The brand new "Canon PowerShot SX40 HS" vs "Canon EOS DSLR Rebel XS", and the "Canon EOS DSLR Rebel T3"?

Whale Whis

Seeing as the Canon PowerShot SX40 HS is brand spanking new. I know that not many carry this camera, but I'm just curious. Only because I really don't know if the Canon DSLR camera's(that I put in the question) have had a predecessor in the past couple of years or very recently.

Now I know it was probably a stupid question, but I know that the Canon PowerShot SX40 HS stands on the same grounds of the new PowerShot S100, and the PowerShot G12. The PowerShot S95 had received impressive reviews since its release, and the PowerShot S100 just surpasses it of course.

I've searched reviews competing against both the EOS DSLR Rebel XS, and EOS DSLR Rebel T3 from the PowerShot SX40 HS. And they say that it beats them both, but I really can't tell from those sites. This is also a price matter, because the PowerShot SX40 HS is only $429.99. While the Rebel XS is $549.99, and the Rebel T3 is $599.99.

Now what differs the two DSLR camera's from the new PowerShot SX40 HS, because I wan't to know if it's still worth getting either. If Canon has rumors of a predecessor for the Rebel XS, and the Rebel T3 camera's. That would be great to know. Please help me with my final suggestion before I purchase a new camera.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Rebel#Digital_cameras and scroll all the way down, there's a timeline for the rebel series.

A DSLR has a far, far bigger sensor than any compact. This generally means less, noise, more detail, more dynamic range and higher light sensitivity.

A 549 camera comes with a single lens that has only a relatively small zoom range. It also requires skill to make it perform.. A good compact, and canon's S and SX series tends to be very good, it designed to be used by a relatively unskilled user.

It all depends what you want.. if you want to take photography as a hobby seriously then the rebel is the way to go. If not then get a compact.

Best rendering settings for Canon T2i ?

Nat

I have a cannon t2i and shoot short films in 24fps 1080p and when I have slow motion scenes I shoot in 30fps so in my timeline I have a little bit of mixture but 80 percent is 24fp I want to get that film look in my videos but I have been noticing my videos looking blurry in movements and do not know why I use Sony Vegas so what is the best render setting for canon t2i to keep good quality as well as no blurry scenes.. also do i pick 24fps or 23.900(ivtc film) what is the difference? help me with the best setting..
This Jim guy get th fuck off my page man... I know it doesn't film you ignorant ass... I meant film as in cinematic look. Tv is shot in 30fps and film as in movies is 24fps. And second I do you manual focus dick head. I meant the scenes are blurry ghost like when fast motions are being made. When watching the raw footage it appears sharp and clean but when I render it through Sony Vegas fast scenes appear ghost like. So please put your glasses on you fuckin geezer and and goo take some viagra fuck face

Answer
Two things that are really obvious. One you know nothing about operating a dslr in video and two you can't shoot film with this camera or hadn't you noticed. This camera doesn't use film it shoots video. If you're term ignorant I suggest, if you're going to talk about digital cameras that you at least have some idea of what you're talking about.

My second issue with your question is have you ever tried manual focus with this camera, or is that beyond you. Blurry scenes - I suppose you think that's the camera's fault - well think again. You really don't get it do you. There are no best settings. If you know nothing about operating this camera then I'd suggest you do some serious reading and perhaps take a course in this kind of camera.

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Video camera, externail audio help?

Q. I have this video camera and I don't see were to plug in a external microphone for better audio. Does my camera even have an externail mike input?

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/digital_cameras/powershot_sx40_hs

My camera has an HDMI input, A/V OUT DIGITAL input.
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/digital_cameras/powershot_sx40_hs

Answer
So what it does not have a MIC jack. Just get yourself a Digital Audio Recorder (DAR) and record you Audio with this separate device, then transfer both Audio and Video to a Hard Drive in your Computer and open a Video Editing Program, put both files on the Timeline and make your Video.

Your DAR can range from something like H4N, small portable recorder, to a cell phone that has recording function available or a laptop, running Audacity, an audio editing and recording program that is a free download.

Of course there will Synchronization issues doing this, but watch this and you will get an issue of what you need to when shooting your Video to make things easier when editing the video - http://youtu.be/5aeuy6MrbHY

If your using a Video Editing Program that does not show your Audio like that, upgrade - http://asimplelife.ca/nle.html

How come the videos I take on my digital camera don't work in Windows Movie Maker?

