Thursday, February 13, 2014

camcorder with external mic jack?




Biff Smorn


Anyone know of a camcorder with flash memory (internal or external) that has an external mic jack in the under $200 price range?


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

Consumer level HD camcorders 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, 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 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. No event I have ever been to is that short. Either take multiple camcorders or pack up with out getting the end of the event on video.

With a MiniDV tape camcorder, record 60 or 90 minutes ( camcorder settings), 90 seconds or less to change a tape and record for 60 or 90 more and repeat till you run out of tapes.

You can get a Canon ZR960 for $250. It is a MiniDV tape camcorder, has a Mic jack. You will need a firewire (IEEE1394) card ($25 to 30) for the computer and a firewire cable (less than 10) to be able to transfer video to your computer. To say this is not HD, think about this. It would cost in excess of $3500 to get a HD camcorder that could equal the video Quality of a $250 Canon MiniDV tape camcorder.

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

any 1080p camcorders with external mic?




David


Does anyone know of any 1080p HD camcorders with an external microphone port?

price range no higher than about 500 or 600

no mini-dv please
if there aren't any 1080p are there 720p?

please give links



Answer
I would suggest Canon VIXIA HF200 HD Flash Memory Camcorder with 15x Optical Zoom.1920 x 1080 Full HD recording; 24p Cinema Mode, 30p Progressive Mode.You can also attach an external microphone through the 3.5mm microphone terminal
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OI2Z2I?ie=UTF8&tag=computer0bd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001OI2Z2I




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