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Posted by Jim S on 01/07/07 07:25
"Mike Kujbida" <kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote in message
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> maks71@gmail.com wrote:
>> I am in market for digital cam corders and Have following questions
>> regarding DVD Camcorders. Will appreciate your inputs.
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>> 1) How bad/good(noticable) are seek time delays.. e.g. I took few
>> minutes of video then either switched off the camcorder or reviewing
>> the video in playback mode. How long DVD players takes find the next
>> recording position? How long are these delays in SONY/ Canon brands?
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>> Is there any other negatives of DVD players besides compatibilty on
>> normal DVD players etc?
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>> Thanks in advance for your help.
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>> Mak.
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> IMO, DVD camcorders should never have been allowed to come to market.
> If all you ever want to do with it is shoot and archive, be my guest.
> If you any thoughts of doing editing though, buy a miniDV camcorder
> instead
> and save yourself a lot of grief.
>
> Mike
However, it's still possible to satisfactorily edit video that is not on
miniDV, I've just done some editing from video taken on the memory card of a
friend's digital still camera. The results were surprisingly good for
viewing on a relatively small screen. But not so good if you want to project
the film on to a 100 inch screen with a video projector. Even my miniDV
(once edited and put on to a DVD) doesn't go too well on very large screens,
it's not as good as commercial DVDs, for example.
People say that you need to use miniDV for the best results, but they then
go and make a DVD of their film and compress a 12 gig file down to 4 gig.
After all, it's convenient to make a DVD of your results so that you can get
the benefit of chapters etc. But to get the full benefit of miniDV, IMHO,
after editing, you need to make an avi file, not an mpg file. As soon as you
make an mpg file for use on a DVD, you have compressed your video
considerably, so the final result wouldn't be much better than editing video
that was taken on a DVD camcorder.
And then if you want to play your avi file back, you need to connect your
computer or your camcorder to your TV, because your DVD player doesn't
recognise avi files. So there are some advantages to using DVDs for showing
your movies, particularly for home use and with screens no larger than, say,
32"
I guess when we all get high definition camcorders and blu ray discs and
recorders, then there probably won't be a need to compress the video so that
it fits on the DVD. But in the meantime, I can't see much wrong with DVD
camcorders for people who are not wanting to project the results on to very
large screens!
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