Video equipment for online guitar lessons web-site

I'm putting together some video lessons for my website and would like
some advice on decent equipment for somebody on a budget. I got some
muslin backdrops, worked out the lighting and have been fooling around
with my son's Sony DCR HC26 running it straight into Magix Movie Edit
Pro via Firewire and the results aren't bad (for web resolution
anyway), but there's a high-pitched whine that I can't seem to get rid
of (unfortunately the HC26 doesn't have a separate audio input jack).

Because I do mainly music, I've got some very good equipment for
recording the sound (a MOTU 2408, FirePod, a couple ADATs, an Alesis
Studio 32 mixer and a pile of ribbon and condenser mics). But the
Movie Edit Pro software doesn't allow you to choose the source for
each track when importing audio and video (at least not
simultaneously).

Ideally I'd like to be able to record direct to a hard disk with two
cameras (one wide shot and another that would be positioned to mainly
just show my hands on the guitar) with a separate multi-track audio
(I'd like to use one overhead mic for speaking, a DI for the guitar,
and a stereo track for play-a-long recordings I intend to use).

I suppose I could try running a separate program to record the audio
and then another to capture the cameras, but that's a kind of messy
solution.

I'd appreciate any suggestions about software and hardware.

Thanks.

Rick Stone
www.rickstone.com
.

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