One of the features I liked was the S-Video connection. Of course, the retard that I am I always forget S-video doesn't output sound, so I'll still need to use the RCA cables it came with.
It also came with a video editting software package. Again, I'll thrown down a review of it as I use it. I don't know how much after effects kind of stuff I'll be doing at first. Probably just titles/credits and scene transitions.
It has a light on it, but it's not very impressive. Looks like it would be good for doing Blair Witch-type outside video, but inside an already lighted room it doesn't do squat. There is no "slot" to add a better light onto it either.
The menu is pretty simple to use. There is a little directional pad kind of like something you'd find on a cell phone.
The zoom (25x) is pretty good. Some of the tape camera have something like an 800x zoom. Sounds good on paper, but when I played around with those in the store you lose a lot of clraity and stability (which I know could be fixed with a tripod), but it's probably more than I 'd ever need.
Quoted: Have fun downloading it to your PC when you want to save it. Then the PC goes boom. Call me an old fart, I'll stick to my DV tape.
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I haven't done it yet but if it's anything like my point-n-shoot the video stays on the HD if you copy to the PC... until you manually delete it. Unless you cut-&-paste it to the PC HD.
I prefer a little redundancy until it's burned to a DVD.
While I was driving home from the store I was thinking, "Man this thing's small enough to take into a movie theater and do some movie-cam bootlegs".
and the first thing I said to my wife when I came home with it was "homemade porn tonight honey?". She wasn't up for it... that may change.