So panzy you seem to be saying that I should take nothing you say
seriously.
..
What I said you directly qoute as above, but you decided in your own
askew fashion to misinterpret it to suit you.
You want to enter the arena of home video editing.
You want to use a specific Hi-Def Canon mini DV camcorder.
You want to partner it with a laptop.
You seem to think a recommendation from a usenet poster
will solve the issue, it won't, it will be disasterous.
First you need to discern what you are going to do with the
footage once transferred to the laptop. Once edited, will you:
a] Be transferring it back to DV mini tape and using the Canon
as a playback device connected to a large screen Hi-Def display
and using mini DV tapes for archiving?
b] Archiving the footage on the laptop for playback on the laptop
or connecting the laptop to a large screen Hi-Def display if so
you require a vast amount of HDD capacity and a laptop with a
HDMI output.
c] Archiving the edited footage to removeable media such as DVD or
BluRay?
Once you have discerned what you are going to do with the finished
edited footage, you then have to discern how you are going to do it.
Video editing is demanding of any computer.
All firewire equipped computers will recognise the Canon, as well
as any brand of DV camcorder.
You seem to think "Brand" names count for something special -
not so, lets take two brands you seem to have faith in:
Sony and HP.
The mighty Sony is no longer the pioneering stormtrooper it once
was, The legendary Trinitrons huh, those are days long past.
Sony no longer have their own "TV" production lines.
LCD's: There are just 3 main production lines for LCD's.
Sony and Philips bought into the LG group. All Sony's (And Philips)
LCD's are made on the LG production facilities.
Toshiba bought a non-controlling stake in Samsung.
All other notable "brands" also roll off those two production lines -
Sharp, Panny, Hitachi etc etc.
The third notable production line is in China, being the main source of
obscurely named budget brands sold in the likes of Walmart or Tesco's etc.
With computers it is even more pronounced that the "Brand" name on the
front is meaningless.
All will run and depend on one main operating system - Windows
(we won't do the linux debate here)
All will source their motherboards from a small coterie of OEM's.
All will source HDD's again from a small band of OEM's.
All will have processors from one of just two OEM's - AMD or Intel.
Burners: There is indeed still a number of OEM's manufacturing their
own units, Panasonic being notable (but for how much longer?)
But the two you have faith in -Sony and HP?
HP have never made anything, all out sourced, and with burners it
will invariably be a rebadged TSST.corp model (Toshiba Samsung
Storage Technology corporation). With Sony (and Philips) yep, you've
guessed - made on the LG production line.
All computers use components identical to each other, the "Brand"
name is meaningless in this day and age.
You should aim for the best value and top specification for your money.
You want a recommendation, just not possible, so I'll try an *example*
and the reasons why:
This is a potent Asus laptop, Asus being an established and
respected "brand"
http://tinyurl.com/msouqb
Chosen as an *example* because:
It has that all important firewire port for capturing footage from
a DV camcorder - Canon or any other DV cam.
A HDMI output for connecting your laptop to a large screen Hi-Def
display to view your edited footage in full Hi-Def glory.
An efficient processor and plenty of RAM so it won't flinch at
demanding Hi-Def video editing.
An excellent on-board video chipset to display your Hi-Def footage
A reasonable amount of HDD space - but that will be rapidly
consumed with Hi-Def footage that consumes huge amounts of HDD.
But an all important esata port, this will allow the connection of an
external sata drive to increase capacity upto 1.5 tb, but also to add
an external BluRay burner.
But it's not a recommendation, it can only be an example because
you could get an almost identically configured model from:
Toshiba
http://www.toshiba.com/tai/products/laptops/index.html
Or Dell
http://www.dell.co.uk/home/laptops
Or from any mainstream or specialist laptop manufacturer.
They will all use the same processors, the same components
the same operating system etc.
It is for you first to discern what exactly you want to do in home
video production, how you want to do it and what your budget is.
And for gods sake don't read replies from imbeciles making
"recommendations" or anyone who always replies to any post that
the solution is a TV card and encoder9...
