Connor Crews

I have one question about the DVX100B, any body who has used it, does it have a cinematic look to the film? Oh, actualy two, does it work well in dim light situations? The first short, the one I told you about is all normal outside, daytime light, but another one we are planning on, is going to be night time (even though we are going to set up lighitng, its still not going to be much. The main things I want with my camera are: a cinematic feel (in all lights), decent battery life, able to work with Final Cut Pro and the less it is from $4000, the better. Oh and to answer the question, we have a tripod that does have a free moving head, it's pretty reliable and I've been using it for a while now.

I looked at that Sony HVR-V1U, and really like it, especially the ability to be able to just drag files instead of having to digitize the film (which is always my least favorite part of making my videos). The only thing I could not find out was if it worked with Mac, but it says on the Sony website that it comes with USB so it probably would (and Sony isn't stupid enough to not have support for Mac also).

Well I'm not really learning filmmaking (per-se), I've made a lot of home videos with two previous camcorders, a very very old camcorder that I can't remember what brand or model it is, and a DV camcorder from Sony. So I'm not really jumping in because I've made a lot of shorts already, even though they all sucked mainly because I was either young or I didn't have a script (which I have now learned: huge mistake.). But here are the two cameras we are a looking at the most: Sony HDV Camcorder: Sony HDR-FX7 HDV 1080I, Carl Zeiss 62mm lens, 20x opt. Zoom, 3.5" LCD and Canon HDV Camcorder: Canon XH-AIHD Pro-camcorder Digic DVII Processor 3CCD (1400 x 1080) Resolution Both are around $3,500.

I've been interested in film-making and writing my entire life, and recently me and my friend wrote a 27-page short film that we are planning to shoot this June/July. We have the script, it's been revised, we have movie editing software chosen and we are planning on purchasing it soon (Final Cut Pro), we have half of the roles cast, while the other half we know who we want and they have pretty much agreed to be in it (we just aren't confirmed yet), we have all the sets chosen, the film is modern so we won't need to spend much on costumes, we have all the effects planned out and we have a lot of people volunteering for crew... but we need one last thing... a new camera. We aren't planning on renting a camera, we want to buy one, mainly because we plan after this to shoot another short (that I'm currently in the process of writing) near the end of this year (probably around November). Our budget is about $4,000. We know that most cameras we would buy around that price would probably please us, but we want to try to get the best one possible... So... could we have some opinions and reccomendations, please?