What to Look for in a YouTube Camcorder
There is no denying that YouTube is the decade’s most influential social media site for sharing amateur video. Ranging from informational to comedy, YouTube videos are a great way to share your creations, ideas, and passions.
At the heart of shooting and uploading videos to YouTube, the camera you choose can make the difference between a pleasant and frustrating experience. Popular among YouTubers are a variety of cheap digital camcorders that are often short on features but long on portability. The purpose of this article is to identify the ideal features a cheap digital camcorder (under $200) should have to make uploading videos to YouTube easy, efficient, and fun. The series then continues to review the Flip UltraHD, SONY Bloggie, and Kodak Zi8 in light of these ideal features.
Portability
The best YouTube videos are impromptu captures from everyday life. To make that possible, the ideal digital camcorder should be extremely portable and ready to use at a moment’s notice. Portability, however, goes beyond just the size of the camera; it includes easy of handling, time from power-on to shooting, and battery charging/changing options. The ideal digital camcorder for YouTube should be easy to grasp and aim at the subject, power up quickly so unexpected events can be captured with having to stage them a second time, and offer multiple options when it comes to charging/changing the batteries in the field.
Video Quality
Understandably, the video quality from a portable digital camcorder in the under $200 price range is not going to rival the quality available on more expensive cameras with larger lenses. Still, the quality must be high enough that it isn’t obvious that a video was shot with a low-cost solution
One good thing about shooting video for YouTube is that the company does the video compression for you. This way, no matter what resolution or quality standards your digital camcorder is capable of, you know that the end results aren’t going to be that different from someone who invested hundreds if not thousands in video equipment.
The ideal camcorder for YouTube, therefore, would be capable of shooting video in YouTube’s native resolution and format. You would then have the advantage of seeing what the video will look like before you upload allowing you to avoid having to upload the same video multiple times to squeeze every last bit of quality out of the final production.
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