Band Music Video

[sekthree]

Hello everyone,
i'm wanting to record some music video's for my band. I don't have a vid cam yet, but looking into buying one, i'm a n00b when it comes to vid's and anything related,but i learn quick....what would be the best cam for me to do this type of work? miniDV,High Def,HI8,etc...on the camera i'd like to stay under $1,000 to record the video portion of it and i have my music files which i can convert to any format if i needed to...mp3,wav,wma,m4a,etc....
if this ^ portion can't be answered it's ok, but if you got a link that'll help be it'd be greatly appriciated..
NOW for the 2nd part, in which i posted this topic here,

What is the best software for me to edit and prepare my video to get it to almost if not professional music video quality?? I've seen Adobe Premier Pro CS3,ULEAD, Adobe Premier Elements, and PowerDirect...but really whats the best for music video's??
Has Any body created a music vid. before,i see them on youtube all the time, and just wonder how hard is it to edit and join the vid file and music file... if anybody gots any suggestions,links or comments shoot them at me!!
sorry if this has been posted before,i saw the post by lostinthewood and don't know if he was going for the same thing as i was... so i put my subject a little more directed toward's what's to be done...

THANX--snooganes!!

SEKTHREE--->25/7 ;p

[zoobie]

HD is the way to go using any of the above editors.
The music usually determines the cuts.
I'll bet youtube is full of garage bands music videos...

[DB83]

DV would be fine. Hi8 is mono and of course HD will give you the best picture quality.

But when it comes to editing, expecially for music vids, you could have a problem.

A straight forward, single camera shoot is not a problem. But if you want to cut your footage for different shots you will soon run into either a sound-sync issue if you only use the sound from one of the shots or a timing issue if you cut each clip with its sound.

This is why pro music vids are not shot with live sound. Sound is done with playback and miming. Even then the playback sound is not recorded with the video but is added at the editing stage.

[sekthree]

THANK YOU'S all soooo much, this will at least get me started where to look...

If all goes well and we're successful like "ok go", all will be credited!!!

THANX!!

SEKTHREE--->25/7 ;p

[Richard_G]

I've done a couple for local bands. I shoot with 3 MiniDV camcorders, leaving them all running all the time. Edit in Ulead Mediastudio Pro using the soundtrack to sync the footage from each cam. I also record (as 48kHz wav) to a laptop a clean audio feed straight from the mixing desk and insert that on the timeline synced to the other 3 tracks. Lock the audio and split it from the video so I can cut the video to select which shot I want without cutting the audio as well.

Finally, I use about 60% clean audio feed with the remaining 40% taken from the camcorders to provide audience sounds and give it a live sound to it.