Buying a HD Camcorder??? What type of brand is the best?

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JamesWayne

okay right now im looking at a canon vixia hg20 or 21 HD camcorder. What i dont know if whether canon is the best HD. Ive checked some videos in youtube. and have seen them to be great. But which is the best brand of HD camcorder that is best cheapeast at $899 below HD camcorders. and what brand is the best canon, sony, or etc... plz help.

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Personally I would recommend the Canon HV30. This camera is the sucessor to Canon's immensely popular and successful HV20. This camera is a nice size and form factor and takes beautiful 1080p video recorded onto MiniDV. For any sports recording where your camera gets jarred and banged a lot I would recommend MiniDV or some kind of solid state memory, as hard drives don't last long under those conditions. This camcorder records in 30p so your footage will be nice and clean and smooth, even with fast motion, unlike many other consumer camcorders. Also this camera features a 24p mode so the fps (frames per second) will match that of film, giving your image a more film like look and feel. Of course the image quality is also excellent with very accurate, vivid colors, and excellent Full HD quality. The sound is also very nice and you can add an external microphone if you want. Really for the consumer HD market the Canon HV30 is one of the best, and at a price point of only $600 on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Canon-HV30-Definition-Camcorder-Stabilized/dp/B00114PN1U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1238298165&sr=8-1 it falls firmly within your budget range. If you get this camera, I know you wont be disappointed.

PS- A side note/warning about HD camcorders. HD requires significant computer horsepower to edit and process. A computer with a minimum of a 2.4ghz P4 or a 2.0 Core 2 Duo processor with at least 2gb of ram is basically the minimum required to work with footage from any HD camcorder. Also new editing software (such as the latest version of Sony's Vegas) will be required to edit the footage. If you don't have a computer powerful enough to work with this footage you will either need to get a new computer or else not edit the footage and keep it on tape. Hope this helps.

What object would break easiest?

Lexxie

Going to be breaking a range of objects for fun, got a 2,000 budget so any ideas? what would smash easy?

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I don't get it. what are you breaking these for? Your own personal amusement?

Should at least make a close up slo-mo video.
If you have a good camera and editing software for it anyway.

To answer your question:
A science beaker
baby food jar
One of those fancy glass things, you know the one you can make music with
light bulbs
an old computer monitor, you know, big whie ones, pretty huge monitor
bunches a stuff

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can I edit full HD video from my DSLR camera with intel i5 laptop?

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Dave1982

I just bought a nikon D7000 but I need a much better computer to edit movies. Is a intel i5 processor on laptops enough to edit full HD videos ?

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Are you assuming that there is only one Intel Core i5 processor? Because there are several.
There are these 13 first generation Core i5 mobile processors
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/59141/Previous-Generation-Intel-Core-i5-Processor/mobile
... and there are these 7 more second generation Core i5 mobile processors
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/59134/2nd-Generation-Intel-Core-i5-Processors/mobile

So... which processor are you talking about? Because some of those would be better than others. Can you use any of them? Of course... you have already discovered you can edit full HD Video without a Core i5 processor... you have been doing so. So, obviously you can edit video with one as well. But you are referencing whether or not a Core i5 processor will be an improvement over your current computer.

This fails because you have provided no frame of reference. We would need to know your old computer specifications, and we would need a specific Core i5 processor to compare to your old CPU.

Thanks.

What is better: A Quad Core with a Intel HD 4000 or a Dual Core with a GT 635M?

Ken

I'm currently looking at budget laptops for college. I'm considering the Lenovo Z580 line of laptops at the moment and I'm conflicted on which is a better buy: an Intel Core i7-3520M 2.9GHz with Intel HD 4000 or an Intel Core i5 3210M 2.50GHz with an nVidia GT 635M graphics card. I am planning to do some casual gaming on the machine (League of Legends, Minecraft, etc) as well as use it for video editing and music making.
The video card has 1 GB of dedicated video memory.
Also, they're around the same price, give or take 10 or so dollars.

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For gaming, go for the better video card (635M). Most games use only one core, so multi core does not help gaming as much as better video cards. Make sure the 635m has dedicated video ram, not shared system ram... (otherwise they will be about the same...)

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