I need suggestions camera work!

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Comment by alex dinich on March 21, 2013 at 5:39pm

thanks guys i think i am going to get the pro it seems like u get much more for only a slight price increase

Comment by Colin Ferek on March 21, 2013 at 11:10am

Alex, I was looking at the air as well. I found a lightly used MacBook pro 13in for the same price of a Air. Much more storage and all the bells and whistles. Happy shopping! Can't wait to see some vids! 

Comment by Russell Mayes on March 20, 2013 at 2:57pm

Alex, while you can certainly use a macbook air.. You would be better served by going with a Macbook pro 12 or 13" I forget which is the latest size. You will get much better processing power and storage (which are the two things that video editing EATS ALIVE).

Comment by alex dinich on March 20, 2013 at 2:48pm

Josh, or anyone that can answer this, I'm looking at getting a MacBook air with 4gb memory and 256gb hard drive. Would that be big enough to maybe make some short videos sometime down the line or would I want a bigger hard drive?

Comment by Russell Mayes on March 8, 2013 at 11:57am

I think that at some point we all get obsessed with the quality of video and sounds and such. I read in Robert Rodriguez' book "Rebel without a crew", and I totally believe this. "If your audience notices technical flaws in your film (or video) then you lost them somewhere with the story" or something like that. Meaning if your video is boring they will notice stuff like video quality, if your video holds their attention, no one notices that your lighting is two different colors or the fat dude in the window reflection eating a burrito. 

Any camera is good enough, even a smart phone. I know that Douglas McCoy did a few videos with his iphone and they are super cool. 

Content in KING.

Can't wait to see it.

Comment by JoshXO Fighting!!! on March 8, 2013 at 10:56am

Sure thing man. Can't wait to see stuff

Comment by Colin Ferek on March 8, 2013 at 10:36am

Awesomeness!! Thanks for the help! I'll keep you posted when I start shooting. All this is very DIY so I'm positive there will be a lot of trial and error. We should put something together some day man! Even if it's just a skate vid. 

Comment by JoshXO Fighting!!! on March 8, 2013 at 10:32am

Cool, here's one on ebay that should be a good starter cam if you fel comfortable dealing with ebay. It's almost the same model I started with and I just replaced it with a used Canon 7d. Shop around a little if you want and READ REVIEWS from cnet to see all the pros and cons before you buy. Cool thing about this one is you can buy cheap lens kits for wide angle telephoto fisheye etc and still have money for a couple memory cards.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-HF-21-HDMI-1080-High-Def-Camcorder-hf...

Comment by Colin Ferek on March 8, 2013 at 10:19am

Thanks Josh! I definitely don't have the budget for much. I'm looking for clear picture, but edited fun and gritty. can $200-$400 get me started? I just picked up a macbook pro I figure that will help with all of this. 

Comment by JoshXO Fighting!!! on March 8, 2013 at 10:00am

The camera question is a bit broad, if I had $30,000 laying around I could spend it in about 30 seconds buying camera stuff on ebay. So give me a round about number and I can give you some suggestions and what to look for.

 As for editing program Final Cut X for mac is a great program to start out on, make sure to look up how much RAM you mac can use and max that out first, video is a HUGE memory hog. Oh and also look into getting an external thunderbolt drive to hold media on as it's slow to work off of one disk.

 If you go to joshxo.com click on video's and I give descriptions for most of the videos I did and what I filmed em with to give you an Idea on things.