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Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/16/06 19:18
"fbnewtz" wrote ...
> We are setting up a video site for high school sports news. We are
> recording games to miniDV with various different cameras and will want
> to get a copy of this to our video producer, without giving him the
> original. So what would be the most efficient way to get this over to
> him for editing? We will be wanting to go live with the edited video
> ASAP after the game, so speed is of the utmost importance, with the
> least reduction of quality, of course.
>
> He will be using a mac to edit and produce the videos. We don't want
> to just rip the whole video to the computer because there will only be
> certain plays that are required. Is there a miniDV to miniDV copy
> device that can copy at high speed?
There was a special editing computer system (PC based)
that could capture DV at 4x normal speed, but it was
*very expensive*, priced for the breaking news business.
Else, no real solution to your direct question.
OTOH, it doesn't take much of a computer to capture
DV via Firewire directly during the game. You could
get some older computers that have been replaced with
new models and just run DVIO or some (free) software
on them to directly capture the video to a hard drive.
http://www.carr-engineering.com/dvio.htm
I like using bare hard drives and those USB2 to IDE
"adapter cables" as external storage. Ultra cheap and
effective.
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=CBL
An old 40GB drive would hold the entire game
from one camera. They hardly sell hard drives that
small anymore. I'd go out and encourage my friends
to upgrade their computers/hard drives and donate
the old hardware.
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