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Originally Posted by lorsha
I'm going to be shooting a lot of footage in the next year for a new site my hubby and I are going to be working on, and I was thinking maybe we should get a HD video camera.
We spent a few hours researching them today, and found that suprisingly the $1500.00 Sony HDV 1080i handycam appears to be as good as most of the 5k + ones.
Few questions for you gurus. 
Just how big is HD movies in adult these days? I am assuming that in the next several years that HD is going to slowly become the new standard, so I figured we should start shooting in that format now. Nice feature to is that the HD footage, can still be converted to regular DV standard.
Next question. Just how much more BW does this use? Right now my average clip of about 5 minutes is 30mb. Just how much will that jump in HD footage.
It's a no brainer that an HD site will sell better a few years from now, but what about now?
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We have been shooting with a Sony HVR-Z1 for over a year
we have a few high def clips as promo but thats all but all our footage for a year is ready for when its needed
Bandwith is so cheap now but the consumer is not really ready yet in big enough numbers to wait so long for downloads
However the HD cameras are a huge leap forward in image quality over the previous generation even when you film in HD and output to DV or DVcam so you can't afford not to use one now
We have used the $1500 handycam too and there is a huge difference in quality of picture, sound and focus/ light gathering capabilities with it compared to the Z1.. There is a Pro version which is better as it comes with an off cam mike kit...
the other thing you need to remember is editing...you really need a much more powerfull edit suite to cope with the HD rendering
Hence Adobe's rushed Premier Pro 2.....just look at the system requirements for HD on Adobe's website
Sony Vegas may be a cheaper option but you still need a mighty machine for HD editing
hope this helps