In movies and music videos what kind of camera?

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Jamie

In movies and music videos what kind of camera do they use to film it. I noticed the picture is so clear, and I wanted to know if they used a speacial kind. And how much would one cost?

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The other posters are correct - but for a little more detail... typically, the professionals do not use consumer-grade camcorders. Even if it looks like they are using a consumer camera, that video is not used - it is typically captured by a pro-grade camera and the video is made to look like it was captured by a consumer cam.

If they even use a camcorder, at the low-end, check out the Sony HVR-Z1U, HVR-Z5U, HVR-Z7U; Canon XH and XL series or the Panasonic HVX200 series. Remember, this is the low end. The Sony HDCAMs and XDCAMs are more common at the mid and high end as are the Panasonic DVPRO systems.

Please note than NONE of these records to the highly compressed consumer-grade MPEG2 or AVCHD that consumer hard disc drive, consumer flash memory or consumer DVD camcorders capture. But many of them do record to DV (standard definition) and HDV (high definition) which is the same at that used by ALL miniDV tape based camcorders whether consumer or professional grade. DV/HDV can also be store to external hard drives connected to miniDV tape based camcorders (like the FireStore drives from Focus Enhancements) or, certain flash memory (like the P2 cards used by the higher end Panasonic camcorders. Then there are the special high capacity DVDs used by a few of the high-end Sony pro-grade HDCAM and XDCAM systems...

If they are working in a studio, it is likely they are not using a camcorder, but regular broadcast cameras... watch your local news or Jeopardy (the game show) or any professional football game - they usually have a shots of the the huge studio broadcast cameras at some point...

Are they "special"? Yes, they all have much larger lenses and imaging chips that consumer camcorders do not have. They are nearly ALWAYS on some sort of steadyting device (tripod, shoulder-mount Steadycam/Glidecam vest and articulating arm system, camera crane, etc... and NEVER just handheld. The camera itself is usually a few thousand. The lenses can be as much or more than the camera and the steadying system can also be as much or more than the camera...

In the movie environment, most large budget movies still use film cameras. Check out Panasonic's VariCam, Sony's CineAlta, Arri or PanaVision cameras... A few are moving to digital cams like the Red Scarlet... These systems can easily be $100,000 or more per camera.

What kind of security surveillance do I need?

Adam

We have been robbed 3 times in the past year by the same people. I'm done playing games and I'm ready to invest some money into whatever I need to catch these thieves. My situation is rather difficult to explain but it will do my best to help convey what problems I'm running into.

*I live on a farm but the area that I'm worried about covers 2 about aces. A football field across.
-The house, a pool house in the backyard, two conjoined butler buildings off to the right from the house, and another butler building off to the right of the conjoined buildings.

*The main areas we want to cover is are the 3 building doors (outside) and and a 4th outdoor camera to overlook the house/pool-house.

*The house is a smaller 2 story house and could put a wireless receiver at the upper floor but unsure about how far the signal would get to before being faded or disrupted by the metal roofing of the butler buildings.

*I do have a home network dlink router in the upper floor away from the building, but the signal will not reach even close to where I need it to be. So I have thought about 2 wireless signals disrupting it. So i will need an option for 2.4g or 5 ghz signals.

*We have running electric in all buildings but cant have wires running from the buildings to the house. for obvious reasons.

*I can't have wires laying outside to my house. yet a wireless signal will have to be able to cover the distance and still get enough signal for fluid video camera footage inside my home.

*I need outdoor, nightvision, motion detection cameras with enough storage to keep enough video on it for 4 cameras.

If someone could provide some professional or personal insight on this I would be very grateful. I never had to worry about this before but now I think that I need to have it. Thank you for reading this and I very much like links to surveillance system bundles. :D

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You do have a very unique situation. One of the best solutions we have is our line of D-Link security cameras. They are wireless, outdoor ready, offer motion detection, night vision, and with the D-Link NVR you can customize how much space you want with options starting at 1 TB and going up to 6 TB. With the motion detection mode on you will get around 30 days worth of recording on 1 TB.

The best part about D-Link is that it is the easiest systems that we have seen to install. Many people that don't have computer expertise have been able to install the wireless cameras and start recording within 5 minutes. This is due to D-Link's easy to use setup wizard.

D-Link NVR (supports up to 9 D-Link cameras)
http://www.apexcctv.com/p-1444-d-link-dnr-332l-cloud-based-nvr.aspx

Entry Level IR/Wireless D-Link IP Cube Camera:
http://www.apexcctv.com/p-1465-d-link-dcs-932l-daynight-home-network-camera.aspx

Pan, Tilt, Zoom D-Link IP Camera that will allow you to remotely control the view zone
http://www.apexcctv.com/p-1462-d-link-dcs-5222l-hd-cloud-based-ptz-ip-camera.aspx

Wireless Booster Transmitter: (this will help you carry your wireless signal up to 2 miles)
http://www.apexcctv.com/p-1450-compact-outdoor-24ghz-wireless-transmitter-receiver.aspx
(will need 2 of these one for the transmitter and the other for the receiver)

A single IP camera can cover as much as up to 4 analog cameras so you don't have to have as many cameras.

Since your property is so big it may be better to have some PTZ cameras so that you can remotely turn the camera to view more of an area or you will have to have a few more static cameras to capture more of the area.

If you have any questions don't hesitate to send me a message.

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What is the best digital video camera and software to record a college lecture and how would I do it?

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epicureani

How would you recommend capturing the slides or writing on the board? I was wondering if a separate digital camera would be necessary so low quality video would capture the lecture, then a still camera would capture the slides. What do you think, and is there a single product or package that can do this job without a person needing to click the capture button?

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Depending on the length of the lecture. So if we say 1 hour then we can work from that.

HDD camcorders are a good option, you can get plenty of video on the camera, I assume if its a lecture then you will not want to edit it.

Media card cameras as above but you need to check that you can get enough video on the card.

Mini-DVD not a good option, for good quality video you will need to change the disks.

Mini-DV on normal play you can get 60 minutes but it can be incresed to 90 if you use long play, quality is reduced a little.

You can of course use some cameras to capture directly to a laptop, then you are not limited by storage on the camcorders.

Videoing the lecture, use a tripod, keep the image steady, if possible put a mic by the speaker, as most lecture rooms are bad for audio, too many echo's If you can put the camera directly infront of the speaker, and as close as you can.

there are some tips

hope it all sorts out and you get your camera

Good luck

RR

How do I use web cam to record?

Dr.Y

I am technologically challenged. I want to record some lectures from school, can I do that with a webcam? If so which one would you recomend to use with thinkpad tablet?

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Generally you can not use a webcam to record schoo lectures (unless it's attached to your laptop and you have a whole shmeer of software and a microphone to boot).

the best thing to do is to get a video camera or digital camera that will also record moving video. You are talking about capacities that also need to be of 30 minutes or greater, this speaks loudly to needing storage. there is a digital webcam, that records on SD cards, to the tune of 1 hour per SD card, for under $200.

Do some googling. Older cams are cheap as it stands. You are not looking for Holllywood but instead for functionality. The cameras of the past ten years beat the stuff pros used 35 years ago. It'll look fine.

Google again, as you need to learn about storing the videos / moving them to your PC (USB versus firewire) or simply playing them through your home TV/DVD/VCR (which is still the tried and true easy way to watch)

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