doing a video recording with a Sony CyberShot DSC-W220 camera

[p_s_92]

I know the camera is not a video camera, but due to budget crunch we have to use this instead of a Sony camcorder we
were about to get. Looked details about the camera at http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Cyber-shot_DSC_W220/verdict.shtml and found that it can shoot VGA (640 x 480 pixels) video at two frame rates and a smaller 320 x 240 size at 8 frames per second.

We need do produce a recording of a 2hour workshop(most likely which will be indoor).

I don't know if the camera supports external mike or not. The produced video will need to be edited
a bit using Windows MovieMaker and we may need to add some animations using Flash or another free tool.

Questions are:

1. How do I determine what is the capacity of the memory stick duo media the camera currently has?
2. How can I find out what length of video can it hold? I see something like

The Cyber-shot DSC-W220 can shoot movies in one of two VGA (640 x 480 pixels) modes. 640 Fine records at 30fps and 640 Standard at 17fps. Movies are encoded and stored as MPEG files and the 640 Fine mode occupies about 1GB of card space for a little over 12 minutes of footage. There's a 2GB single file size limit, so the maximum recording time is effectively just under half an hour. To record using the 640 Fine mode you need to use Memory Stick Duo media.
There's also a 320x240 option which shoots at 8fps. Restricting the small size video to 8fps seems a little over the top though.

at http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Sony_Cyber-shot_DSC_W220/index.shtml

3. Should I record at 640 Fine records at 30fps for good quality or would 640 Standard at 17fps be decent too using which we can record longer?

4. Using a 16GB Memory Stick Duo media can I do a 2 hour recording with reasonably good quality or am I limited to less than half an hour because of the 2GB single file size limit?

Any advice would be welcome.

[CogoSWSDS]

What will your playback device be?

[p_s_92]

What will your playback device be?

Not decided at this point. What would you recommend for our need?

Thanks

[davexnet]

See this table re: video sizes and limits.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?&news_id=320&mdl=DSCW220

[p_s_92]

See this table re: video sizes and limits.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?&news_id=320&mdl=DSCW220

Thanks, that is very useful. Would you recommend any play back device for our recording?

[davexnet]

See this table re: video sizes and limits.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?&news_id=320&mdl=DSCW220

Thanks, that is very useful. Would you recommend any play back device for our recording?

What is your playback situation? Are you giving a presentation to a bunch of people in a big room
in a professional environment? Projector & laptop? Hard to recommend anything specific, but
assuming you have enough time, anything should be possible.

[p_s_92]

See this table re: video sizes and limits.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/news-item.pl?&news_id=320&mdl=DSCW220

Thanks, that is very useful. Would you recommend any play back device for our recording?

What is your playback situation? Are you giving a presentation to a bunch of people in a big room
in a professional environment? Projector & laptop? Hard to recommend anything specific, but
assuming you have enough time, anything should be possible.

Yes, the recording will be done as a presentation to a bunch of people in a big room with projector and laptop(which will play the powerpoint presentation of speaker). The people who cannot attend it will be the audience of the video I will be preparing who can then watch it from a website or from a CD/DVD

Now, what would you recommend as playback device?