Reply To: JoCo Cruise Crazy 2 AV Club
How about hiring a proper video camera?
http://www.hirental.co.uk/video_camera_hire/consumer/Sony_HVR_A1E.html or maybe a CANON XHA1?
I expect that given the stage lights, the Sony would be fine. Its sound quality is a bit poor, so using a decent shotgun mic with a laptop / something else would be better. I know tape is a bit old school, but setting it up and letting it run for 60 minutes sounds good to me! I don’t know if dumping a recording from tape and encoding to h.264 at a good enough bit rate can be done automatically, which I think would be essential to stop it getting in the way of enjoying the cruise!
Anyway, just a thought.