Q. It only lets me put it into the audio/music timeline. I want the video! My old camera didn't have this problem. How do I fix it!?

Answer
what's the format of the video? my camera, canon ixus 100 is, makes mov videos, so i'd convert it to avi first (or any other formats that windows movie maker support). to convert, i use any video converter (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/).

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The brand new "Canon PowerShot SX40 HS" vs "Canon EOS DSLR Rebel XS", and the "Canon EOS DSLR Rebel T3"?

Whale Whis

Seeing as the Canon PowerShot SX40 HS is brand spanking new. I know that not many carry this camera, but I'm just curious. Only because I really don't know if the Canon DSLR camera's(that I put in the question) have had a predecessor in the past couple of years or very recently.

Now I know it was probably a stupid question, but I know that the Canon PowerShot SX40 HS stands on the same grounds of the new PowerShot S100, and the PowerShot G12. The PowerShot S95 had received impressive reviews since its release, and the PowerShot S100 just surpasses it of course.

I've searched reviews competing against both the EOS DSLR Rebel XS, and EOS DSLR Rebel T3 from the PowerShot SX40 HS. And they say that it beats them both, but I really can't tell from those sites. This is also a price matter, because the PowerShot SX40 HS is only $429.99. While the Rebel XS is $549.99, and the Rebel T3 is $599.99.

Now what differs the two DSLR camera's from the new PowerShot SX40 HS, because I wan't to know if it's still worth getting either. If Canon has rumors of a predecessor for the Rebel XS, and the Rebel T3 camera's. That would be great to know. Please help me with my final suggestion before I purchase a new camera.

Answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Rebel#Digital_cameras and scroll all the way down, there's a timeline for the rebel series.

A DSLR has a far, far bigger sensor than any compact. This generally means less, noise, more detail, more dynamic range and higher light sensitivity.

A 549 camera comes with a single lens that has only a relatively small zoom range. It also requires skill to make it perform.. A good compact, and canon's S and SX series tends to be very good, it designed to be used by a relatively unskilled user.

It all depends what you want.. if you want to take photography as a hobby seriously then the rebel is the way to go. If not then get a compact.

Best rendering settings for Canon T2i ?

Nat

I have a cannon t2i and shoot short films in 24fps 1080p and when I have slow motion scenes I shoot in 30fps so in my timeline I have a little bit of mixture but 80 percent is 24fp I want to get that film look in my videos but I have been noticing my videos looking blurry in movements and do not know why I use Sony Vegas so what is the best render setting for canon t2i to keep good quality as well as no blurry scenes.. also do i pick 24fps or 23.900(ivtc film) what is the difference? help me with the best setting..
This Jim guy get th fuck off my page man... I know it doesn't film you ignorant ass... I meant film as in cinematic look. Tv is shot in 30fps and film as in movies is 24fps. And second I do you manual focus dick head. I meant the scenes are blurry ghost like when fast motions are being made. When watching the raw footage it appears sharp and clean but when I render it through Sony Vegas fast scenes appear ghost like. So please put your glasses on you fuckin geezer and and goo take some viagra fuck face

Answer
Two things that are really obvious. One you know nothing about operating a dslr in video and two you can't shoot film with this camera or hadn't you noticed. This camera doesn't use film it shoots video. If you're term ignorant I suggest, if you're going to talk about digital cameras that you at least have some idea of what you're talking about.

My second issue with your question is have you ever tried manual focus with this camera, or is that beyond you. Blurry scenes - I suppose you think that's the camera's fault - well think again. You really don't get it do you. There are no best settings. If you know nothing about operating this camera then I'd suggest you do some serious reading and perhaps take a course in this kind of camera.

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Windows Movie Maker will only play the audio of a video and wont go into the video part in the timeline?

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Ya Jew

Yeah whenever I put a video in WMM it just imports itself as an Audio file, but still says it's AVI a video file, it hasn't done this in the past just recently, turning off my computer or anything didn't help, any ideas on the problem?

