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Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording consumer level HD camcorder, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.
You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.
Consumer level HD camcorders have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording consumer level HD camcorder, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer level HD camcorders all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some consumer level HD camcorders. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.
With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.
You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.
Best Video Camera?
Josh Brean
I want to make some movies. I would like a video camera that supports hot shoe. I would like it to have a fairly decent fps count over like 100. I want it to be hard drive have a good zoom and it be HD. A good image stabilization. " video tape little brother's football games" and I would like it to have support with adobe programs.
Price range under 1,000$ "USD"
Not so needed. But let me know all the camcorders good features.
I also would like it to have auto and manual focus and adjustable shutter speed.
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Sony HDR-HC7 or HC9
Canon HV20 or HV30
Most camcorders shoot at 29.97 frames per second (FPS). Most people just call it 30 FPS. The Sony cams has a burst of higher frame rate called "smooth slow record".
Use a tripod or monopod for stability. Be sure to get a couple of extra rechargeable high capacity batteries - no camcorder comes with a "good" battery in the box.
The four camcorders listed can be manual or auto focus, zoom, exposure, shutter. These cameras also have mic-in jack and manual audio control. The Sony's have a LANC port (wire remote) that is very useful. All of them can also use optional wide-angle or tele lenses.
Best video quality continues to come from miniDV tape based camcorders and all four can have standard definition or high definition video edited by the current version of Adobe video editors.
If you decide you want to use internal hard drive based HD camcorders, be aware that the MPEG2 compressed video (standard definition) and AVCHD compressed (high definition) causes loss of data resulting in reduced video qualitty when compared to miniDV tape recording DV or HDV. Also be advised that the Adobe video editors *might* support Canon AVCHD but not Sony AVCHD camcorders.
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
If you go with the recommended miniDV tape based camcorder, you will need to have a firewire port on your computer for importing the video.
Sony HDR-HC7 or HC9
Canon HV20 or HV30
Most camcorders shoot at 29.97 frames per second (FPS). Most people just call it 30 FPS. The Sony cams has a burst of higher frame rate called "smooth slow record".
Use a tripod or monopod for stability. Be sure to get a couple of extra rechargeable high capacity batteries - no camcorder comes with a "good" battery in the box.
The four camcorders listed can be manual or auto focus, zoom, exposure, shutter. These cameras also have mic-in jack and manual audio control. The Sony's have a LANC port (wire remote) that is very useful. All of them can also use optional wide-angle or tele lenses.
Best video quality continues to come from miniDV tape based camcorders and all four can have standard definition or high definition video edited by the current version of Adobe video editors.
If you decide you want to use internal hard drive based HD camcorders, be aware that the MPEG2 compressed video (standard definition) and AVCHD compressed (high definition) causes loss of data resulting in reduced video qualitty when compared to miniDV tape recording DV or HDV. Also be advised that the Adobe video editors *might* support Canon AVCHD but not Sony AVCHD camcorders.
DO NOT BUY A DVD BASED CAMCORDER.
If you go with the recommended miniDV tape based camcorder, you will need to have a firewire port on your computer for importing the video.
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