[Shotimes] OT - Digital video cameras

[Carl Prochilo]

If you want to go cheaper, you can go with something like a HI8 camcorder,
then buy something like Pinnacle Studio software with video capture card. 
The specs on your computer are what Mark said, basically you need a decent
P4 or equivalent machine with ATA-100 or better IDE interface and a good
80GB harddrive or larger that runs at 7200RPM.  You should be able to
stream the video and audio to the computer without loss of any significant
number of frames.  With Pinnacle software, you can then convert the raw
AVI file (this sucker will be huge) onto a DVD.  There are good
compression options with it, along with menu generation capability to help
navigate the video.  The software also has decent editing capabilities for
a windoze platform.
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Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Tue, November 2, 2004 4:43 pm, Mark Nunnally said:
> pretty much all the digital ones now come with a firewire port (miniDV,
> digital8, etc).  that's what you'll want/need for a digital transfer to
> and
> from the computer.  miniDV native (off the top of my head) is like 3.5
> meg/sec, so anything faster than say a 7200 rpm ultra ATA is fine (serial
> ata, most firewire drives, etc).  if you plan to play it on any PC, and
> the
> files are std enough to do so (not sure what most PC video programs use
> for
> a file std, AVI?) then you'll need a hot swappable portable drive, (a
> firewire drive, etc).
>
> as for the camera itself, IMHO, Sony makes pretty good stuff (both in
> broadcast stuff and trickle down consumer pieces).  Typically they are
> priced higher than other brands, but their stuff seems to hold up the best
> over the long haul and the quality is good.
>
> for those tech-type who like to keep score, I think the native raw file
> size
> of the 2004 convention DVD (and linked media files) was like 140+ gig on
> my
> computer.  Amazing you can get that on a 4.7 gig disc with 95% of the
> quality of the native video.  MPEG-2 is a great thing!
>
> mark
>
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> Subject: [Shotimes] OT - Digital video cameras
>
>
>> What should I look for in buying a digital video camera? The basic thing
>> I
>> want to do is to be able to record and then take the camera back to my
>> PC
>> and edit the video. I then want to be ale to play it on any PC.
>>
>> Any ideas/suggestions?
>>
>>
>> Paul L Fisher
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