Answer
This is from papajohn.org

Movie Maker - Importing AVI Files


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The AVI file extension is common. Some will import easily, and others will need an additional codec that is not automatically downloaded by Movie Maker from a Microsoft website. Here's an overview:

⢠There are 3 types of digital video... DV-AVI files with the AVI extension. Type 1 DV-AVI files created by MM2 have the image and sound info all wrapped together in a single stream of data. And two kinds of Type 2 files (Direct Show with no size limit, and Video for Windows with a 2 GB size limit) which split the data into two streams, one for the visual and one for the sound. Movie Maker 1 and 2 can import them all.

Digital camcorders record the image and sound info together, so the type 1 DV-AVI file is equivalent to the recording. In the process of capturing to a type 2 DV-AVI file, the image and sound data is split by the software. MM1 does this as it creates type 2 DV-AVI files (Direct Show ones not subject to a file size limit).

My mini-DV camcorder is set to record in 16-bit mode (2 channels - stereo) versus its default of 12-bit (4 channels - 2 sets of stereo tracks)... the captured type I DV-AVI file (the default of MM2) has a bit rate of 1024 kbps with a sample rate of 32 kHz, while the same file captured to a type II DV-AVI file (the default of MM1) has a bit rate of 1536 kbps with a sample rate of 48 kHz.

⢠MPEG1 and MPEG2 files often use extensions like MPG, but the newer MPEG4 files might use AVI, and there are many codecs used to create them, like Divx and Xvid codecs. So, if an AVI file doesn't cleanly import into Movie Maker 2, it's usually not a problem, just another codec challenge.

⢠And then there are the many other AVI files that are made as uncompressed ones, or compressed with a codec such as Indeo, Divx, Sorenson, Cinepak, Xvid, etc. One of my laptops has 43 video codecs installed, and many of them for various AVI files.

Motion JPEG files, such as those recorded by Canon's TX1 hard drive camcorder and their PowerShot cameras (such as my model SD750), also have AVI extensions. Movie Maker should be able to use them without downloading another codec.

If you don't know which compression codec was used to create your AVI file, check it with GSpot. That info is vital if you need help with importing issues. GSpot version 2.70a or higher works in both XP and Vista...


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I want to interview my parents and need to know which camcorder to buy!?

Lisa Ulmer

Hi, my parents are in their late eightys and I want to interview them about their life for my siblings and I to each have a DVD of them. They will be sitting in a recliner inside their home. I will be interviewing them every week over the next year as I have a lot of questions to ask them. I know absolutely nothing about camcorders, sd cards and microphones attached or external jacks. I have searched tirelessly for an answer and have not succeeded.
Please, can someone tell me exactly what I need to interview my parents for hours at a time and to make sure they are heard once I make the DVD, which will be another exhaustive search as I have no idea how to do this either.
Once I record on this "SD" card can I download the video then erase the video from the card and use it again. Do I need a 32 or 64.
My budget is around $200 so I need something simple to use but will also be good for just setting on a table and aiming it at them and being able to hear them. Sorry for repeating myself so much.

Answer
HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras interpolate the video, which means of every 25 frames of video, 4 or 5 frames are taken by the lens assembly; the other frames in between these are filled in by the camcorder inner circuitry, thus giving you not true video. It looks like this -one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, from front to back of the video. Near impossible to edit, even when you have the Multi port processor computer with the big 1GB Graphics card and a Sound card that is required to edit, view, watch and work with the files these camcorders produce.

DSLR Cameras, all Makes, all Models, all have the same problem when video taping some long videos, all overheat at the 13 to 18 minute mark, depending on the Make and Model. This is unavoidable, it all has to with the fact, video is an afterthought in DSLR camera production.

Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording Consumer Level HD Camcorder and DSLR Cameras, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders and DSLR Cameras or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.

MiniDV is currently the most popular format for consumer digital camcorders. MiniDV camcorders are typically more affordable than their HDD and DVD counterparts. Each MiniDV tape will typically hold an hour of footage at normal recording speed and quality. MiniDV tapes are available for purchase at not only electronic and camera stores, but also at drugs stores and grocery stores, making them easy to find while your on vacation. There are literally hundreds of MiniDV camcorders available; both in standard and high-definition. And add the fact that to get a HD camcorder that could produce better video quality footage, one would have to spend in excess of $3500 for that camcorder that could produce higher quality video

http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part1_camcorder_choices.htm

http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part2_connect_camcorder.htm

http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/camcorders/consumer_camcorders/vixia_hv40#Overview

Then you will need a Video Editing Program that make a DVD right from the Timeline, Like Pinnacle Studio 14 HD Ultimate collections - http://asimplelife.ca/nle.html can do. You can put all the Videos on a Local Hard Drive in your Computer, then open the PS Program, put the videos on the Timeline in the order you want, then press the Make Movie Key, then it can write a DVD. You can put a menu. just like a Movie you rent with Play button, chapters, outtakes and all that. That program has the ability to write a DVD, just like the ones you rent from a Video Rental store, operating in the exact same way.

