Articles on Camcorders

How to Choose a Digital Camcorder

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Now that everybody in America has written a screenplay (see How to Sell a Screenplay), it's time to start shooting. Digital camcorders, many selling for under $1,000, capture remarkably high-quality images and are just plain fun to use. Combine ... more »

How to Find the Best Camcorder for Filming Sporting Events

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Look, up in the stands, a guy filming a soccer game with a camcorder. Sporting events need a camcorder that can keep pace with the players on the field while still being easy to use for the guy in the stands. The best camcorders for filming ... more »

How to Find the Best Camcorder to Make Home Movies

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When you’re considering shopping for a camcorder, you probably hope to find the camcorder that will most easily and effectively suit your needs. Home videos can become important memories over the years; and while taking them, you want to know ... more »

How to Learn the Basics of Good Camera Work

By eHow Electronics Editor

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When you master these simple preliminary guidelines, your videos will look much more professional. The first step is learning how to hold the camera steady. You will probably have better luck steadying an optical viewfinder camera than an LCD camera... more »

How to Learn to Use Your Video Camera

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Before you use your camcorder, take some time at home to learn how it works and how to make use of its features. That way you won't be faced with a mad scramble under pressure when you want to do something and can't figure out how... more »

How to Make an Independent Film With Your Camcorder

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If Ed Wood could make movies, why not you? Independent films are easier and easier to make with the continuing refinement of camcorder technology. With a little preparation, a small amount of money and an iron will, you can shoot a picture that ... more »

How to Shop For A Digital Camcorder/ Video Camera

By L1onherd

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Buying a camcorder can be a very frustrating task. With thousands of different camcorders on the market today who can decide what camcorder you need and what options are available. Not to mention if you want an analog camcorder of a digital ... more »

How to Take Photos and Video of Chemtrails over Your Home

By momoftwingirls

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Once you begin looking up into the sky where you live, you will be shocked to learn that those white plumes of smoke are actually chemtrails, not contrails, over your home and city. After researching these chemtrails, you decide it is time for ... more »

How to Transfer Video From a Camcorder to a PC Using a FireWire

By eHow Electronics Editor

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After you’re done shooting your video, next comes transferring your video from your camcorder to your computer. The most efficient way is with an IEEE 1394 cable, commonly called FireWire that transfers in digital. So, the video quality is ... more »

How to use your digital video camera as a webcam for cheap

By desolator144

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We all know most cheap webcams look like crap and the good ones cost way too much. So if you have a digital video camera lying around, or actually even an analog one, you can use it as a webcam. The picture quality will be so much better than ... more »

How to Be a good YouTube user

By Banstaman

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We all strive to be the best...just sometimes not in the right areas!.. more »

How to Buy a Tripod for a Camcorder

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Buying a Tripod for a camcorder is simple. Tripods can come in handy.Tripods can be useful while recording for long periods of time and trying to achieve professional video footage... more »

How to Dub a Camcorder Recording to DVD

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Do you have great video footage stuck on your camcorder? Video footage isn’t much good if you can’t watch it. In order to watch your productions you first have to dub the camcorder recording onto a DVD. Although the process may seem highly ... more »

How to extend your batteries life (cell phone , camcorder , any rechargeable)

By russostyle

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hey guys whats up im going to give you this tip that no battery company wants you to know.. more »

How to Move Old 8mm or 16mm Films to Digital Video (the cheap way)

By MrCHUCK mrchuck999.blogspot.com

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Transferring film to tape or digital the professional way is a massive undertaking and very expensive. If you have old family memories on old 16mm or old 8mm film, you can move them to the digital domain for very little cost. This process is ... more »

How to post a video from a DV cam

By Splendor

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It took me a while to learn how to do this and I finally figured out how to use the software in combination with the internet... more »

How to Transfer an 8mm Tape to VHS with Camera Audio/Video Outputs

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Transferring your memories from 8mm to VHS is a process much like recording your favorite television shows. By hooking up the camera outputs to the VCR using the video and audio jacks, you can record the information on to the VHS tape without ... more »

How to Video an Event

By Paul M. J. Suchecki

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Event videography is a professional specialty. Even seasoned shooters can be taken aback by its on-the-spot demands. I think back to the first wedding that I taped, back when we would actually tape and edit on VHS tape. I had taught production ... more »

How to Buy an External Microphone for a Camcorder

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While camcorders are equipped with a built-in microphone to allow for sound and image to be perfectly synchronized, the built-in microphone is usually surround sensitive, so it tends to pick up surrounding sounds. In most cases there is a ... more »

How to Choose a Web Camera

By eHow Computers Editor

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Ever see live images transmitted over the Web? These illustrate the power of Web cams, hardware-software combinations that stream live video or transmit frequently changing still images onto Web pages. You can use a videoconferencing camera (the ... more »

How to Clean a Camcorder

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Play and record images of the highest quality by keeping your camcorder clean... more »

How to Find the Best Camcorder for Filming Indoors

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Filming indoors is problematic for camcorders: poor low-light performance can result in grainy or unwatchable video. When shopping for a digital camcorder to use indoors, be sure to look for these features... more »

How to Make a Home Movie With Your Camcorder

By eHow Electronics Editor

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The trick of making a good home movie is in the planning and editing. The shooting part is easy. The hard stuff comes before and after. Here is how to make a home movie with your camcorder... more »

How to Transfer Video From Camcorder to PC

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Now that you have thousands of memories stored in your camcorder tapes, it’s time to turn them into videos you can cherish for a lifetime. Transferring video from a camcorder to a PC is generally a process that your computer will walk you through... more »

How to Videotape Family Events

By eHow Electronics Editor

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Although taping a family event, such as a reunion or a barbecue, sounds like the easiest thing in the world to do, it's difficult to make a video that you and your family will actually enjoy watching for years to come. But these simple rules will ... more »

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