Q. Should I just buy a digital camera AND a camcorder? Or is the video quality of the SX10 good enough to replace a camcorder? What gigabyte of SDHC card would be appropriate for shooting videos?
A. Not any P&S camera can match the quality found on the most modest camcorder and certainly none of the features found on camcorders.
The video feature on P&S cameras are just a little marketing feature, never meant to replace a true video camera
If your goal is to make video shorts of other homegrown videos, look to camcorders made by Canon, Panasonic, JVC or Sony
The video feature on P&S cameras are just a little marketing feature, never meant to replace a true video camera
If your goal is to make video shorts of other homegrown videos, look to camcorders made by Canon, Panasonic, JVC or Sony
Are all the Canon Vixia camcorders the same video quality with only differences in zoom and battery life?
Q. I wouldnt mind getting the lowest price model if video quality can be the same with only differences in battery life and such. I'm just going to make a skateboard videow itht his so the angles and stuff I want don't require such high tech super focusing power or something. I can deal with the low battery life also just want to make sure the video quality is the same.
A. No.
The HG series were designed to record very highly compressed AVCHD/MTS format video to an internal hard drive. The HF and HF S series were designed to record very highly compressed AVCHD/MTS format video to flah memory. Some have built-in flash memory, some use removable SD cards. The MTS files are copied to the computer over USB and the video editor must decompress them before editing. The video editor must be capable of dealing with MTS files - or you need to convert the files first - typically, if you convert the MTS files to some other format before your editor gets them, this means the video is no longer high definition. There is no clearly defined long-term archive process flow in case you want the video in a year, or 2 or 5 or 10...
The HV series were designed to record to miniDV tape using the same DV and HDV format used by professional videographers. The DV and HDV video formats are recorded to inexpensive miniDV tape - but this means your computer must have a firewire port to import that video... and it also means that when you do not re-use the tape, it is the long-term archive. Most video editors can deal with DV format video - HDV may be a problem (but most likely just with the low-end editors like MovieMaker). Assuming it is not a problem, after inporting the video and editing, you can export that high definition video project back to the camcorder and use the camcorder as a playback deck and watch in high definition oin a HDTV when the camcorder is connected with component or HDMI cables. This is not possible with flash memory or hard disc drive consumer camcorders.
If your computer has no firewire port and no way to add one, then you only decent option is flash memory. Even though the video file types and video compression are the same, hard disc drive camcorders have other known issues with vibration and high altitude - and potential video data recovery challenges when the camcorder breaks and the video has not yet been transferred. With miniDV tape or flash memory, just take the tape or memory card out and find a similar camcorder for transfer. In the case of a flash memory card, just use a cheap card reader.
There's lots more, but these are the big-deal issues.
The HG series were designed to record very highly compressed AVCHD/MTS format video to an internal hard drive. The HF and HF S series were designed to record very highly compressed AVCHD/MTS format video to flah memory. Some have built-in flash memory, some use removable SD cards. The MTS files are copied to the computer over USB and the video editor must decompress them before editing. The video editor must be capable of dealing with MTS files - or you need to convert the files first - typically, if you convert the MTS files to some other format before your editor gets them, this means the video is no longer high definition. There is no clearly defined long-term archive process flow in case you want the video in a year, or 2 or 5 or 10...
The HV series were designed to record to miniDV tape using the same DV and HDV format used by professional videographers. The DV and HDV video formats are recorded to inexpensive miniDV tape - but this means your computer must have a firewire port to import that video... and it also means that when you do not re-use the tape, it is the long-term archive. Most video editors can deal with DV format video - HDV may be a problem (but most likely just with the low-end editors like MovieMaker). Assuming it is not a problem, after inporting the video and editing, you can export that high definition video project back to the camcorder and use the camcorder as a playback deck and watch in high definition oin a HDTV when the camcorder is connected with component or HDMI cables. This is not possible with flash memory or hard disc drive consumer camcorders.
If your computer has no firewire port and no way to add one, then you only decent option is flash memory. Even though the video file types and video compression are the same, hard disc drive camcorders have other known issues with vibration and high altitude - and potential video data recovery challenges when the camcorder breaks and the video has not yet been transferred. With miniDV tape or flash memory, just take the tape or memory card out and find a similar camcorder for transfer. In the case of a flash memory card, just use a cheap card reader.
There's lots more, but these are the big-deal issues.
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