I need a new video camera. The results do not need to be cinematically stellar, but I do not want the video to be so jittery or blurred it is distracting. I will use this 1 camera for now and perhaps later add 1 or more additional identical cameras fixed at different angels.
The moments being recorded by this camera will be of me in three distinct contexts :
1) academic lectures with slides edited into a pip box, fake monitor, or whole screen, (I am a college professor.)
2) guitar instruction video will use both upper body, talking head and hand closeup angles, (I am a performing and teaching musician.)
3) brief opinion and commentary from a talking head sitting or standing before a green screen. (I am an ass who thinks he knows everything.)(please laugh.)
There will be no need for zooming. All audio will be simultaneously recorded on high quality multi-track digital divices so that audio in the camera would only be used to synchronize editing in Vegas. I would prefer a solid state wide-screen format. Video will always be shot indoors. What is most important to me is a sufficiently sharp image with smooth motion compatible with occasional chroma key editing. I do not want the lecturer to move from one side of the screen to the other leaving an extremely noticeable interlaced jag. Nor do I want the guitarist to be playing at a slower speed and yet his fingers are nothing but a blur. I want the talking head to appear to be in any environment I am clever enough to edit in. And I do not want a susequent DVD to look like old style Youtube compression. Objects within view of the camera may be in motion but the camera itself will always be fixed, never tracked or panned.
At this point in time I am still recovering from damage to my home and studio due to a flood and so I need to spend as little as possible to get adequate results.
Your recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
The moments being recorded by this camera will be of me in three distinct contexts :
1) academic lectures with slides edited into a pip box, fake monitor, or whole screen, (I am a college professor.)
2) guitar instruction video will use both upper body, talking head and hand closeup angles, (I am a performing and teaching musician.)
3) brief opinion and commentary from a talking head sitting or standing before a green screen. (I am an ass who thinks he knows everything.)(please laugh.)
There will be no need for zooming. All audio will be simultaneously recorded on high quality multi-track digital divices so that audio in the camera would only be used to synchronize editing in Vegas. I would prefer a solid state wide-screen format. Video will always be shot indoors. What is most important to me is a sufficiently sharp image with smooth motion compatible with occasional chroma key editing. I do not want the lecturer to move from one side of the screen to the other leaving an extremely noticeable interlaced jag. Nor do I want the guitarist to be playing at a slower speed and yet his fingers are nothing but a blur. I want the talking head to appear to be in any environment I am clever enough to edit in. And I do not want a susequent DVD to look like old style Youtube compression. Objects within view of the camera may be in motion but the camera itself will always be fixed, never tracked or panned.
At this point in time I am still recovering from damage to my home and studio due to a flood and so I need to spend as little as possible to get adequate results.
Your recommendations would be greatly appreciated.