It seems that shooting in High Definition makes quite a difference even on Youtube.

I thought that some rendering technique would have made the difference in inputs insignificant. After all, one is throwing so much definition/quality away when uploading to Youtube, so how come my mediocre (no! quite good!) camera can't just use a less lossy rendering technique?

But here is a very short view from my window in full HD and it seems to blow my other camera out of the water.
http://ds21.cc.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/~econo/temp/test2.mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbk2U9D0_lM

(The watermarks are there because I am using a demo version of Raylight to import to Vegas. )

But editing and just about everything else is a lot slower in HD and I can only record 8 minutes!

Tim