advise on minicam to record bands

[Gman]

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Hi Everyone

Thanks in advance for any help!

Here's the deal. I need a mini camcorder for about $500 to create
promotional mini cds for bands. I realize that the quality at this
price is not going to be the best but I do not have much more than 500
to spend.

What I want to do (comments encouraged) is to use the camera for
obviously the video but also the audio. So, a mic input (that defeats
the internal mic) is imperative. I realize that the mic preamps on
cameras of this price will overload easily and will have very little
headroom so my plans are to use a mic mixer to feed the mic input
(hopefully line input but can do with just mic input). 16 bit audio is
good enough but will need firewire output from the camera. I will need
to edit the audio on my pc and I have needed software for this –


Question regarding audio:
Does the firewire output of camcorders have separate audio and video
‘streams' or are they all one? What are the file formats?


I would like to have a camera that has manual focus along with
auto-focus. (I can live without this)


Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Garry

 

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$500 plus TAX is what we're charging for filming editing and DVD creation of
promotional videos. Internet hosting would be extra.

If its a one time job then I don't see a reason for you to assemble video
production studio. If you're about to enter a videorgapher career then
entrance -level camera will set you back $2500 - $5000. Of course hardware
and software for editing would be extra.

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"gman" <newlinkgarry@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Here's the deal. I need a mini camcorder for about $500 to create
> promotional mini cds for bands. I realize that the quality at this
> price is not going to be the best but I do not have much more than 500
> to spend.
>
> What I want to do (comments encouraged) is to use the camera for
> obviously the video but also the audio. So, a mic input (that defeats
> the internal mic) is imperative. I realize that the mic preamps on
> cameras of this price will overload easily and will have very little
> headroom so my plans are to use a mic mixer to feed the mic input
> (hopefully line input but can do with just mic input). 16 bit audio is
> good enough but will need firewire output from the camera. I will need
> to edit the audio on my pc and I have needed software for this -
>
>
> Question regarding audio:
> Does the firewire output of camcorders have separate audio and video
> 'streams' or are they all one? What are the file formats?
>
>
> I would like to have a camera that has manual focus along with
> auto-focus. (I can live without this)
>
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Garry