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What prgram do I use to convert mini DV to my computer?

canon digital camera timeline image

25meters

I have a canon digital video camcorder ntsc ZR90 if that helps.
also im using a fire wire and on a pc.
i have no idea what to do so please be simplistic!
Thanks =)

Answer
You can use Windows Movie Maker, not the best program but it came free on your PC if you have XP or Vista. Open WMM and turn your camera on and put it playback and then capture your video with WMM. Add all your videos to the timeline and add menus and music, whatever. WMM has a HELP section whee you can learn all about it.

My advice is to get some good editing software. I use Pinnacle studio11 ultimate but there are many comparable softwares out there.

How much did a 1 megapixel digital camera cost in 2002?

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What was the average cost?

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I don't have any kind of real timeline other than my memory, but I believe the pixels were coming up by 2002. In the late 90s, the Sony Mavica range of digital cameras were about all there was available. They wrote to a floppy disc, and resolution was 1.5 megapixels if I remember correctly. Cost was near $1000. Photo quality was horrid, but it was digital, and had uses for web content and for putting small photos into Word documents.

Then as the new century rolled around, more point and shoot cameras started being produced. My first digital was a Nikon 990, 3.3 MP, which I got in early 2001. Cost was over $900 by the time I got a memory card and card reader. By the way, memory cards were VERY expensive at that time. A 2 gig CF card was an almost unheard of amount of storage, and it cost over $400. Most cards were only 256 MB or 512 MB. The Nikon 900 series of cameras were considered top of the line at the time, and even now can still give some decent photos. Most all cameras during this time frame were in the 2 MP area, so the 3.3 MP of the Nikon seemed really amazing.

DSLRs were almost non-existent. Canon was one of the first to produce a consumer DSLR, (it might have even been THE first). Anyway, the camera was the D30, and was 3 megapixels. I believe the price was over $5000 for the body. The D60 6 MP DSLR followed that, which was my first DSLR, which I still have and use. It became almost a cult item and was very hard to obtain. I had to pay almost $2500 for mine in 2002.

As each year has passed, cameras have become more prolific, much cheaper, and in most cases better.

Hope that is of some help to you.

steve

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How much did a 1 megapixel digital camera cost in 2002?

canon digital camera timeline image

time.mecha

What was the average cost?

Answer
I don't have any kind of real timeline other than my memory, but I believe the pixels were coming up by 2002. In the late 90s, the Sony Mavica range of digital cameras were about all there was available. They wrote to a floppy disc, and resolution was 1.5 megapixels if I remember correctly. Cost was near $1000. Photo quality was horrid, but it was digital, and had uses for web content and for putting small photos into Word documents.

Then as the new century rolled around, more point and shoot cameras started being produced. My first digital was a Nikon 990, 3.3 MP, which I got in early 2001. Cost was over $900 by the time I got a memory card and card reader. By the way, memory cards were VERY expensive at that time. A 2 gig CF card was an almost unheard of amount of storage, and it cost over $400. Most cards were only 256 MB or 512 MB. The Nikon 900 series of cameras were considered top of the line at the time, and even now can still give some decent photos. Most all cameras during this time frame were in the 2 MP area, so the 3.3 MP of the Nikon seemed really amazing.

DSLRs were almost non-existent. Canon was one of the first to produce a consumer DSLR, (it might have even been THE first). Anyway, the camera was the D30, and was 3 megapixels. I believe the price was over $5000 for the body. The D60 6 MP DSLR followed that, which was my first DSLR, which I still have and use. It became almost a cult item and was very hard to obtain. I had to pay almost $2500 for mine in 2002.

As each year has passed, cameras have become more prolific, much cheaper, and in most cases better.

Hope that is of some help to you.

steve

how do i upload videos from my Sony DCRSR57E Handycam Camcorder to PC or Mac ?

