HD Movie Making with Camcorders

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So the HD Movie making hype is growing day after day! People tend to make short movies and documentaries and post them on sites like Youtube and metacafe which in return gain a lot of attention. These movies are normally shot on HD camcorders or DSLR cameras. HD Corders seem to be a cheap option compared to DSLR camera prices. So how do we get the best out of a HD Camcorder? HD corders normally range from $66 even up to $1000. But for obvious reasons we tend to stick to budget camcorders. Here's a few examples for the BEST quality camcorders that I've come across. 1) Sony Handycam HDR-CX130 2) Samsung W200 Rugged Camcorder 3) Kodak Zx1 HD Pocket Video Camera ( 4) Panasonic HDC-SD60K (Kind of expensive compared to the others) 5) Canon Vixia HF M400 The quality of the corder is not the only factor that affects the final quality of the video. Then comes the video editing process, which determines what settings you want to define for the video. For quality assurance I recommend products like, 1) Magix MovieEdit Pro 2) Adobe After Effects But, of course just like you expected, these products are highly expensive and not affordable for most of us, amateur movie makers. So I recommend these free movie editing applications that offer the BEST you can gain out of a freeware application. 1) Apple iMovie (for Mac) 2) Avid FreeDV (for Win and Mac) 3) Cinefx Jashaka 4) Zwei-Stein (Very Popular choice) These are some of the best freeware movie editing applications you can get. Moving on to compiling the videos in HD setting: High Definition videos come in several HD formats. 1) 1080i 2) 1080p 3) 720p *The 'i' and 'p' stand for Interlaced video and progressive scan, which I will cover in a future discussion topic. Always remember to save your video to these settings so that they get saved as HD videos. HD 1080p: 1080p/24 HD 720p: 1280x720, 23,976fps And video output could be either PAL or NTSC depending on your country location. (Will be covered in a future topic) These settings on a video editing software will save your video in a HD format. Depending on your video making software, video setting names and methods could be different. But all in all, HD video is a much preferred choice and very tempting to watch. -wyldeboyy