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Posted by Michael Weinstein on 04/16/06 16:06
On 2006-04-16 00:11:54 -0400, "Bible John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> said:
> I have a nice analog JVC camcorder. I know this camera cost about $700
> back in 2001. Its okay, and certainly captures far superior video
> than any Palm Pilot, cell phone or digital camera. But anyways it uses
> VHS-C tapes, which can be easily played on my VCR with a VHS adaptor.
> Since VHS tapes are fear cheaper than VHS-C, I think I want to give
> people tapes rather than VHS-C tapes. But I am afraid, if I do this,
> and then erase over the VHS-C tape, the quality will deteriate. This
> seems to be what happens in many, but not all tapes. Will VHS-C have
> this effect, or will it not?
>
> Okay on to primary question.
>
> One day when I get the money I will buy myself a digital camcorder that
> will use Mini DV, DVD, or a hard drive.
>
> Does anyone have a digital camcorder and what are your experiences with
> it on your Macs? Can it play full frame video on your Mac? I cant
> imagine the file sizes of such video, and in my case there is no way
> such video would fit on my dinky 30GB hard drive, with only 6GB free on
> my ibook G4. I think I would need to attach my USB 2.x 80GB drive.
>
> With digital tapes, DVD's or hard drives, can you erase and the record
> over without a lowering of quality?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> John
>
> PS- My JVC will work for a while, and I am not in a hurry to replace
> it, but perhaps one day it might be wise to get a smaller digital
> camcorder. I sure do hope the quality of these smaller digital
> camcorders, is camcorder quality, and not lame digital camera video
> quality. My JVC will floor my Kodak anyday for video.
I have a sharp miniDV camcorder. It records 1 hour on a $5 tape or 2
hours in long play mode. It loads into iMovie by firewire and the video
is full screen. I edit it in iMovie and then when I am happy with the
result, I output it back to miniDV with no loss of quality, and store
the tape. Then I use iDVD and make a DVD which plays full screen with
full DVD quality on my computer or television using the ordinary
household DVD player. Forget analog video tape UNLESS your aim is to
distribute it to friends who have only VHS. Then I do what I said and
copy the final miniDV that has come from the computer onto a VHS
directly and give it to the poor technologically stunted relative.
--
Michael | "He's dead, Jim."
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