Re: Seeking Camcorder Advice

2 May 2007 7:31 AM

=(8)

If you are going to be doing any editing at all then you don't want a Hard
Drive based or DVD based camcorder. Both of these compress the video with
MPEG2 or something type of compression. Editing compressed video that will
then be recompressed to master out to DVD or whatever is a bad idea. So
unless in your price range you can get one of these types of cameras that
doesn't compress I would look for a MiniDV which doesn't compress the video.

=(8)

4 May 2007 1:08 PM

David Ruether

"=(8)" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:46383e68$0$14124$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...

> If you are going to be doing any editing at all then you don't want a Hard Drive based or DVD based camcorder. Both of these
> compress the video with MPEG2 or something type of compression. Editing compressed video that will then be recompressed to master
> out to DVD or whatever is a bad idea. So unless in your price range you can get one of these types of cameras that doesn't
> compress I would look for a MiniDV which doesn't compress the video.

I agree with your advice, but not with the reason (exactly...;-). Mini-DV is
compressed, but at a lower rate (5:1) and frame-by-frame, unlike the HD
or disk based recorders - and editing software for editing Mini-DV is more
common. Also, I would always master back to Mini-DV or D-8 (multiple
copies) for highest quality in addition to making a DVD master for making
multiple DVDs if desired...

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