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This week we made a start on recording footage for the digital camcorder reviews. Above you can see the cameras we are using.
Over the next few weeks we will be releasing short (less than 10 minutes) reviews of each camera. Details can be found here
I want to find the perfect camera for your classroom, I don’t expect to find a one size suits all type solution.
Challenge CLC have been extremely kind in funding this project and Bradford schools have been more then happy to write a review based on their experiences with the different cameras. My plan is to rotate the cameras between schools and classrooms to get multiple reviews on each camera.
We are buying 10 cameras and reviewing them over the next few weeks. Also thanks to @Raff31, @LordLangley73 and @DeerWood for their input. We will be using this document for suggestions on ways to use these cameras.
Our shortlist (of which we probably need to remove 1/2):
And a bit controversial:
* = Comes highly recommended
/ = Stunning design
+ = Built in memory (Enough to record video)
m = Special memory required
Which would you remove? Has anyone seen any info on an action video camera being used in a classroom before? Does this seem completely silly? I like Silly, do you?
Removing the first bunch..
Getting my list down was painfully difficult, I wanted to try as many cameras as possible but some where too expensive or not suitable and my budget is limited!
The HTC Hero ships with a camcorder that records audio and video in 3gp mode using an audio encoder called “samr” (according to VLC)
VLC Errors: “VLC does not support the audio or video format “samr”. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.” When you try to play the file and windows media player also plays no audio although doesn’t throw up any errors.