Hi all,
Recently my son has been having fun making lego animations and other videos with his pc and webcam and uploading them to Youtube. Anyway, he has now decided that he would like a camcorder for Christmas and I have therefore been doing some research but to be honest, do not feel that I am getting very far. I did look at the Canon FS100 which always appears to do well in reviews but even with the current Canon cashback offer this would still be £200.- and my son feels that it is too expensive and he would therefore be afraid to use it which would of course defeat the whole point.
So the criteria are :
(1) Must be within the budget of £150, (any more and I might as well just go for the Canon anyway and pretend it was on offer or something).
(2) Must be flash memory type.
(3) Must record in widescreen format.
(4) The recorded footage must be of reasonable quality, although I appreciate that at this price level it is not going to be comparable to bluray, (just as long as it offers a noticeable improvement over the quality and resolution of a webcam then he will be happy).
(5) The recorded footage must be in a file format that can be easily handled in common applications such as Windows Movie Maker / Nero and must also be suitable for uploading to Youtube.
I did spot the Praktica DVC 5.1 HD which looks good on paper and receives good reviews but I am not sure about the "MOV" (Quicktime) file format, I think editing this without first converting it could be a problem ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance