Need video camera with Line In

[craigweisz]

I regularly need to pull a signal from a presentation video monitor and record it onto a small video camera - rather than a laptop. Can you recommend a camera that has an easy to use Auxiliary/Line In capability? Something lightweight like a Canon Vixia, perhaps? Photographic features can obviously be simple. Thanks.

 

[kelvkelv]

Most of the time, anything that get recorded into a video camera will end up in the computer anyway for editing or storage. Why would you want to record it on a videocam while you already doing it straight into your laptop?

Consumer video camera nowadays are mostly HDs. Unless you go for Profesional models, they do not Auxiliary Video In, just Mic In for some better models.

If you are on a standard definition monitor with composite out like this http://tinyurl.com/q2qcq2j , chances are you can get a DV camera that has video in from ebay. But if you want to edit them or burn them into DVD, you still need to transfer the video from the DV cam into your computer.