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Hi Everyone.
I am sure you all get sick to death of people asking the same old questions but I have had a brief search on the forum and cant initially see a post that answers my question. Any advice that someone could off would be warmly welcomed! I apologise for the noob questions in advance but i am well....noobish.
I am in the market for a camcorder with a budget of approximately £400. Its uses will be varied primarily the usual family stuff, holidays etc but there is a chance that I will also be connecting it to a smaller cam fixed to my Motorbike\helmet for track days etc. (yet to be purchased).
I will be looking to do a fair ammount of edditing using Adobe Elements or similar (Nero 7 any good?) and would be looking to get most of the content over to my PC and then DVD as opposed to watching straight from the camera.
My collegue has advised to go with HDD as opposed to MiniDV as it will be far easier to get the data over to my PC and you dont lose any quality when you convert. Is that the case? If so would 400 quid get a decent HDD model? I dont want to go for bottom of the range. What kind of picture quality could I expect full screen once I have copied the data across to my PC then burnt to DVD?
Also one last thing, its not for a chrimbo pressie (well it is but to myself ) so is it worth waiting until after X-mas before I buy?
If anyone could give me any recomendations or advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Phil
I am sure you all get sick to death of people asking the same old questions but I have had a brief search on the forum and cant initially see a post that answers my question. Any advice that someone could off would be warmly welcomed! I apologise for the noob questions in advance but i am well....noobish.
I am in the market for a camcorder with a budget of approximately £400. Its uses will be varied primarily the usual family stuff, holidays etc but there is a chance that I will also be connecting it to a smaller cam fixed to my Motorbike\helmet for track days etc. (yet to be purchased).
I will be looking to do a fair ammount of edditing using Adobe Elements or similar (Nero 7 any good?) and would be looking to get most of the content over to my PC and then DVD as opposed to watching straight from the camera.
My collegue has advised to go with HDD as opposed to MiniDV as it will be far easier to get the data over to my PC and you dont lose any quality when you convert. Is that the case? If so would 400 quid get a decent HDD model? I dont want to go for bottom of the range. What kind of picture quality could I expect full screen once I have copied the data across to my PC then burnt to DVD?
Also one last thing, its not for a chrimbo pressie (well it is but to myself ) so is it worth waiting until after X-mas before I buy?
If anyone could give me any recomendations or advice it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Phil