bouldersoundguy
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Hi jamesperrett! Thanks as I might try Reaper over Da Vinci Resolve. So Da Vinci is not good because of their trying to sell you more and maybe not offering much to start? Is their product very expensive?
Reaper is a DAW, a digital audio workstation. I understand it has some basic video editing capability. It's free to try and something like $60 for a non-commercial license. DaVinci Resolve is a very complete video editing program (NLE, nonlinear editor). The free version of resolve is supposed to be fairly capable.
I might put in free clips I find of beautiful scenes for my first debut video on YouTube. I tried to use my Zoom Q8 to capture a beautiful sunset and moon rise here 2 evenings ago and it was a joke, very poor quality, i.e. the moon was big to the naked eye, but a tiny dot with the q8, and the sunset was beautiful red but just a bright almost colorless light and clouds instead of beautiful reddish were just gray, and all appearing much farther away, even with full zoom. I know now I'll have to find free clips of beautiful scenes to maybe patch into my video. Will that be real difficult? Have you seen any good video tutorial about the Zoom Q8 and how to use it, meaning with musician's applications? Zoom only has instructions for using it like a web cam, or what is presented as instruction tutorial is just advertising how great the q8 is. Thanks for you input!
From what I can see the Q8 is a minimal operator input kind of camera. There are a few presets and little other control. A proper camcorder will have more options for dealing with different light situations and also have an optical zoom. Most camcorders will have at least an indoor/outdoor color balance control and some kind of shutter speed and iris adjustment, including automatic options. If you scrounge pawn shops etc. you should be able to score one for $100, maybe less.