My own personal preference would be to go for a Mini DV camcorder when it comes to editing, mpeg's and other obscure variants can be a big problem when it comes to capturing video into any of the popular editors. Even if you do get the video into one of the popular video editors the audio can go out of sync with the video at some point. Of course try and get a camcorder that has most of the features you are looking for but don't forget about transferring your movies off the camcorder and onto the computer, how difficult is it going to be to do that?

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