Q. Hi I brought a Sony DCRSR57E Handycam Camcorder from amazon about 4 months ago and it came with no lead or anything to transfer videos. Now I really need to upload on either Windows PC or Mac I have both so please help, thank you !

Answer
If you check the manual
http://pdf.crse.com/manuals/4124309111.pdf
refer to page 5 - "Supplied items". USB cable is one of them. Item B. The other is the AV cable to connect to a TV to watch playback of captured video.

This is the same USB cable that is used by lots of consumer grade "personal electronics" like cell phones, MP3 or other multimedia players... Mini-USB on one side connects to the camcorder's USB port (see page 23 for location on the camcorder) and the other is a "normal" sized USB connector for the computer. I have used the USB cable that came with my BlackBerry to transfer media files from Sony camcorders and Apple iPods and Canon digital still cameras... to my Macs and HP computers.

Generally, when you put the camcorder in Play mode (be sure to plug the camcorder to power mains, too), the hard drive will mount like any other USB-connected external mass storage device.

The Sony standard def hard drive (and flash memory) camcorders record to a MPG file type - many times, the computer's operating system and video editor cannot deal with these files directly. This may not be the easiest way, but it is the most consistent and flexible...

Download and install HandBrake
http://handbrake.fr/
Copy the MPG files to the computer.
Launch HandBrake and transcode the MPG files to something the video editor can deal with. Lower compression is better - but the files will be large.
Windows Movie Maker likes WMV files and Macintosh iMovie likes MOV and MP4 files (among others).
When the transcoding is done, Quit HandBrake and launch the video editor.
Drag the transcoded files to the capture area or timeline (or "clips" pane)... edit. Save.
Export or Save As whatever final video file type and compression you want (and the video editor is capable of providing).

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How much did a 1 megapixel digital camera cost in 2002?

canon digital camera timeline image

time.mecha

What was the average cost?

Answer
I don't have any kind of real timeline other than my memory, but I believe the pixels were coming up by 2002. In the late 90s, the Sony Mavica range of digital cameras were about all there was available. They wrote to a floppy disc, and resolution was 1.5 megapixels if I remember correctly. Cost was near $1000. Photo quality was horrid, but it was digital, and had uses for web content and for putting small photos into Word documents.

Then as the new century rolled around, more point and shoot cameras started being produced. My first digital was a Nikon 990, 3.3 MP, which I got in early 2001. Cost was over $900 by the time I got a memory card and card reader. By the way, memory cards were VERY expensive at that time. A 2 gig CF card was an almost unheard of amount of storage, and it cost over $400. Most cards were only 256 MB or 512 MB. The Nikon 900 series of cameras were considered top of the line at the time, and even now can still give some decent photos. Most all cameras during this time frame were in the 2 MP area, so the 3.3 MP of the Nikon seemed really amazing.

DSLRs were almost non-existent. Canon was one of the first to produce a consumer DSLR, (it might have even been THE first). Anyway, the camera was the D30, and was 3 megapixels. I believe the price was over $5000 for the body. The D60 6 MP DSLR followed that, which was my first DSLR, which I still have and use. It became almost a cult item and was very hard to obtain. I had to pay almost $2500 for mine in 2002.

As each year has passed, cameras have become more prolific, much cheaper, and in most cases better.

Hope that is of some help to you.

steve

how do i upload videos from my Sony DCRSR57E Handycam Camcorder to PC or Mac ?

Q. Hi I brought a Sony DCRSR57E Handycam Camcorder from amazon about 4 months ago and it came with no lead or anything to transfer videos. Now I really need to upload on either Windows PC or Mac I have both so please help, thank you !

Answer
If you check the manual
http://pdf.crse.com/manuals/4124309111.pdf
refer to page 5 - "Supplied items". USB cable is one of them. Item B. The other is the AV cable to connect to a TV to watch playback of captured video.

This is the same USB cable that is used by lots of consumer grade "personal electronics" like cell phones, MP3 or other multimedia players... Mini-USB on one side connects to the camcorder's USB port (see page 23 for location on the camcorder) and the other is a "normal" sized USB connector for the computer. I have used the USB cable that came with my BlackBerry to transfer media files from Sony camcorders and Apple iPods and Canon digital still cameras... to my Macs and HP computers.

