So I'm relatively new here, I will give you my story:

I graduated from SFSU in May '05 w/ a degree in cinema production, but I had no camera. I got a laptop as a graduation present, and then in February, fate decided to grant me a camera in the forum of a coked-out filipino guy driving right into the side of my car (with me in it) and totaling it.

I took the settlement and invested in the HVX200 which I'd been following for some time, as my first "real" camera. I'm stiill waiting on my P2 card and a video tripod (I was using a $30 camera tripod which is barely better than holding the camera myself), which arrive this week.

Here's my first bit of footage, 3 1-minute clips of my mom's parrots, Colonel Sanders and Andromeda. They're heavily compressed, clips 1 and 3 are Mpeg4 200kbps, 2.3 megs, and clip 2 is Mpeg4 800kbps, 7.4 megs.

I'm still learning a lot, but I was really impressed with the colours and the capture of movement.

http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Parrots-01.mp4
http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Parrots-02.mp4
http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Parrots-03.mp4

Having trouble with your files. How about a quicktime version?

I went ahead and did up another version, just a 50 meg quicktime file.

http://www.jlboyce.com/video/Parrots-04.mov