I've been making movies for a while, and recently my Sony MiniDV camcorder broke. We sent it in at Best Buy at the low cost of 40 dollars only for them to tell us it would cost $400 to fix. That was a big NO. We had already planned on getting a new one before this mishap.
I've been really enthusiastic about getting a HD Camcorder. But I've run across some issues:
Apparently they only record in 3 major formats: DVD, Hard Drive, and Tape. DVD and Hard Drive are compressed while being recorded and can't be edited frame-by-frame. All that can be done to these is adding things before and after shots. The tape cameras could drop frames when the computer is capturing the HD video through the editing software, resulting in a need to recapture the footage until the results are perfect.
I may have some of this information wrong. I've been using very many different editing applications and know what to stick with.
First I got Pinnacle Studio 7, upgraded to 8 or 9 - and had some Hollywood FX pro thing. It didn't turn out too well to say the least. I then upgraded to Avid Liquid Pro. It was an okay program, but it couldn't use many of the formats I wanted to use and had constant errors. Finally I got the Adobe CS3 Production Premium. It's been working like a charm for me but I haven't really gotten a chance to do much with it since my video camera broke.
I think I should get a tape camera unless there is some other format that works better. Any suggestions? (I am a teen, but please take me seriously. I don't plan to make some dinky home movies.)
Thanks
Ethan
I've been really enthusiastic about getting a HD Camcorder. But I've run across some issues:
Apparently they only record in 3 major formats: DVD, Hard Drive, and Tape. DVD and Hard Drive are compressed while being recorded and can't be edited frame-by-frame. All that can be done to these is adding things before and after shots. The tape cameras could drop frames when the computer is capturing the HD video through the editing software, resulting in a need to recapture the footage until the results are perfect.
I may have some of this information wrong. I've been using very many different editing applications and know what to stick with.
First I got Pinnacle Studio 7, upgraded to 8 or 9 - and had some Hollywood FX pro thing. It didn't turn out too well to say the least. I then upgraded to Avid Liquid Pro. It was an okay program, but it couldn't use many of the formats I wanted to use and had constant errors. Finally I got the Adobe CS3 Production Premium. It's been working like a charm for me but I haven't really gotten a chance to do much with it since my video camera broke.
I think I should get a tape camera unless there is some other format that works better. Any suggestions? (I am a teen, but please take me seriously. I don't plan to make some dinky home movies.)
Thanks
Ethan