Creative Labs Vado Pocket Video Camcorder

PLEASE SEE "Notes and Tips" AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE Price: cheap, £140 - £150 (US $ even cheaper) Weight: weightless Video Format: AVI Video Sizes: Large. I have some clips that are 500MB Storage Capacity: about 2 hours of video (1 clip or many mixed length clips) Battery: lasts about 2 hours. works great for the first 2000 movies, after that you need a new one Portability: extremely portable, can be placed in your pocket Usability: a kid can figure it out without instruction Sound/Audio/Microphone: great clear audio, rough during some loud concerts as it is sensitive and picks up everything Tripod Use: there is a hole on the bottom that is a universal tripod connection size Action Clips: This camera does not lose focus during full motion Focus: you can be within 10 inches of something and keep focus Zoom: zooming in pixelates the video and is not a good idea if you are interested in true HD Color: true color and good in low light conditions as well Comparison: I wo... Read more

I bought the Creative Vado as a gift for my 10 year old grandson who is sharing it with me on occasion! He is into making movies big time right now and was using it to record within 3 minutes of opening the box and had figured out all it's simple working capabilities within an hour. I found the small size and easy to use functions perfect for slipping into a purse or pocket. The microphone isn't great but for the price and size it works well. I don't believe in marking down a good item just because Amazon does a lousy job at delivering it but I need to at least mention that fact as it is so annoying! I recently used the "free shipping" option when buying a Creative MP3 player and it took SIXTEEN days for that player to arrive from Colorado to Idaho! I know Amazon is trying to force people into paying $79.99 a year for Amazon Prime just to get good fast shipping service but 16 days delivery time is ridiculous! So since this Creative Vado was to be a gift and I needed it to arr... Read more

OK, I'll admit it. I was a skeptic. There was no way that this small, inexpensive video recorder could produce a decent video. I was wrong. Of course, you won't get movie theater quality, but you will get adequate video to put on You Tube or a website, video that is good enough to viewed on a large computer screen. I tried shooting in a variety of conditions, from daylight, to overcast and indoors with backlighting and in each case the camera produced clear video with accurate color and decent audio. The camera is simple to use and stows easily in a shirt pocket. The 2x zoom is a bit limited but it helps to get closer to the subject. The USB connection makes charging the battery and transferring videos simple. There are a couple of things that could make this a better product. First, the USB connection, it is a standard sized plug on a short cord. This would work fine on a laptop, but reaching to the back of a computer to plug it in is inconvenient. A better solution would be... Read more

Its specs have been exhaustively reviewed here already, so I won't go into all of that. You take it out of the box, turn it on, press the record button. To upload, you connect the onbooard usb to your computer, the onboard sw starts up and then you click on whatever video you want to upload to YouTube, PhotoBucket, or Box.net without fuss and not much thinking. This device sits between a bonafide camcorder/camera and phone camera/camcorder. It's small and light like a phone cam but delivers much better video then any phone cam I own. Little things that stick out to me are the rubberized coating on the case which gives a decent grip. The short usb cable was clearly designed to connect to a laptop or a usb port on a keyboard. It's somewhat disconcerting to see the camera dangling from the usb port on my desktop pc. The uploading sw is on the device itself which is handy - no need to download client software to different pc's - just connect and upload. Of course, in true Creative fashi... Read more

It's a great little video camera, it would be a great little camera if it was also had Mac based soft wear.

After reading reviews, I decided on this camera for my classroom. It's cool and ever-so-easy to use. Being a Mac user, I needed to use Quicktime to view my movies. Working on several different operating systems between school and home, I initially had problems. I found an application, ViddyUp to put my video in a format that moved between computers and between my Quicktime and iMovie. I'm entirely satisfied with the portability, quality, and ease of using this movie camera.... and it's soooo inexpensive!