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I have in the past participated in some video productions using very sophisticated equipment. If you want very professional video a 3cam Betcam setup is the way to go. Of course this kind of work requires personnel and a lot of equipment. About 5 years ago I realized that new technology has given us capability that did not exist 5 years ago. Since then I have done extensive work my goal being to produce a watchable video of an event using an absolute minimum of technology a "Single Camera Shoot". I use Canon Vixia cameras ($250) they are small and unobtrusive. These cameras record in true 1920x1080 HDTV video format. I have used them on table tripod in a dinner club for example. For music performances you want an uninterrupted audio track so no matter what happens the camera must not be stopped. I have in the past always used the sound track from the camera microphone but maybe some day I will get to try the mic input from a better sound source. I am thinking about a master audio recording to a Netbook via a USB mixer. Any how people often comment how good the sound is and at a site like LG the wind, the audience noise, and many other factors effect the sound quality and are all completely beyond my control anyhow.
I set my Vixia to its highest resolution giving me just over five hours recording time using 32gb SD chips. This will require at least 3 fully charged batteries. At LG unless it is a very cloudy day shooting stage center is impossible as the back light from the lake prevents good video. There are only two shooting positions at LG, stage right early afternoon, and stage left, later afternoon. I start my camera at the beginning of each tune and stop at the end so that I hopefully have a continuous audio recording any defects in the video I can fix during the editing process.
A fixed tripod is nice but I want more mobility so I hand hold on a mono pod this works quite well for an hour or so and then my hands gives out.
I download my chips with custom software that time stamps the files so that I can coordinate clips from several cameras if necessary. The files are then loaded in an editing program called Sony Vegas ($60) which has everything you will ever need for simple video editing in the Win7 environment.
These methods will never produce professional results but they can produce a credible record of an event where "no other video recording" was possible.
Starting in the 1980's I acquired a VHS video camera. I attend numerous music events and I started to video some of them. Through the years I updated my equipment frequently transitioning from tape to digital media and about 10 years ago started posting on Youtube. There are presently about 100 uploads. Here is a link to all these posts.
https://www.youtube.com/user/electriac/videos
Some of the earliest posts were of limited quality as we were using NTSC at that time. Today 2018 and for about 5 years now I have adopted full 1080 HDTV as my standard and most recently I acquired a new Cannon Vixia R800 for $200. I use 32gb class 10 chips which hold 5+hrs of video. This camera creates standard mp4 files that I load in Sony Vegas HD Editor available on their site for about $50. I do a rough cut edit on these files and encode to M2T files. M2T files in Vegas can be cut and edited while re-encoding only the edited portion without incurring encoding losses on the total project. This means that the production can be processed cut and paste many times without incurring generational encoding losses. I have processed some videos over 50 generations without any significant loss in quality..
2018.04.21 I recently did video of the Jim Ridl - John Locke performance at the "Senate Garage" in Kingtson. I had never been there before so I had no idea if the artists wanted me to shoot video or whether the conditions lighting etc. would even allow for video. As it turned out Jim and John agreed and a lighting check proved acceptable. The interior of the Senate Garage is Dark Red brick and provided a very good backdrop for video unlike the white walls at the "Spring" and "Athens Cultural Center". This interior color caused the video chroma to be a little high and red but decided not to process this out. "Processing" is always lossy.
Here is a good example of a high quality video shoot using as many as five cameras