Recommend video editing..?

Question

Make a list of the best combo of video editing equipment which includes-

Type of mac or pc-

Digital Camera ( Not the slim ones )-

Camcorder-

Video editing Application-

+ Great sound editing

+ Movie like effects

A flash drive-

Memmory stick-

Dont bother going cheap,

for the camcorder I need a handy cam type ( doesnt necessarily have to be sony anything is fine including sony )

Answer 1

Apple Macintosh Mac Pro Tower, fully loaded (max RAM, Terabytes of hard drive space).

Apple 30" Cinema Display HD

Apple Time Machine back up system.

Canon XHA1 or Sony HVR-V1U camcorders

Nikon D300 plus various lenses

iMovieHD 06 and FinalCut Pro studio 2

SoundTrack Pro already bundled with FinalCut Pro; Audacity (Open Source) and GarageBand (bundled with MacOSX new machine)

And about $4,000 more for tripods, additional batteries, Pelican cases, lenses for the camcorders, video lights, several different microphones, boom, LANC, light trees, and more...

Answer 2

This is another best of question, and in the end it comes down to what you want to do, and how much you want to spend. I am going to recommend the following for an average video producer looking to do some event videography and some movie making for fun:

PC (I prefer macs, but the Vegas editing software is not available for Mac) Quad core, 3 gigs ram,100 gig operating drive, 500 gig video drive. (Never record video onto the same drive as your editing software.)

Sony hvr-hd1000u: it's not a handycam but it will give you more stability being a shoulder mount camera. More stability = better video. It also takes very good still images and uses sony memory sticks.

Sony vegas pro 8: it is a jack of all trades editing program, incorporating effects and audio into a simple to use editing program. It's also a lot less expensive than many other professional apps.

Buy a good tripod, a couple of extra batteries and if you can afford it, some good audio equipment.

This whole package comes in under $4500. This is a professional kit. You could make decent money with this equipment.

Tony