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Gear / Technical Help => Photo / Video Recording => Topic started by: ero3030 on October 08, 2009, 09:51:32 PM
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looking for a recorder for my daughter's basketball games. somthing good enough to send clips to colleges. somthing under 500$? under 1000$? looking for somthing easy to transfer. thanks, ed
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I'm sure you can get something for less than $500 that'll do the job. You pretty much don't have a choice anymore as almost everything is either harddrive or flash-drive based now. Tape-based cams are pretty much gone.
But that isn't a bad thing for you because you want something you can easily transfer and flash-drive cams are definitely easy to transfer.
What you really need to think about IMHO is how to get a good shot that really maximizes the quality of the video you're sending off to colleges ~ I think that will be much more important than the videocam you use to shoot the video.
I recommend getting a good mpeg editor to edit the video - check out Womble MPEG Editor - very easy to use and it doesn't re-encode the video.
And just to make it easy for the schools to which you'll be sending the video - I'd get a DVD authoring program that's easy to use so that when the school receives the DVD - they can just pop it in the player and check it out - and not have to figure out if it can only be played on the computer...what program you need to view the video file, etc. I recommend TMPGenc DVD Author for an authoring program.
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I'm pretty happy with my Canon Vixia HF10 and 2x HF11's. I bought them as refurbs from B&H Photo. If there wasn't a sticker on the outside of the box that said "refurbished", I wouldn't know the difference. I've seen some better deals on them recently (I think on deals2buy.com), but here is an HF10 for $499:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/used/539290/Canon_2573B001_VIXIA_HF_10_AVCHD_16GB.html
I think I paid $599 for the HF11.
--Michael
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thanks guys!! ed