I'm in the market for a new video cam, but have no idea where to begin. Any suggestions on brand or format or whatever?
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I have the HDR-SR12. I can't recommend the sony HD hard disk cams enough, ESPECIALLY if you have a mac with the latest iMovie. I will give you an example. We went out yesterday to do a test with ballast and removing our swim deck. I came home and had about 20 minutes of clips on the disk. If you are used to tape, this is completely different. Every time you start record and stop, it just makes a FILE on your camera. You can watch from your cam, even delete just one file before you get home. Plus, this thing takes great stills.
Now, I get home and the new iMovie recognizes the new sony AVCHD format. So I just start iMovie and connect the camera to my computer. This camera came with a base station so I just pop in and turn on and iMovie recognizes it. iMovie brings up a dialog to either import all or you can select by icons for each file, and even preview before you import. I just hit import all. It takes a couple of minutes. You have a bin now of your footage, which you just roll your mouse over to scrub the clips and see them, select portions and drop in a new project. Drop a song behind them, and add a title and some transitions. I made this video in 15 mins from the time I started importing from camera. Then I click "Publish to MobileMe Gallery". Or I could publish to youtube from within iMovie. I just select what sizes I want on mobile me, and it automatically sizes and uploads to my gallery. Done.
I own the entire Final Cut Studio and also do professional video editing and have for years, but nothing beats the above setup for just creating great personal memories and publishing for family and friends to see. Here are some examples with the HDR-SR12 and iMovie.
http://gallery.me.com/ragboy/100384
http://gallery.me.com/ragboy/100353
http://gallery.me.com/ragboy/100330
http://gallery.me.com/ragboy/100316
Here is with my previous camera, still great, still sony hd cam, but first gen hdr-sr1
http://gallery.me.com/ragboy/100298
These are stills that were taken with the SR12. The cool thing about these stills, is they were taken WHILE video taping. This is why I upgraded, you can only do 2 or 3 while taping with the SR1, you can do as many as you have space for on the SR12.
http://gallery.me.com/ragboy#100361&...lack&view=gridhttp://wake9.com/
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I purchased the Sony SR11 before summer. It is the same camera ragboy has, except it has a smaller hard drive (60GB). It is $100 - $200 cheaper and I don't think I will ever fill the hard drive, I think we figured it out that it will record 5 hours at full HD 1080.
$798 with free shipping and sales tax only in NJ.
http://www.butterflyphoto.com/prodinfo.phtml?id=316
http://www.abesofmaine.com/item.do?i...1lt345&GSCID=4Mike Allen, Tigé owner since 1997
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If you have a pc, I would recommend one of the adobe premiere products that support AVCHD. It will work well. iMovie is really sharp though, and this is also its weakness, because it is so limited. You can't do much. But for throwing a few clips up with music behind, couple titles, couple simple transitions, there is nothing better. The extra stuff is nice, but it just takes more of your time.http://wake9.com/
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X-2 on what Ragboy said. I have the HDR-SR10 and a Mac. I couldn't be more happy with it. It is easy to use and has great quality. Also on a side note. I plugged the camera into my Dad's 1080i Flat panel TV using the composite video cable provide with camera. I was showing him the wakeboarding footage I had recorded that day. I was blown away. I felt like you were in the boat. You could see everything so clearly. The great thing about the MAC is when I burned it to a DVD I didn't lose any of that quality.How can I be racist when all of my assault rifles are black?
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