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Best Camcorder for my needs (see details in question)?
I make short movies as a hobby, but I am especially interested in the editing process–I use After Effects CS3 and Sony Vegas 9. I don’t want HD because it seems to be bothersome to edit HD and I wouldn’t need the quality either way (mostly just videos for youtube). I want good quality (not all my videos are just for youtube) but standard definition and good sound (probably just go with external mic). I don’t really know what’s best as far as using an HDD camcorder or miniDV for purposes of video editing, and any specific reccomendations would be EXTREMEMLY appreciated. I am looking at camcorders probably around $600, not much more please.
Thanks.
Christian
You probably already know that video is only part of the “system”. Audio plays a large role, too… you know this. That means you know that some method of getting good audio with your video is important. An external mic jack on a camcorder is important – but manual audio control is critical.
You have two options with the manual audio control:
1) Get a camcorder with a mic jack and manual audio control. Seems simple enough. The least expensive camcorders with both ar the Canon HV20/HV30/HV40 and the Sony HDR-HC9. Both are miniDV tape based and can capture video in standard definition DV and high definition HDV.
2) Get whatever camcorder you want, and get a “field recorder” like those from Zoom, Edirol, Marantz, M-Audio and others. When you edit the video, replace the audio that was imported with it with the audio captured by the field recorder. Generally speaking, this is how the real film makers do it.
I can’t afford to keep buying hard drives to store all the video I’ve taken – so I continue to use miniDV tape. Not oly is it a cheap way to store lots of information while offloading my computer’s hard drives, it is a good long tern storage/archive method, too.
MiniDV tape storing DV or HDV has that video date stream much less compressed than consumer hard disc drive (or flash memory – they use the same file formats). You can do some quick math – using the cheap $3 per 60 minute Sony Premium tapes, they can hold the equivalent of 14 gig of hard drive space used by 60 minutes of standard definition video. And, in case you decide to take the leap, a cheap $3 per 60 minute Sony Premium tape can up to the equivalent of 44 gig of hard drive space when HDV is captured.
I upload high definition video to YouTube and Vimeo. Just because they are online does not mean you have to cut corners and produce reduced quality products…
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