Generally, when you put the camcorder in Play mode (be sure to plug the camcorder to power mains, too), the hard drive will mount like any other USB-connected external mass storage device.

The Sony standard def hard drive (and flash memory) camcorders record to a MPG file type - many times, the computer's operating system and video editor cannot deal with these files directly. This may not be the easiest way, but it is the most consistent and flexible...

Download and install HandBrake
http://handbrake.fr/
Copy the MPG files to the computer.
Launch HandBrake and transcode the MPG files to something the video editor can deal with. Lower compression is better - but the files will be large.
Windows Movie Maker likes WMV files and Macintosh iMovie likes MOV and MP4 files (among others).
When the transcoding is done, Quit HandBrake and launch the video editor.
Drag the transcoded files to the capture area or timeline (or "clips" pane)... edit. Save.
Export or Save As whatever final video file type and compression you want (and the video editor is capable of providing).

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I want to interview my parents and need to know which camcorder to buy!?

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Lisa Ulmer

Hi, my parents are in their late eightys and I want to interview them about their life for my siblings and I to each have a DVD of them. They will be sitting in a recliner inside their home. I will be interviewing them every week over the next year as I have a lot of questions to ask them. I know absolutely nothing about camcorders, sd cards and microphones attached or external jacks. I have searched tirelessly for an answer and have not succeeded.
Please, can someone tell me exactly what I need to interview my parents for hours at a time and to make sure they are heard once I make the DVD, which will be another exhaustive search as I have no idea how to do this either.
Once I record on this "SD" card can I download the video then erase the video from the card and use it again. Do I need a 32 or 64.
My budget is around $200 so I need something simple to use but will also be good for just setting on a table and aiming it at them and being able to hear them. Sorry for repeating myself so much.

Answer
HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras interpolate the video, which means of every 25 frames of video, 4 or 5 frames are taken by the lens assembly; the other frames in between these are filled in by the camcorder inner circuitry, thus giving you not true video. It looks like this -one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, from front to back of the video. Near impossible to edit, even when you have the Multi port processor computer with the big 1GB Graphics card and a Sound card that is required to edit, view, watch and work with the files these camcorders produce.

DSLR Cameras, all Makes, all Models, all have the same problem when video taping some long videos, all overheat at the 13 to 18 minute mark, depending on the Make and Model. This is unavoidable, it all has to with the fact, video is an afterthought in DSLR camera production.

Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording Consumer Level HD Camcorder and DSLR Cameras, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders and DSLR Cameras or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.

MiniDV is currently the most popular format for consumer digital camcorders. MiniDV camcorders are typically more affordable than their HDD and DVD counterparts. Each MiniDV tape will typically hold an hour of footage at normal recording speed and quality. MiniDV tapes are available for purchase at not only electronic and camera stores, but also at drugs stores and grocery stores, making them easy to find while your on vacation. There are literally hundreds of MiniDV camcorders available; both in standard and high-definition. And add the fact that to get a HD camcorder that could produce better video quality footage, one would have to spend in excess of $3500 for that camcorder that could produce higher quality video

http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part1_camcorder_choices.htm

http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part2_connect_camcorder.htm

http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/camcorders/consumer_camcorders/vixia_hv40#Overview

Then you will need a Video Editing Program that make a DVD right from the Timeline, Like Pinnacle Studio 14 HD Ultimate collections - http://asimplelife.ca/nle.html can do. You can put all the Videos on a Local Hard Drive in your Computer, then open the PS Program, put the videos on the Timeline in the order you want, then press the Make Movie Key, then it can write a DVD. You can put a menu. just like a Movie you rent with Play button, chapters, outtakes and all that. That program has the ability to write a DVD, just like the ones you rent from a Video Rental store, operating in the exact same way.

My friends keep telling me NOT to get this sony cyber shot camera, are they right?

Curly

Its 14 mp and 20x optical thing
I liked it, but everyone keeps telling me to get a nikon or canon...are they right??

