Choosing a Video Camera for Video Analysis

[OrangeOne]

Looking for some advice. A complex I'm coaching at is looking to buy a Video camera to do video analysis for students. Essentially, we want to easily be able to record slo-mo segments on each shot for a student, and package it up with 5 or 10 mins of matchplay and hand a copy to each student.

Whilst it's not a "money is no object" purchase, we are willing to spend the $$$ on the right camera that will let us do the job properly. Requirements:
1. Excellent slow motion recording (most important)
2. Good normal speed recording
3. Ease of use
4. Multi-purpose use (be good if it took decent still pics, though that said anything in the price-range we're looking at does, will want to use it to package up some web-adverts for coaching, etc etc too)

Right now, I'm leaning towards the below Sony:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665291500

It has, from what I can tell, a good slo-mo feature (10 seconds at quite slo-mo), nice ease-of-use (including linking to the Sony DVD drive for computer-less transfer), and meets the other requirements too.

Anyone want to give any guidance? Is there something cheaper that will meet the requirements?

 

[bumfluff]

Try looking at various review sites. http://www.trustedreviews.com/ Thats one of my favourites. Maybre an HD camera would be useful for that extra bit of quality. Try and find something that is good at picking up quick movements so you don't have any ghosting or anything like that.

 

[jamauss]

Hi Orange,
I bought one of the first models of Sony HD video cameras (HDR-SR1) and I've been pretty happy with the quality and features it provides.

How you plan on "handing a copy to each student" is what I'm wondering. Are you going to burn BluRay Discs for them to watch? Do you know if they have an HDTV and BluRay player to watch it on or will you hand out a standard-def DVD to them? Just some things to think about.

As far as video editing goes - that camcorder records to the sony format (AVCHD). If you go HDMI out from it to your HDTV the picture will look AMAZING but if you have to transfer the video over to a computer and render it into MPEG/WMV/AVI format you could lose a substantial amount of picture quality.

Just some things to think about. That is a nice camera, btw.

 

[BrianGordon]

Looking for some advice. A complex I'm coaching at is looking to buy a Video camera to do video analysis for students. Essentially, we want to easily be able to record slo-mo segments on each shot for a student, and package it up with 5 or 10 mins of matchplay and hand a copy to each student.

Whilst it's not a "money is no object" purchase, we are willing to spend the $$$ on the right camera that will let us do the job properly. Requirements:
1. Excellent slow motion recording (most important)
2. Good normal speed recording
3. Ease of use
4. Multi-purpose use (be good if it took decent still pics, though that said anything in the price-range we're looking at does, will want to use it to package up some web-adverts for coaching, etc etc too)

Right now, I'm leaning towards the below Sony:

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665291500

It has, from what I can tell, a good slo-mo feature (10 seconds at quite slo-mo), nice ease-of-use (including linking to the Sony DVD drive for computer-less transfer), and meets the other requirements too.

Anyone want to give any guidance? Is there something cheaper that will meet the requirements?

Casio EX-F1 - 30frames or 60fields/s in HD - records at 300, 600, 1200 frames/s in SD with progressively decreasing image size - shutter to 1/40000 - downloads to .mov format - records to memory card - $1000.00