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Posted by Jim S on 01/07/07 21:32
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
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>> 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.
>
> You must have a pretty crappy miniDV camcorder, then. Commercial DVDs
> have a data rate limited to under 10 megabits per second, whereas DV-25
> (which is the standard use by miniDV) has a data rate 2.5 times as great.
I don't think Sony would like my 3.0 megapixel miniDV handycam referred to
as "crappy"! The point I was making is that, to get the full benefit of the
miniDV format, it is best not to substantially compress your video so that
it will fit, for example, on to a 4.7gig DVD. I think most users would agree
that there is a difference in the quality of a movie that is played direct
from an avi file, compared with a movie that is played from a DVD after
compressing the avi file substantially.
Nevertheless, many miniDV camcorder users are happy to compress their video
substantially and watch it from DVDs, so top end DVD camcorders that also
produce video on DVDs might also be acceptable to such people. For example,
see the review of this DVD camcorder:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Panasonic-VDR-D300-Camcorder-Review.htm
New camcorder buyers might also find this article to be helpful:
http://www.easycamcorders.com/content/Beginners-Guide.htm
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