Equipment for video taping lessons, etc.?

[Bob]

I saw the 'videotaping lessons' thread on the teaching board again.

If you were going to tape lessons, as a student or teacher, what would the *reasonably* best equipment be?

I'm thinking some kind of small, very portable digital videocamera, with good sound so you wouldn't have to worry about also making an audio tape.  With digital media, like a high capacity SD card, so you could reuse the same card to tape on again and again, but still copy the video file and save it on a hard drive or burn it to a another form of media later on. As opposed to constantly buying a new disc to record each lesson on.

And then for placement, a tripod.  Set up to either capture the student or teacher's hands, or both if there's only one piano.

[quantum]

You might want to go so far as to using separate audio equipment then dubbing that over the video later on.  It would allow for both optimal mic and camera placement. 

[goldentone]

You might want to go so far as to using separate audio equipment then dubbing that over the video later on.  It would allow for both optimal mic and camera placement. 

Wouldn't that be a trick afterwards to get the audio and video in sync?

[quantum]

I've done it before.  You record audio on the camera as well.  After all recording is completed you import the camera video + audio, and independent audio to video editing software.  You just line up the two audio tracks, then mute the one from the camera. 

Sharp percussive sounds are good for lining up audio, so a couple claps before playing is all it takes.