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I am thinking of getting a small digital camera
(the Canon SD300.)
This camera also makes full sized .avi's.

Any one out there with one of these small digicams that has captured
avi's from the SD cards and edited these videos?

Realizing the limitations of these cameras compared to a camcorder, I
would appreciate any hands on opinions re video quality from these
cameras.

Thanking you in advance!

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<mouln@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I am thinking of getting a small digital camera
> (the Canon SD300.)
> This camera also makes full sized .avi's.
>
> Any one out there with one of these small digicams that has captured
> avi's from the SD cards and edited these videos?
>
> Realizing the limitations of these cameras compared to a camcorder, I
> would appreciate any hands on opinions re video quality from these
> cameras.
>
> Thanking you in advance!
>

If video is important,get a digital camcorder... if stills are important,
get a digital camera...

I have worked with the type of vid you describe
to quote Timmons the teamster in "Dances With Wolves", "ain't nothin' there,
lootenant..."

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On 27 Feb 2005 06:19:22 -0800, mouln@yahoo.com wrote:

>I am thinking of getting a small digital camera
>(the Canon SD300.)
>This camera also makes full sized .avi's.
>

I have this camera. For it's size and for what it is, it takes nice
pictures within limitations (size of pics, slightly blurry on the
edges in wide shots & purple fringe with high contrast shots
sometimes) and decent videos with sound in 640 x 480 screen size. The
videos can be up to almost nine minutes in length if you have a fast
(and empty) 1 Gb card like I do . The files however are very
compressed avi files witha special codec, not gigantic DV AVI files
like you get from a mini-DV camcorder. Before you ask, editing these
files may be possible, but they may have to be converted to dv avi
files first. I tried editing one test vid in Premiere and that was my
experience.