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[Indri]

Hi All

I am about to buy a new camcorder but am confused about the merits of HD.  I currently have two camcorders, both a few years old now, which record .avi files to mini DV tape.  However, their ageing moving parts are increasingly making them unreliable in terms of video creation so I'm heading towards replacing them with a camera that records to a hard drive or flash memory cards.

Clearly, the new generation of cameras delivering HD video is the way to go in terms of video quality.  But I am an editing man - shoot whatever takes my interest with wild pans and zooms knowing full well that they will be cut in the editing suite.  And I am getting bad (well maybe mixed) vibes about editing HD video. Many articles I have read say that pcs and their editing software haven't caught up with the technology;  others (including Roxio's own claims for EMC10) say it's ok.

I have a laptop with a 1.8Ghz Pentium M processor with 1Gb of memory.  It's running Windows XP Home Edition V2002 Service Pack 3.  I have a 90Gb hard drive but with masses of external storage hanging of USB2.  I am currently using EMC9 but acknowledge I would have to move to EMC10 if I went the HD route.  I tend to bring my raw video files off the external storage onto the internal hard drive whilst I'm working on them and then push them back out when done.

Can anyone give some advice.  Has EMC10 been developed in order to handle full size HD?  And, given my pc's current configuration, would it really be able to handle it?  Or would it have to be compressed to SD for it to have any chance?

If anyone can give some simple, unambiguous, non-technical advice to a relative muppet, I would be most grateful.

Many thanks in anticpation.

Robin

[grandpabruce]

EMC 10 is 2 versions behind the current software, Creator 2010.  EMC 10 is out of production.

Your computer will not run HD encoding, or if it does, it will take a month of Sundays to encode an hour of video.

[Jim_Hardin]

HD is here to stay and the greatest thing sliced bread is a camcorder with a memory card!

Your PC is garbage for HD editing! Unless you are OK with starting something and coming back tomorrow  

Here are some times I recorded:



The little Dell 530 is a $400 referb without a video card yet look what it can do!

Add Creator 2010 Pro to that mix and you have arrived in HD