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Aunsoft Final Mate, a great and useful camcorder assistant software, has everything needed to directly capture/backup AVCHD (*.mts, *.m2ts), AVCHD Lite, AVCCAM, NXCAM, TOD, MOD recordings from Hard Disk Drive/SD Card Camcorders to PC, to import, edit and create spectacular movies on a timeline. It is also powerful enough to play/convert native 1080 60p/50p footages and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Powerful timeline-oriented editing features like split/trim video, splice clips, crop, do color correction, deinterlacing, replace audio, adjust volume, etc help you create satisfied film results. Merge/combine avchd (*.mts, *.m2ts), AVCHD Lite, TOD into only one file without any re-encoding or recompression.

Export/convert edited camcorder video to other editors (Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, WMM, Pinnacle Studio, etc), media devices (iPad, iPhone4, droid x, nokia n8, galaxy s, hdtv, projector, etc), or common formats (mov, avi, wmv, mp4, mpg, mpeg-2, etc) with the high quality and least amount of clicks. Ultra extreme performance with support for NVIDIA® CUDATM while encoding.

http://www.aunsoft.com/final-mate

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I want to interview my parents and need to know which camcorder to buy!?

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Lisa Ulmer

Hi, my parents are in their late eightys and I want to interview them about their life for my siblings and I to each have a DVD of them. They will be sitting in a recliner inside their home. I will be interviewing them every week over the next year as I have a lot of questions to ask them. I know absolutely nothing about camcorders, sd cards and microphones attached or external jacks. I have searched tirelessly for an answer and have not succeeded.
Please, can someone tell me exactly what I need to interview my parents for hours at a time and to make sure they are heard once I make the DVD, which will be another exhaustive search as I have no idea how to do this either.
Once I record on this "SD" card can I download the video then erase the video from the card and use it again. Do I need a 32 or 64.
My budget is around $200 so I need something simple to use but will also be good for just setting on a table and aiming it at them and being able to hear them. Sorry for repeating myself so much.

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HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras interpolate the video, which means of every 25 frames of video, 4 or 5 frames are taken by the lens assembly; the other frames in between these are filled in by the camcorder inner circuitry, thus giving you not true video. It looks like this -one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, one frame from the lens assembly, 7or 8 from the electronic circuitry, from front to back of the video. Near impossible to edit, even when you have the Multi port processor computer with the big 1GB Graphics card and a Sound card that is required to edit, view, watch and work with the files these camcorders produce.

DSLR Cameras, all Makes, all Models, all have the same problem when video taping some long videos, all overheat at the 13 to 18 minute mark, depending on the Make and Model. This is unavoidable, it all has to with the fact, video is an afterthought in DSLR camera production.

Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras have 4 problems. 1) Blurry, fuzzy, out of focus areas closely around people in videos taken by consumer level HD camcorders. 2) Any movement, even a wave or lifting an arm, while in front of a recording Consumer Level HD Camcorder and DSLR Cameras, results in screen ghosts and artifacts being left on the video track, following the movement. Makes for bad video, sports videos are unwatchable. 3) These Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras all have a habit of the transferred to computer files are something you need to convert, thus losing your HD quality, to work with your editing software. 4) Mandatory maximum record times - 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 minutes, 3 minutes â four different times advertised as maximum record time for some Consumer Level HD Camcorders and DSLR Cameras. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders and DSLR Cameras or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.

MiniDV is currently the most popular format for consumer digital camcorders. MiniDV camcorders are typically more affordable than their HDD and DVD counterparts. Each MiniDV tape will typically hold an hour of footage at normal recording speed and quality. MiniDV tapes are available for purchase at not only electronic and camera stores, but also at drugs stores and grocery stores, making them easy to find while your on vacation. There are literally hundreds of MiniDV camcorders available; both in standard and high-definition. And add the fact that to get a HD camcorder that could produce better video quality footage, one would have to spend in excess of $3500 for that camcorder that could produce higher quality video

http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part1_camcorder_choices.htm

http://simplevideoediting.com/learn/part2_connect_camcorder.htm

http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/camcorders/consumer_camcorders/vixia_hv40#Overview

Then you will need a Video Editing Program that make a DVD right from the Timeline, Like Pinnacle Studio 14 HD Ultimate collections - http://asimplelife.ca/nle.html can do. You can put all the Videos on a Local Hard Drive in your Computer, then open the PS Program, put the videos on the Timeline in the order you want, then press the Make Movie Key, then it can write a DVD. You can put a menu. just like a Movie you rent with Play button, chapters, outtakes and all that. That program has the ability to write a DVD, just like the ones you rent from a Video Rental store, operating in the exact same way.

