I`m brand new to this so please help me. I have not a clue as what to buy,I am wanting to keep it $500.00 or less, what are my best options, this is for family use only .
Despite the convenience of hard drive and miniDVD camcorders, I would stick to the miniDV tape camcorders. You will need to capture via firewire, and that cable doesn't come with the camcorder. You can pick up a good one at Best Buy or other stores like BB. I have a Sony DCR-HC96 and really like it.
I guess that you're going to get smacked again. And,since this site is in English, you need to brush up on it, a little, if you're going to spam the site.
What is this ? Everyone wants to sell milo32000 a camcorder ? And Grampa BW is the only one offering good advice ? Shame
It seams that the HD is what i`l leaning toward, now how much trouble is it tranfering it to the computer ? Any special software, wires or whatever ? Sorry I`m asking dumb questions , but I`m brand new to this ! I really want to do this right the first time. Thanks, you guys are great, Milo
If you mean hard drive, and not High Definition, then there is nothing special that you will need to dump the video onto your computer. You will use the USB cable, that comes with the video camera, and your computer will pick it up as another hard drive, and you simply copy the files, to a folder on your hard drive, just like you would copy files from one location, to another, on your computer. If you are talking High Definition, that is a different animal. You will need software that can handle Hi-Def, a Blu-Ray burner, a Blu-Ray/DVD player, and a Hi-Def television.
