What will I need
 

Nothing is really going on so Im going to ask. What type of video camera do I need to post up videos.

sony's are the best bang for the buck imo

Get a old DV (tape) camera. They are the easiest to edit and upload. You can get a decent one for under 200 dollars.

Stay away from the mini dvd and hard drive cameras if you want to be able to edit the videos and upload them to the net.

i agree, but the hard drive's are nice imo. mini dvd's suck.

sony has the best night vision until you pay big bucks. and the mini dv will be great for editing and uploading and they keep getting cheaper.

I have a sony mini dvd & chris has a sony hard drive camera. Both suck at night. If you are zoomed in at any distance it is very hard to focus.

I have been thinking about picking up an old mini dv with 48x optical zoom. I get tired of leaping through hoops just to edit my own movies because they are filmed on DVD.

I think thats what I have. It sucks though. It doesnt have steady shot. I didnt know when I got it. Ive had it for a while. Just dont use it mutch because everything looks shaky. How do you get it on the computer?

If it's dv it should have a firewire port.

I love my HDD cam except for at night.

How hard is to edit the movies Chris. I know when I used your camera I had to 1st convert the files. And some of the converters left the files unusable. So after 3 or 4 different tries I finally got it to work.

which sony is it?


both of my sony handicam's are good at night, not high end canon quality but good night vision.

It has a little tape that looks like a cassette for a radio. I got it because it was cheap and the zoom on my old one quit.

I dont know I dont have any editing software to try to edit with.


I dont recall but it records 40 hrs. i bought it about a year ago before I went to hawaii

if you have xp or vista you have movie maker built in, that's all i ever use.

give me the model # wade, and I'll let you know.

i think i know which one it is, i didn't think the night vision was any different but i guess they might have changed it.

Movie maker sucks!

Ive bugged Randy before for a good editor with no luck.

http://carolinahorsepower.com/Video/...risvsFrank.wmv

here is a good example of the focus problems. There are some that are much worse, They were so bad that I just deleted them.

Cant find the book. The # on the side is ccd-trv138 ntsc.

I've seen randy use movie maker a few times. There isn't anything wrong with it especially when it's free. I have used others, but mm is the simplest to use.

Was that my camera?

I think its b/c the camera see something infront of the main scene and trys to focus tor that.

i've used movie maker many times, but you gotta know how to stretch its few uses. vegas is pretty decent but kinda hard to get used to.

Wade that's a hi8 camera not a dv. You could get a video capture card to upload the video off of that camera.

Chris I think that was your camera.

I wouldnt mind getting another one. Would just like to know whats the easiest to use for putting it on the computer. I dont care about fancy crap. I just want it easy to use and for it to look decent. The pic not the camera. what does dv mean?

DV= Digital Video.

Look up the canon zr950, it's the one I was looking at buying.

Will do. Thanks

make sure you read some reviews on it. Some people are saying it does poor in low light. Also make sure you have a computer with firewire, before buying a dv camera.

We just got a new dell with vista. I sure hope it does. I loved the old sony I had. wish I could get it fixed. It does take the same tapes as the new one.

I have a Jvc model DV something or rather. Takes pretty good video. Only thing with night shots is that it pulls in little light and makes it bright. Not the green nightvision that I wanted though. But it does the job. Records what I need at night in normal mode just fine. I paid around $400 or something for it. I think. Not really sure.