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Originally Posted by Bertrand

Thanks for your contributions !
It clears things a bit, HD and DVD are ruled out.
As for my budget, I'd gasp if I was over €1000, but I accept donations.
Bedtime now.
I'll come back to the links later, struggle with technical English, may ask more questions during the week-end, til I get a firm idea of what would be the ideal machine.
Again, thanks !

yeah, HD is only good in high level cameras like the RED, DVD is shit cos DVD is compressed yuck yuck.

and you dont want a consumer type camera because the controls are ASS, i mean ASS.

it's better to have a more professional camera with pro-style controls for focus, f-stop, zoom & iris aperture than the crummy-ass consumer controls.

perhaps you can find a USED Canon GL1 (the previous model), or better yet a Panasonic DVX-100 or a canon XL-1, which are sweet prosumer cameras and probably only will require you to replace the heads for them to work like new.

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so let me know where/how you plan to show your movies & we go from there!

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as for programs, you can pretty much do anything in SD with intro programs like final cut express or adobe premiere elements. i am not sure if there is an intro version ($100) to sony vegas. moving up the chain then there is sony vegas, avid liquid, adobe premiere, and above is final cut pro, and better than fucking final cut is avid media composer which rules the fucking universe but costs $2500.