Audio/Video recording...just to share/for fun...

[FloridaGull]

I am interested in getting an audio/video recorder so that I might record a video or 2. I have seen this:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/porta...video-recorder...

a Zoom Q2HD Handy HD Video Recorder - $200 at Musician's Friend - does anyone have any experience with this? Any other ideas?

[Rudy4]

If you're looking to do something simple and you have a webcam just record directly on YouTube. You can do simple video editing directly on the YouTube site.

[Steve Berger]

The Zoom Q2HD has a fixed wide angle lens. Not the best feature IMO for audio/video recording solo guitar.

[Fran Guidry]

I've done quite a bit of shooting with the out of production Zoom Q3HD, here's a playlist of the test videos I made with it: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Thx9dljenzVuyH

I recently bought the newer Q4: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...2q-N9Lw51yFPQx

I've never used a Q2HD, the lack of an audio input was a stopper for me. But I found a few acoustic guitar examples on YouTube demonstrating that unit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-FERGbwYbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUazwl8p1Bo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VffP3PfALQE

There are two or three competitors to these Zoom cameras. Sony has released the HDR-MV1. Found some videos of that as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpj0...id=P99eWdeLewQ (these guys rock!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_m_sW8mWzE (maybe turn off the fan??)

Tascam makes the DR-V1HD, I didn't immediately find any acoustic clips on YouTube with this camera but I've seen samples that were very nice and this one is the least expensive I know. It's limited to 720p rather than the 1080p that the others produce.

Olympus produced a similar but rather quirky 720p shooter but it has been discontinued.

A webcam will do the job of capturing video, but the frame rate and other factors tend to limit the quality.

Many consumer video cameras are similar in price to these "music" cameras, the problem being that there are so many choices it can be dizzying trying to choose. Audio quality is likely to be a bit lower on these than on the music cameras.

And it's common for point & shoot still cameras to have video features, once again complicated by the number of choices and audio limitations.

Then there's always the smart phone option. I think the video from the latest generation of high end phones is pretty impressive, and there are audio options to explore with those tools.

Fran

[MikeBmusic]

My Sony P&S shoots 1080HD and the 2 mics on the top surface do pretty good audio capture - but the auto compression will kill dynamics. I'll hook up an LDC condensor mic into the computer and record the audio on Reaper at the same time as shooting the video (obviously only works in the studio) then mute the camera's audio and put the edited Reaper audio track into the video project.