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Hard Drive Camcorders VS DV Camcords. what should I get?

Hey,
I am planning to get anew camcorder. Since I am an IT person(I am programmer) . I like to edit my videos add music , mix videos and create interesting movies. Now I use 5 years old Digital 8 camcorder. Now, its time to buy a new toy. Can’t deside what to get. Plus i do not like quality….
It takes too long to transfer video from camcorder to computer for dv. Hardrive camcorders looks better in this case.What about picture quality? Will i loose quality if i will buy hardrive camcorders instead of mini dv?
Any particular Models in mind?

I recently bought the DCR-SR100, and I’m very happy with the video quality. While it’s true that it records in mpeg2 (same format as DVD) and the quality suffers when compared to mini-dv. But will you be making DVD’s of you videos? If so, you would be converting (compressing) the mini-DV video to mpeg2 format anyway.

As for editing mpeg2 videos, there are fewer choices vs. mini-dv. Here are a couple of mpeg2 editors that I know of that won’t re-encode mpeg2 video other than the transitions (to minimize further compression and loss of video quality).

http://www.womble.com/

http://www.ulead.com/vs/runme.htm

Free trial versions are available for downloading at their respective websites.

Personally, I enjoy the convenience of copying the video files over to my computer. I am now able to burn my videos to DVD much faster than when I used my mini-dv camcorder.
Here’s a review of the DCR-SR100

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-DCR-SR100-Camcorder-Review.htm

and the recently release HCR-SR1 (records in High Def Video)

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-HDR-SR1-Camcorder-Review.htm

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