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JimmyHat

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With a baby on the way, my wife and I are looking into buying a camcorder. Something digital, so that she can transfer the video to her iBook G4 and (maybe) edit it.

I've been looking around the web, but haven't found any clear and easy to understand website with good info about camcorders.

Where do you get your info? I've seen the PCWorld camcorder stuff, camcorderinfo.com, etc. but it all seems too generic so far. Of course, I'm completely new to all of this...
 
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JimmyHat said:
With a baby on the way, my wife and I are looking into buying a camcorder. Something digital, so that she can transfer the video to her iBook G4 and (maybe) edit it.

I've been looking around the web, but haven't found any clear and easy to understand website with good info about camcorders.

Where do you get your info? I've seen the PCWorld camcorder stuff, camcorderinfo.com, etc. but it all seems too generic so far. Of course, I'm completely new to all of this...
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I started a THIS thread a little while back when i first got my Mac Mini. Pretty much any MiniDV camcorder will do just fine. It all depends on the features you want. Don't get a DVD based camcorder. They are aweful for editing. The Mac will will pretty much do all the work for you. Hope this helps.
 
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I have a JVC camcorder I picked up for about 300 bucks and iMovie picks it up fine. Made some pretty nice videos for family, as long as it has firewire iMovie will be able to control it and record the clips fine.
 
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Princesa

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Canon MiniDV ZR600

My play camera is a little Canon MiniDV ZR600,
No specific reason why I went with it other then
it was on sale, and the battery is compatible with
the charger for my Canon Digital Rebel XT. It is
easy to use, I've put about 80 hours on it and have
had no trouble capturing footage, or with the quality.

I had a chuckle over the widescreen feature which allows
you to switch from 4:3 to 16:9.

So far no complaints for the amount it cost.
 
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Princesa said:
I had a chuckle over the widescreen feature which allows
you to switch from 4:3 to 16:9.
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Can you tell us why you chuckled? I'm assuming the 16:9 isn't much good.
 
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I've had good success with Sony consumer mini-dv cameras. My DCR-TRV19 is about three years old and I've probably gone through 20 mini DV tapes on it in that amount of time, Including pyrotechnic footage, which it held up to great.
 

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