On the hunt for a video camera

I have summer school starting on the 19th of May and I received some of the packets early. One of them is a video portfolio packet. I want to be 100% ready before school starts. I do not know much about electronics... The video portfolio packet said that I must film what I do in a veterinary clinic. It also said that the video must be on a DVD, or a portable thumb drive, or other approved video storage device and assignments MUST be in Quick Time, MOV, WMV, MPEG, or AVI format. I do not have any idea what they're talking about. I only ever used iMovie and the videos are in m4v format. I do not have a video camera and I plan to shop for one. I have an old 15-inch MacBook Pro laptop with iMovie, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. It's 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and have a memory of 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 5DRAM. Graphics are NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256 MB. Storage of 160 GB. Disc formats that can be written: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, and DVD+R DL. I suspect that I would need plenty of memory because there will be 20 assignments in one video portfolio AND I will have to do two video portfolios this summer. I didn't receive the other video portfolio packet yet. I suspect that I must make a video portfolio per DVD. Do anyone have a slightest idea of what I would need for a video camera? What kind of DVD do I need to burn videos on? How much memory should I look for in a camera? What do I need to look for? Can I convert m4v videos into these approved formats? I'm looking for an inexpensive but decent quality video camera that films well and can be recognized on my MacBook Pro laptop. I want to be able to edit videos and burn DVDs on my laptop as well. Thanks for your time. Looking forward to hear from you soon!

Sorry that no one replied to your original query. We're users here - just as you are - and questions sometimes just slip through the cracks when we're not looking.
Do you mind sharing your solution? It may benefit others down the road.
Clinton

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