[thechat] advice on buying a digital camcorder

[Bob Davis]

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 08:00 PM, Isaac Forman wrote:

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>
>> i have seen three types --
>> - dvd camcorders
>> - mini-dv camerals
>> - hi8 or mini8 or similar
>
> Friend at the office who has shot TVCs and very decent short films on
> his little Sony miniDV (then edited in iMovie or similar) says miniDV.
> Then hook it all up via firewire. You'll probably want a decent
> harddrive (he uses a 120gig firewire external). You can get adapters
> that play the miniDV cassettes in a standard VCR.
>

I second that. It's very easy to do this.

There's probably something similar on the Windows side.

bob