Hitachi DZ-BD7HA is the first camcorder that can record to a Blu-ray disc and one that has it all wrong. It has a few features that do not have little potential.
You will need an extremely expensive Blu-ray disc reader to view the video. It features the worst auto and manual controls. It has bad auto and manual focus. Most of its manual controls operate from the LCD. The USB and HDMI terminals are on the LCD. Despite of the facility to record to HDD, Blu-ray, and SD/SDHC, the still pictures are recorded to a SD/SDHC card. One of its worst features is its low light performance. It has the capability to deliver good results only in very bright light.
Over and above Hitachi DZ-BD7HA is a very expensive camcorder that also happens to be the worst performer when compared to other camcorders like the Canon HR10 and Sony HDR-UX7.

Adobe CS4 is editing software designed for professionals and it works on, both Windows and Mac platform. It is well equipped with some of the better features found in an editing program.
One of the best features of the Adobe CS4 is the ease with which one can shift between workspaces. It is a very well integrated package with a number of applications, that include Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, Adobe Soundbooth CS4, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 with Encore CS4 and OnLocation. These applications are capable of delivering brilliant results. The cost of the CS4 is towards the higher side. However, the applications are all the more expensive, when considering their individual costs. Out and out it is a neat program with lots of good features, and at a price that can be actually called reasonable, at least considering the quality and number of features.

It’s hard to imagine a better Father’s Day gift for dad than preserving family memories with a cool new gadget. A new high definition video camera is the perfect complement to the HDTV and Blu-ray player that mysteriously showed up in the living room last year. This year’s digital camcorders offer ultimate portability, full high definition recording (1080p), face tracking, and automatic smile detection. Choosing the best camcorder can be difficult, and June 21st is just around the corner, so to simplify your decision here are 5 of the best camcorders for dads.

Sony Vegas Pro is editing software for Windows and although it can perform both, audio and video editing, audio editing is certainly its strength. It has quite a few new features, but at the same time, it also shares the same problems like the earlier version 8.1.
It fails to offer many new features when you compare it with Vegas Pro 8. It includes a few new plug-ins and visual effects. It supports Blu-ray authoring in MPEG2 AVC format, thanks to the DVD Architect5. It also offers support for AVCHD, DV, mpeg2 HDV, and MPEG. Simple tasks can be very difficult to perform and you may have to take the help of tutorials to do them.
Although, Sony Vegas Pro has some flaws it is a good bargain at the price, when compared to other editing programs in the same price range. It has the capability to provide results that can be achieved from a professional program.

Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro is a highly efficient and stable editing interface that incorporates new and improved features. It gives you almost the same interface as the one in Vegas Pro 8 and at the same time is an enhanced version of Vegas Movie Studio 9. It is intended at semi-professionals and enthusiasts.
Priced at $239, Platinum Pro includes quite a few features for that amount of money. Most of these features are present in the standard Movie Studio 9, but they are very useful features that were …

Final Cut Studio 2 is a fantastic editing software that has six powerful applications specially designed for editors. It is loaded with high-end features and is aimed at experienced to professional users. This software that was used to edit movies like Letters from Iwo Jima, Cold Mountain, and No Country for Old Men, can definitely be called one of a kind.  Sorry Windows users, Final Cut Studio 2 is only available for the Mac.
Final Cut Studio 2 needs a 1.25GHz Mac computer running OS 10.4.9 with 1GB of RAM and …