good camcorder

[Nitro RC Basher]

I'm looking for a good camcorder. nothing to expensive. easy to transfer to my computer. good for videotaping my truck. any suggestions.

 

[ohmygahitscoby]

What price range are you looking at? I found some nice ones, but more in the $400+ range.

 

[Nitro RC Basher]

300 max

 

[Cupooterluvr]

My little Nikon 5600 Coolpix takes REALLY good videos (that's what I've used for all my Youtube videos) even though it is a picture camera. http://www.samsdigitaldiscounts.com...lpix-5600-5MP-Digital-Camera-25525-FONT-.html

It has a microphone and speaker built in for taking sound, and they work really well. It sounds like you took it with an actual video camera.

 

[swarmjt]

I've got one that i love.. its one of those hard drive cameras.. they go for about what ur budjet is on ebay

 

[CharliesTheMan]

I was getting ready to ask this same exact question. I would prefer a digital with a hard drive, and it needs to be nice camera that will take decent quality video but something that I'm not afraid to take outside. I'm looking for something under $500 if possible.

 

[neobart]

I prefer camcorders that use DV tapes. Solely because the record it in raw data. Might not be as easy as a hard disk drive one that records in AVI, but much better if you're going to edit it.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

keep the info coming. I completely understand that neo and I didn't even think about it. My parents used to own a television production company and studio so I've been around some editing equipment in the past as you can imagine. I think I will look into the DV tapes simply because of the raw data. Thanks for that VERY helpful info that I hadn't even considered.

 

[digger]

keep the info coming.

What he said!

I need one pretty bad.
Mine was bought in '96 and uses the big VHS tapes. :surrender


Probably hasn't been out of the case for 5 years or so.

I was thinking about 4 or 5 to get a new one.

 

[Nitro RC Basher]

ahh. this is helping more than one person. glad to here that. I'm going to grab that nikon when i get some extra dough because i starr working again next week

Digger-- aw man. those are the best. the big ones that you hold over your shoulder or the little one you can hold in your hands? either way i think the tapes take the best movies. its just hard to get it onto a computer.

My parents used to own a television production company and studio

dude you have everything. lucky

 

[neobart]

Yeah you need Firewire or IEEE 1394 for you techies out there, in order to capture the raw data from the camera.

I use Kino for capturing and Cinelerra for editing in Linux.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

ahh. this is helping more than one person. glad to here that. I'm going to grab that nikon when i get some extra dough because i starr working again next week

Digger-- aw man. those are the best. the big ones that you hold over your shoulder or the little one you can hold in your hands? either way i think the tapes take the best movies. its just hard to get it onto a computer.



dude you have everything. lucky

I do have a lot and I'm very blessed, but I lost Dad a few years back, and he was the most important part of my life. My step-mother sold the business not too long after that because she was very ill and dad had taken over as CEO, she couldn't do it on her own. Some of you may remember a show that was during the news called "Healthbreak" Its where a doctor comes on for 2 minutes during a weekly news segment and talks about a certain heath topic, disease, treatment, etc... Well Healthbreak was started by my step-mother a long time ago. She also started a web business known as Web-Health, but it was in the dot com era and everything started to crash on the dot com market to it never really took off.