To record video/audio sermons:
- Canon Elura 100 video camera. A nice compact camera that delivers really good image quality. Not a professional camera by any means but at $350 not bad at all... after all I only use it as an image receiver.
- A small tripod
- Archos 504 media player/recorder with media docking station. I record the actual image and sound on this. For the video image I plug the video camera into the docking station RCA video in port. To record the sound I take a direct feed from the church's mixing desk into the docking stations RCA stereo sound ports. With the Archos you could in theory use any digital camera/video camera to capture the image as this does all the recording. I do it this way as the Archos records in AVI format making mixing the recording as simple as downloading the AVI file to a computer, mixing, and then uploading. No Firewire cables needed, no tapes or DVDR's, no converting from one file format to another... simply download the video file from the Archos.
- Computer - Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with Intel Core 2 CPU running at 2GHz, 2GB ram, ATI Radeon X1400 with 256MB dedicated for graphics. It helps to have a good computer to mix and upload from.
- Windows Movie Maker. You can use pretty much any video editing program such as Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere, but this works well for my needs right now.