Comments on: High Def. Hard Drive Camcorders – WATCH BEFORE YOU BUY!

By: Boboxtv

Boboxtv — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:45:24 +0000

cool

By: blade75964

blade75964 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:04:45 +0000

Hi, good video. I have a question, I bought this one on ebay,,, Sony HDR-HC3 HDV 1080i High Definition Camcorder, and wanted to know if this is a good camcorder to edit with. This one takes the SD card, and also records on mini DV tapes. I also have sony vegas 8 pro. Would this camcorder would be good to edit my vids. Thank you.

By: matt3756

matt3756 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:31:46 +0000

if it records to mini-dv it should be fine. I remember in my college class we were experimenting with the big high end sony HD camcorders that recorded to mini-dv and we ended up capturing standard mini-dv quality for it to work if I recall right. But like if your computer can’t handle capturing HD quality, you can always capture standard mini-dv quality which is good.

By: blade75964

blade75964 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:43:02 +0000

Thank you, very helpful. My computer should be able to handle it. I have A A-Series motherboard Gigabyte board with 2 gig of ram, 360 harddrive, e-GeForce 7300 Gs vidoe card made by Nvidia with 256meg ram. 3400+CPU. So I am thinking that my computer should handle it. Anyway thank you for your help.

By: blade75964

blade75964 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:55:49 +0000

Hi, how its going, thank you. Well I got the camera and having a bit of a problem, just thought you might be of some help. you can take a look at my video I posted about it. I just bought a new firewire 3 port pci card and the 6 pin to 4 pin firewire cable. but when I connect it to the camcorder, it keeps asking me for a driver, and I called sony, but they say it does not have a driver. I am really stuck on thine one, and hope you might be of some help on this. Thanks

Paul.

By: matt3756

matt3756 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:37:59 +0000

Im not really sure. Your video editing software should recognize the camcorder. Try google and search for your camera name and model then put the word driver after it, see if you find anything. Did it come with a CD?

By: blade75964

blade75964 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:04:23 +0000

Hi, thank you for your help, but I had something wrong with my computer, so I was told that I might have to reinstall windows xp pro. Well I formated my drive and did a complete new install, and its working very good now.

By: REALITYCHECKRECORDZ

REALITYCHECKRECORDZ — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:40:54 +0000

yup i had a big drop in qaulity too but i was useing a sony not a cannon, but in terms of space, its great 6G lot of space you can record tell the cows come home but useing mini Dv is sooo uuuggggg i hate tapes

By: matt3756

matt3756 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:25:15 +0000

well in my opinion it is easier to just capture it by firewire and have a high quality editable file ready to edit. I never have luck with conversion software.

By: CAJUNNSC

CAJUNNSC — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:52:43 +0000

Okay my thoughts. And first of all yeah me too pissed. These friking companies want us to buy their products and don’t even offer software to use the dam footage we produce what a crook of crap. Then not only that they also all have different MTS preparatory formats now what the hell is this all about. Man can we not just get something for a change that works out the box like we thought it did we we purchased it…dam! WTF right! U telling me Sony Canon Panasonic cant afford to do this. BS !!!