Less is better – Zooming in
The zoom feature in most cameras allows you to get nearer to your subject than physically possible. But there’s a bad side to this feature that is enough to cause splitting headaches when your audience watches your film. If you want to zoom into a subject, it is better to zoom in then record, shifting to the wider shot afterwards than zooming into the subject. It would also be a nice idea to get a tripod that would eliminate most of the movements of your hand that is magnified more and more as you zoom in. Most digital camcorders boast 2,000X magnification which is quite useful for landscape shots but of not much use for shooting people for at that distance, it’ll be like looking at ants from a skyscraper.
External Hard Drives – More Storage as Needed
There are several ways by which you could obtain or add much needed storage through external USB hard drives or if you prefer, an NAS appliance which is a dedicated hard-drive on a stripped down computer attached onto the network through a cable. The need for a lot of space is quite demanding on computer systems and so is ample cooling to prevent your PC or editing computer from going into a meltdown. Proper cooling can be attained with the use of an air conditioning unit and a dehumidifier to keep the air dry or by peppering your desktop with cooling fans to take away heat that is generated by the processor, video card and hard drives. With the advent of the terabyte drives, storage isn;t much of a problem yet they are still quite pricey and for a more realistic storage solution, several SATA drives would do.
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