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Thread: What Type of Digital Camcorder Should I Buy |
    
New member Username: Dnamertz
Post Number: 1
Registered: Dec-07
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| Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 11:12 am: |
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I want to get a digital camcorder. The 8 year old camcorder we have now is not digital, and one thing I want is to be able edit video, and easily send video electronically.
But I'm reading about the different formats I read that when editing video from disc-based camcorders and camcorders with hard-drives you get "artifacts in the edited recording because of the compression". How prevelant of a problem is this, and does this also happen with camcorders that use memory cards/memory sticks?
The digital camera I use now takes videos nicely and there is no problem editing, I just want a comcorder dedicated to video.
It sounds like editing with a MiniDV is better, but if you have to upload it in real-time I'm not sure if I want that. |
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New member Username: Video99
Plymouth,
Devon
UK
Post Number: 1
Registered: Dec-07
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| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 03:13 pm: |
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Dan
For the best quality, miniDV is the way to go. Hard disk / memory card / DVD camcorders use MPEG2 or similar compression which is not ideal for editing. Yes you can get artifacts, lip-synch errors and inaccurate edit points with compressed video file formats.
The real-time upload to a computer really is a very small price to pay. You run the tape to computer which it captures as DV AVI format, which is a lightly compressed format and will edit cleanly with affordable software such as Pinnacle Studio 11.
Regards,
Colin
www.video99.co.uk |
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