Steve - You'll probably do very well making music videos! Now, as to advising about a specific camera, I think you have to be careful about people recommending the brand that they or their company uses. Actually, every brand has a model that will do the job just fine.
Naturally I'm an Adobe Premiere user (thus this forum). I got involved some years ago with Premiere Pro 1.5 and have stuck with it through several versions. I have spent a lot of time learning it, taking courses, and using it. Turns out the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium is rated well enough by professionals everywhere and switching to another product is pointless. (Sure certain other products are good, too, but each still has to be learned.) I am biased enough to think that you, too, can make the Adobe products do what you need. But the Production Premium suite will consume most of your budget. So what to do? The Suite has everything in it, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Soundbooth, OnLocation, Encore, and more. You have to decide whether you would learn to use all that stuff, or whether just Premiere Pro is enough, or indeed whether something simple like Elements is enough (Elements is functionally comparable only to Premiere Pro, not to any of the other applications in the Suite package). For cameras, on my budget I saw fit to get three "prosumer" ones rather than a single "professional" one. I wanted HD 1920x1080, some manual adjustments, and no tapes; mine have a hard drive. Some have removable memory which I think are over-priced; therefore I still prefer the HD models. Mine are JVC. They take excellent video so I ask myself "why do I need a professional camera"? I also have tripods, mic's (both on-camera and regular stand types), an audio mixer, and other stuff which, are very useful but I acquired this stuff over time, not in one initial purchase. To shop for cameras and tripods, go to www.bhphotovideo.com and there you will find just about every brand and model made, plus each has a feature list and technical specifications. At that one site you can do an awful lot of comparison. Their prices are decent and their response is fantastic, so I bought most of my stuff from them. I think they have the best web site of any seller. If you are going to use Adobe Premiere Pro you might want to get a camera that it has native support for. Premiere Pro does not support the TOD files my camera's make so I have to convert them (which works flawlessly but it is something I have to do). They might loudly advertise support for $4000+ cameras, just realize they do in fact support lesser cameras, too. Enjoy! Lee From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of stevejhacker Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AP] Re: Where Should I Invest? . I'm personally going to try to shoot for that same creative edge in my (eventual) music videos. I want enough random and abstract color, texture, and depth that the audience can be left wondering "what the heck?", and wanting to GO BACK AND WATCH AGAIN, to try to figure out exactly what was being conveyed. That being said, the FIRST thing I still have to do, is buy some equipment! Anybody come up with any ideas yet for my BIG FAT $2000 budget? Lol... Take care all... Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