My friends keep telling me NOT to get this sony cyber shot camera, are they right?

Curly

Its 14 mp and 20x optical thing
I liked it, but everyone keeps telling me to get a nikon or canon...are they right??

Answer
Aunsoft Final Mate, a great and useful camcorder assistant software, has everything needed to directly capture/backup AVCHD (*.mts, *.m2ts), AVCHD Lite, AVCCAM, NXCAM, TOD, MOD recordings from Hard Disk Drive/SD Card Camcorders to PC, to import, edit and create spectacular movies on a timeline. It is also powerful enough to play/convert native 1080 60p/50p footages and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Powerful timeline-oriented editing features like split/trim video, splice clips, crop, do color correction, deinterlacing, replace audio, adjust volume, etc help you create satisfied film results. Merge/combine avchd (*.mts, *.m2ts), AVCHD Lite, TOD into only one file without any re-encoding or recompression.

Export/convert edited camcorder video to other editors (Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, WMM, Pinnacle Studio, etc), media devices (iPad, iPhone4, droid x, nokia n8, galaxy s, hdtv, projector, etc), or common formats (mov, avi, wmv, mp4, mpg, mpeg-2, etc) with the high quality and least amount of clicks. Ultra extreme performance with support for NVIDIA® CUDATM while encoding.

http://www.aunsoft.com/final-mate

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How to make and edit video from digital camera?

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.-*oiChyuK

ok so we need to make a music video we used a canon digital camera,, the scenes had lots of cut so to complete it, i need to compile it up
its type is "quicktime movie"
i can play it and i downloaded quicktime coz it wont play in windows media player
it doesnt shows up when im gonna put in windows movie maker
do i need to convert it or somthin'

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First to clarify:
You used a Canon digital camera that happens to capture highly compressed video as a convenience and it saves to QuickTime format. You have copied the video files to your computer and you want to playback the video and edit it.

I hope I got it right...

To playback the mov files:
QuickTime - mov files - need the QuickTime player. Free to download and install and use:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

To edit the mov files in MovieMaker, they need to be in a format MovieMaker understands. Do this by converting them. I like StreamClip
http://www.squared5.com/
MovieMaker likes WMV files (among others).

After the files are converted, quit StreamClip and launch MovieMaker, drag the converted files to the MovieMaker "capture" area or timeline. Edit.

Good luck.

How do I transfer videotape from my video camera to my PC?

lomodus

I have a Canon ZR800 (NTSC) digital video camera that uses miniDV video cassettes. How do I copy the footage from the cassette to a PC or laptop?

My employer does this when I send the tapes to him but I would like to be able to do this first, before I send them out, for my own record keeping.

I am assuming there is some sort of cable I need to purchase with a USB connection on one end and "DV" connection on the other (there is a port marked DV on the camera), and some software I will need to get?

Thank you in advance.

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for record keeping purposes, DvD wud be fine. videos normally are in large files such that if these stay in ur laptop, its hard disk will get full just as early, moreso, virus scanning, defrag & other cirtical pc admin activities wud take far too long. DvD can also have titles for ID.
try this...

a miniDV vcam must be DV~Firewire400**-connected to pc to upload video thru video capture or video editing* application while vcam is ON PLAYBACK. Before cable purchase** check PC for DV port {VCAM@4pin=>firewireCABLE=>PC@4/ 6pin?}. If none, install firewire card: pci for pc or pcmcia / express card for laptop.
http://h71036.www7.hp.com/hho/cache/315100-0-0-225-121.html

for starters, free Windows Movie Maker* (Vista/wmm6 & XP/wmm2) provides simple & easy way to learn the ropes. Upgrade to intermediate or advanced video editing apps accdg. to need & skill level
http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

video editing process- Vista/wmm6
>>> open wmm- start/all programs/wmm->TASK pane
1. Import video stream** - editing software remotely controls vcam operations
2. Edit- drag/drop video files->timeline & enhance w/effects, transition, music & titles
3. Publish (render)- save Movie (OK for youTube), also, save Project.msmmw file
>>> Share=>auto-shifts to WindowsDvD authoring app->burn to DvD

Similarly: XP/wmm2- Capture/Edit/Finish- DvD authoring app, e.g.,DvD Flick or Nero
For details, visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

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