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camera for video upload on youtube

Sep 19, 2014 6:00AM PDT

Hi,
I need a video camera to shoot video lectures that can be uploaded on youtube with descent quality. Some specific requirements are
1. best video quality in the range of 300-500$.
2. zoom is not required.
3. external audio input will be advantageous but not required at the cost of compromising video quality in the budget specified. (recording audio separately and mixing using softwares). Large inbuilt memory is also not necessary as i m using external memory card.

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What do you own today?
Sep 19, 2014 7:36AM PDT
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Any video can be
Sep 24, 2014 12:27PM PDT

uploaded to YouTube when in the right format. Since you are possibly open to "recording audio separately and mixing using softwares" then you'll be editing. If you have the video in an editor you can render the video to be posted to whatever format the video editor will deal with - including file types and formats that YouTube will accept.

Canon HF R500. Has a mic jack. Uses SDHC flash memory cards. Records to consumer grade AVCHD compressed video that can be transcoded or imported directly into a video editor - assuming you have a decent video editor (current versions of MovieMaker for Windows and iMovie for Macintosh can import the video when you connect the camcorder to the computer with a USB cable and import - not use a card reader).

Hope your computer CPU, RAM and hard disc drive space are up to the task. Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere and Apple Final Cut Pro X are WAY more full-featured than any bundled or free editors...

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Modern editors
Sep 24, 2014 3:08PM PDT

usually have a set of tabs to export directly to YouTube, Vimeo etc. I use Corel VideoStudio Pro X7 and that will export to YT, Vimeo, Facebook and Flickr once you have logged in.

Your question about a camera is really not related to the upload.
Are you recording a lecture to a class?
or are you sitting in front of your PC and talking to camera?
In the first case the Cano may be the best but in the second case a webcam connected via USB would do.