camcorder for youtube?

Nicho · 03-10-2007, 12:10

Can anyone reccomend a camcorder that would provide good quality recordings to be posted on youtube, with some reasonable editing software included? ... I'm thinking in terms of a hard disk storage system, which would allow plenty of space for the camera to run (say 20 hours or so). Would it be possible to get something along these lines in the price range £200-350? Thanks.

bobcar · 03-10-2007, 14:01

I can't really answer your question but I would have thought given the very low quality of youtube that any camera would have been good enough in terms of PQ. If you look for specs of cameras it should give running times including for low resolution recording.

nicch · 04-10-2007, 00:12

Well Youtube prefers 320x240 resolution images and will hammer the bitrate in its transcoding process

scudriderdude · 04-10-2007, 09:30

I use a Vivitar DVR-530 - quite cheap now, and decent quality, don;t know about the 20hr recording time,but you can only upload 10 mins to youtube anway!

you can view my recordings using the vivitar at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Northukbikers

03-10-2007, 12:10	#1
Nicho Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: cambridge Posts: 3,640	camcorder for youtube? Can anyone reccomend a camcorder that would provide good quality recordings to be posted on youtube, with some reasonable editing software included? ... I'm thinking in terms of a hard disk storage system, which would allow plenty of space for the camera to run (say 20 hours or so). Would it be possible to get something along these lines in the price range £200-350? Thanks.

03-10-2007, 14:01	#2
bobcar Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 14,718	I can't really answer your question but I would have thought given the very low quality of youtube that any camera would have been good enough in terms of PQ. If you look for specs of cameras it should give running times including for low resolution recording.

04-10-2007, 00:12	#3
nicch Forum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 103	Well Youtube prefers 320x240 resolution images and will hammer the bitrate in its transcoding process

04-10-2007, 09:30	#4
scudriderdude Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 69	I use a Vivitar DVR-530 - quite cheap now, and decent quality, don;t know about the 20hr recording time,but you can only upload 10 mins to youtube anway! you can view my recordings using the vivitar at http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Northukbikers

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