SD or HD for video editing?

[SHABOY]

Posted this in the camcorders forum, only to receive a smart-ass reply from specialedDV. Searches of this forum did not help me find my answer. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I own a Sony DCR-HC27E mini-DV tape camcorder. It has served me brilliantly and I cannot fault it at all, but it's a little worse for wear and needs to be replaced.

I mainly make youtube clips from football games. Here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPCI0oHyP5k I would like at least the same picture quality in my next camera. And I would like it to be easy enough to load the footage to PC and edit it using Adobe Premiere Elements 10.

I assumed that an HD camera would be the logical choice but I keep reading about how time-consuming/CPU power-consuming it is to edit HD footage. That puts me off right away.

Should I be looking at something like the Sony Handycam DCR-SX21? Or am I silly to be thinking SD when the rest of the world is going HD?

My budget is £200 / $300.

[Baldrick]

No, you wont get better help by cross posting, continue in https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/341835-Help-please-new-camcorder-should-I-go-for-SD...00#post2128800