Equipment we need?

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Hi! I am VERY new at this! I am a K-8 Computer Teacher, and I need to get
some figures to my principal because we have some money for technology we
have to spend by the end of June and we want to get the kids into video
shooting and editing. In my research from the past couple
of days, this is what I have come up with. Would you be so kind as to take a
look and tell me if I am on the right track? I could use
any and all suggestions! Thanks! Here is my preliminary list of what we will
need:

1. Digital Camcorder with IEEE1394 port and cable for PC connection
2. Video editing software, hopefully, with a Firewire card included.
3. Firewire Card (if it did not come with the software)
4. PC with 1.4 + Ghz, 512 RAM, 64 meg graphic card, and 40+ hard drive
5. DVD burner (Can we use a combo DVD/VCR which reads and writes and
connect it to the PC or does this have to be a DVD burner
specifically for the PC?)

And now for my next question ... I teach 2 days each at 2 different
schools. One school will use the DVD's for play on our closed circuit TV
system. The other school has no closed circuit system and no DVD players.
The easiest would be to put the show on VCR tapes and give them to each
classroom. How can we get the edited movies from the PC onto VCR tapes?

Thanks so much in advance for your help!!!
 
Hi! I am VERY new at this! I am a K-8 Computer Teacher, and I need to get
some figures to my principal because we have some money for technology we
have to spend by the end of June and we want to get the kids into video
shooting and editing. In my research from the past couple
of days, this is what I have come up with. Would you be so kind as to take a
look and tell me if I am on the right track? I could use
any and all suggestions! Thanks! Here is my preliminary list of what we will
need:

1. Digital Camcorder with IEEE1394 port and cable for PC connection
Click to expand...
Try to stretch to one with DV-IN. see below.
2. Video editing software, hopefully, with a Firewire card included.
Click to expand...
If pc comes with XP then you have Movie MAker which is great for beginners.
3. Firewire Card (if it did not come with the software)
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Make sure pc comes with it prefitted, most m/boards now have onboard
firewire.
4. PC with 1.4 + Ghz, 512 RAM, 64 meg graphic card, and 40+ hard drive
Click to expand...
This size pc will be slow compared to the latest models. More ram will help,
but 512 is adequate, but video capture takes 13gb per hour and more than
that for editing/saving and sending out to cam, so hdd in excess of 120gb I
would say. It is also best to have it saved to a seperate hdd from the O/S,
so if you can afford it buy 1 sm and 1 large, if not 1 large and partition
it.
5. DVD burner (Can we use a combo DVD/VCR which reads and writes and
connect it to the PC or does this have to be a DVD burner
specifically for the PC?)
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Get one for the pc, quite cheap these days and it'll be good practise.
And now for my next question ... I teach 2 days each at 2 different
schools. One school will use the DVD's for play on our closed circuit TV
system. The other school has no closed circuit system and no DVD players.
The easiest would be to put the show on VCR tapes and give them to each
classroom. How can we get the edited movies from the PC onto VCR tapes?
Click to expand...
With cam which has dv-in, you send the finished movie out to cam and then
from there out to the vcr. If you can you may be able to connect teh pc to
cam via firewire and teh cam to vcr with composite cable and do it without
recording to minidv tape. Otherwise do it in two steps, to cam and then from
cam to vcr.

Graham
 
Graham,
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It's so great to have someone to ask
about stuff like this where I am clueless! I have a meeting tomorrow with
my principal and the company who maintains our network, so now I feel
prepared!
Mommio
 
I am a high school teacher. We use Movie Maker that comes
with the Windows XP operating system. Movie Maker is free
with XP!!! You can send up to a $1,000 (or more)on
editing software for high-end stuff, however, Movie Maker
should be adequate for your grade leve.

Also, I'l ask for a Hard Drive with 120 GB (Gigs) Video
consumes gobs and gobs of space on the Hard drive. I'd
also go for at least a 2 Gig process which is alot more
than the one in your post (1.4). 512 RAM should be fine..
don't let Administration talk you into less than 512 RAM.
 
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