, we still have a very amateur style and look to our videos.
For example, here's a quick video I found. This gives you a general idea of the quality of our videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uJAKJPpjJA
After viewing a lot of videos recently of others who use generally the same camcorder, I'm pretty envious of the mere quality of image, array of colors, and lighting to the videos.
The two videos that stick out in my head that just have great color, image quality, and look really tight (sorry I don't know photo lingo) are these two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ9US-a8Hzw
http://vimeo.com/4528309
What I'm trying to figure out is how do I get my videos to have those clean edges, great colors, and have a really nice "look" to the general color of everything around?
Anybody understand what I mean?
I don't know the first thing to adjusting lighting or any of that jazz, nonetheless what capabilities this camcorder has in doing so, so I need a full rundown of what would needed to be adjusted to do this and how to do it.
Any help is very greatly appreciated, thanks!
-Jesse