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nickaster

Q: Video Camera Recomendations

Hi there - couple of questions here. 

 

I've been doing a lot of basic video with a Kodak Zi8 (very simple flip cam) and iMovie '09

 

Time to take it up a notch.  Primarily I do video interviews but I've also been doing some little movies.  Curious to hear of a camera recomendation that's up to $1000 but not more that folks would recomend that also plays nicely with a late 2008 MacBook.  I believe I only have the 2 USB ports. No Firewire. 

 

1) Is it futilre to get high end without Firewire or equivalent? Can I get a better conection to my mac?

2) What's the general learning curve moving from iMovie ti Final Cut Pro - crazy? easy?

3) Any other camera recomendations appreciated.  Here's an example of what I've managed to do with the little Kodak - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjg55tGGbjo  Considering what I"m working with, I thought that came out pretty well :-)    Current recomendation has been the Canon Vixia G10, thought I guess it's G20 now?

 

 

Many thanks!

MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 20, 2014 4:36 PM