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Old 23-12-2007, 11:45 AM   #1
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What Camcorder for interview's?

What camcorder would be best for filming an interview situation, where there will be either just myself and perhaps one other person? I want a HDD camcorder because of the convenience, even though I am aware I will sacrifice a little on quality.

I will have perhaps a greenscreen backdrop for a chromakey effect or maybe just white. The setup will be home based, but with some decent lighting (softbox etc.).

I am looking at the Canon HG10. Any good for this? It needs to be reasonable quality because I will be selling the end product on eBay.

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Re: What Camcorder for interview's?

HG10 should work fine for this.
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Re: What Camcorder for interview's?

One thing to bear in mind is the audio quality obviously. I expect you have already thought about this but if not, I would suggest a camcorder which has a mic input and to use an external mic as I'm sure the camera will be a fair few feet away...unless of course you are going to be recording the audio and mixing this in at a later date, lipsyncing etc.

Internal mics on camcorders are usually good enough but obviously if you are going to be selling the material, an external stereo mic would be the way to go. I have a Rode VideoMic which I picked up for around £100 which has a standard 3.5 jack which could obviously be used for other things other than for the camcorder.

Just something to think about
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Re: What Camcorder for interview's?

I agree, The HG10 does have an external mic input.
I also have the Rode Videomic and it is excellent. For interviews you may want to also consider a lavalier mic.
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