Question on camcorders
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Which is better: HDD, DVD or DV? In the process of buying one and need good technical information.
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If you don't mind that few hundred bucks, go for HDD.Originally posted by Chin Eng:As above:
Which is better: HDD, DVD or DV? In the process of buying one and need good technical information.
Thanks.
DV can be a top choice provided that you have a high performance computer with softwares like Ulead Video Studio or Apple Final Cut
When i say a high performance computer i mean one thats at least dual core with 1GB of RAM and indivisual 256MB graphics.
DV are recorded on tape and thus has the best quality, but usually most of them are lost when you transfer the video to your pc and recode them. Thus a high performance pc is needed.
The other 2 kinds are good if you don't prefer to edit your video much. They can just be extracted and burn to DVD. -
I personally use DV V-Cam and have chunked out 3 videos so far which is more than 10mins after the editing process. So far, the video is quite good.
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Me have a Sony DV Cam, very flexible and got bluetooth... Using Windows Movie Maker to churn out two videos shot while in Hong Kong, using wmv format, quality not bad...
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Personally I prefer DV, or rather miniDV since miniDV is smaller in size but same quality. It is just right for VCD quality.Originally posted by chenc:If you don't mind that few hundred bucks, go for HDD.
DV can be a top choice provided that you have a high performance computer with softwares like Ulead Video Studio or Apple Final Cut
When i say a high performance computer i mean one thats at least dual core with 1GB of RAM and indivisual 256MB graphics.
DV are recorded on tape and thus has the best quality, but usually most of them are lost when you transfer the video to your pc and recode them. Thus a high performance pc is needed.
The other 2 kinds are good if you don't prefer to edit your video much. They can just be extracted and burn to DVD.
When transferring to your PC, the quality is not lost, but the footages from miniDV or DV tapes can be rather huge, ranging to few gigs of data for a few minutes of footages. The quality of the video data is similar to the original footages. Quality loss occurs AFTER you export your video from the video editing software into other formats. Ways to sustain the video quality is to export the finished product back into miniDV or DV tapes, or you can export it as uncompressed format (also known as lossless).
If you are doing proper film productions, I strongly recommend miniDV or DV. HDD and DVD is more for watching on PC type of videos. -
Thanks all....
Not looking at too much post-production. Just point and shoot vacation video, able to download with no hassle, and playback on DVD player - no need hollywood DVD quality.... so maybe going for the Everio G. -
But a DV Camcorder might be better in case you might want to play with the editing software in the future.Originally posted by Chin Eng:Thanks all....
Not looking at too much post-production. Just point and shoot vacation video, able to download with no hassle, and playback on DVD player - no need hollywood DVD quality.... so maybe going for the Everio G. -
Oh i see what you mean. Theres a point. But a MiniDV or DV can record pictures of 35 frames per second. With a non-professional processing machine, 25 frames is recommended as the machine is unlikely to juggle anything more in the export and recoding process without loss of quality. This is what I mean by quality loss.Originally posted by chanff8:Personally I prefer DV, or rather miniDV since miniDV is smaller in size but same quality. It is just right for VCD quality.
When transferring to your PC, the quality is not lost, but the footages from miniDV or DV tapes can be rather huge, ranging to few gigs of data for a few minutes of footages. The quality of the video data is similar to the original footages. Quality loss occurs AFTER you export your video from the video editing software into other formats. Ways to sustain the video quality is to export the finished product back into miniDV or DV tapes, or you can export it as uncompressed format (also known as lossless).
If you are doing proper film productions, I strongly recommend miniDV or DV. HDD and DVD is more for watching on PC type of videos.
As for a method of exporting back to your DV tape, it will greatly reduce the meaning and purpose of a home-made video. It can be very troublesome to keep buying new tapes and label old tapes and bring them all together with your DVCam and cables to your friends's house if you want to show them some of your own movies.
Anyway, I am with MiniDV and my Mac Server together with Apple Final Cut can give me qualities matching mediacorp -
Huh? Since when did MiniDV supports 35 frames per second? I used Final Cut and MiniDVs in sch and I've never used more than 25 frames per second.Originally posted by chenc:Oh i see what you mean. Theres a point. But a MiniDV or DV can record pictures of 35 frames per second. With a non-professional processing machine, 25 frames is recommended as the machine is unlikely to juggle anything more in the export and recoding process without loss of quality. This is what I mean by quality loss.
As for a method of exporting back to your DV tape, it will greatly reduce the meaning and purpose of a home-made video. It can be very troublesome to keep buying new tapes and label old tapes and bring them all together with your DVCam and cables to your friends's house if you want to show them some of your own movies.
Anyway, I am with MiniDV and my Mac Server together with Apple Final Cut can give me qualities matching mediacorp
Anyway, the export to tape is meant as a backup. Not usually used for presentations unless you are entering some competition such as School Video Awards which requires you to submit your videos in MiniDV tapes. VCD/DVDs work well for viewing purposes.