anybody using these things? i want a little tiny camcorder that will fit in a pocket easily and these seem to be it, but anybody use one and how are the results??

A friend of mine has a JVC. It has up to 37 hours of recording capability. I would assume it goes to 640 x 480, which is DVD quality. I have not had much trigger time with it. Cost is around 400 bucks at Waltermart. I want one of my own...

There are MPEG4 cameras to be had at Waltermart for about 50 bucks. I don't know how you would convert the format to .avi once you had the video captured. I assume there's conversion software out there...

I have tried most of them, and wasn't too impressed.

Right now I am using a Canon HF10. It is the best so far.

It has a 30 GB internal memory, and has an SD slot. The quality of results is exceptionalyy good. It records in HD, and the supplied software will play these clips on your computer.

One thing to bear in mind, however. If you wish to edit your videos and put them on either Blu-Ray for HD viewing on compatible TVs, or if you wish to convert them to be put on normal DVDs, you will need a computer with very high resources.

I am doing them on a dual processor quad cores, and my computer slows down to a crawl. A 1 hour video would take over 24 hours to process.

In comparison, I could do a normal video captured off a DV tape in less than an hour.

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I am doing them on a dual processor quad cores, and my computer slows down to a crawl. A 1 hour video would take over 24 hours to process.

Is this a PC Walter made for you??

Can't be the PC - must be the Application??

How much data is that 1hr video??

Well, I am not really sure why computers seem to be so slow with HD video.

Some reports keep quoting how resorce intensive HD is.

Here are the figures.

Normal DV is 720x560 at 30 fps
HD is 1920x1080 at either 50 or 60 fps.

So that figures as HD is over 10 times more intesive than SD.

Interesting..

I will be at my hardware guy's shop tom. and ask him what he thinks the hold-up might be.

They build a lot of Gorilla Desk-Tops for Defense Contactors here.