For ANYONE who bought a camcorder!!! not a hard question!!!???

Question

when you buy a camcorder, does it come with a CD to put in your computer so that you can edit your videos and save them and stuff?

and where can you find a decent price for a decent camera?

walmart?target?bestbuy? i have no circut city

Answer 1

Most cameras will come with a CD for your computer. If you have a mac 9/10 times you won't need it, but if you use windows you will. Ask the salesperson if the camera comes with one. As for best prices it depends on what you're looking for. Best Buy will have the better variety of cameras, and they'll offer a pretty good price for their products.

Answer 2

curry's or argos

Answer 3

You might want to know the following information on how to connect these 2 different kinds of camcorders to your PC. I think the Hard Drive camcorders use a USB cord, but the mini dv cameras have the best quality. Shop online to get an idea of prices, then go to the actual stores to buy. I got both of my cameras from Bestbuy.

If you have a mini dv (cassette) camcorder….

Your dv camcorder needs a firewire connection (ieee 1394) in order to download video, your PC probably did not come with a firewire port, so you will have to buy one and install it, since most computers (except possibly brand new) don't come with a firewire port, your camcorder did not come with a firewire cord so you have to purchase a cord too. Your camcorder did come with a USB cord and that is used for downloading stills from your camcorder. Make sure your camera is in playback mode.

If you have a mini dvd camcorder….

You will have to finalize your dvd in the camera and then put the dvd in your computer 's DVD burner (top loading only) and then you will have to convert the files (i downloaded handbrake file converter free) and import them into your editing program. Use the HELP feature in your editing program to learn about editing. Once you are ready to burn, your project will be burned to a different DVD and you can file the original away.

Answer 4

You'll often get something to manage stills but almost never anything to edit the video.  If you do, that probably means the camcorder's using some obscure format that nothing else can deal with - bad news!  If you want to edit your video, Windows Movie Maker can handle MiniDV but not the video recorded by DVD and hard drive camcorders.  Commercial editors can edit them, but the quality's not as good as MiniDV.