Advantages: You can play the mini dvd via your player or PC. Disadvantages: Too complicated to set up; Can't yet transfer to PC.
Recording onto a mini-DVD seemed like a good idea in the shop. So I bought the Canon DC301.
I'm not technically minded and find the operation too complicated. The picture quality is not very good. But worst, I couldn't transfer onto my pc hard drive.
I emailed Canon's helpline who said they didn't do software - I'd have to search the Internet. No luck. So I wrote again saying I was going to write a review. They wrote again with a list of software manufacturers.. I still haven't found compatible software. When Canon designed this, couldn't they have collaborated with a software company? I just want a download that recognises Canon's mini-DVD.
My old video camera gave better results - and I could edit to a degree through my video recorder.
My advice - buy from a company who are more customer-friendly. ...
Xristo1 27.10.2009
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The Canon HG21 is a high-class, high-definition camcorder. A number of top-end features make it one of the most flexible consumer camcorders going in the market. It does ?n? number of things and most of them without an error. Some times it makes you wonder can it make a mistake? It is so very flexible that it open to the risk of potential outlay on accessories. Its huge hard drive feels as it never going to exhaust.
CONTROLS
The HG21 gives enough space to bend your fingers in the ridge on the right hand side. The controls are so intelligently placed, the mode dial and the record button are under the right thumb with the stills capture button and the zoom rocker buttons placed right under the first finger. In fact most of the controls are placed on the 69 mm (2.7 in) screen bezel. On the back is located a small plastic cover ...
Advantages: easy to hold and easy to work Disadvantages: image quality is poorer than other cameras
DVD is undeniably superior to the ageing VHS tape format in the world of home movies, but you might be surprised to learn that the same is not necessarily true in the land of the camcorder. Though DVD camcorders offer a far more convenient method of storing footage, the output still lacks the resolution and vibrancy of tape-based MiniDV camcorders.
We won't pull punches on this issue. It's important to realise that while there are many benefits to the new DVD format, you must be prepared to compromise when it comes to editing your footage. DVD camcorders like the DC10 record video to DVD in a linear, permanent fashion. Mainstream editing packages like Final Cut Pro, Premiere and iMovie will not work with the DC10, you have to use Canon's proprietary editing suite. There are ways around this, but image quality is further degraded in ...
x__Amz.Loves.Harry__x 27.02.2008
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