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Unread 27-07-2008, 01:52
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Re: Video Equipment

I have a cannon HV20 and like it quite a bit. I did a bunch of research before I bought and decided that an HD camera was the way to go now a days, since they are only a couple hundred more than SD cams and you can always decrease your video quality but never go up.

I think the biggest point is to decide what your final output will be. If you are going to be shooting mainly for the web many cameras are optimized for that. If you are thinking of making team dvd's and/or editing check the format that the camcorder records in before you buy. Some of the modern cameras actually compress the video on the fly and it makes it difficult to do editing. AVHD is one of those compressed formats.
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