Which HD camcorder?

[fattymcgee311]

I guess these things aren't very popular on this site

Anyways, after days of scouring forums and review sites I bought the Canon Vixia HF100 from Amazon for just under 700 dollars and it is absolutely amazing. I have never been more pleased with a camcorder in my life and the price was great. The ability to swap out the SD card makes it easier to work with and with the prices coming down on larger SD cards, you'll be able to have more storage capacity than with a fixed hard drive in no time.

One thing that you might want to consider before you buy an HD camcorder is the software to edit HD files on the computer. You have to have a pretty robust machine in order to edit them and the software can get very pricey. I had to buy Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 in order to work with the m2ts files that the Canon creates and to save them into other formats. Oh, and forget about uploading them to the web because they are HUGE files and you need a very fast internet connection (upload speed as well) in order to share them online. HD is ahead of a lot of other technology right now so you may want to consider those factors.