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Posted by Rick Merrill on 02/05/07 17:39
Steve M wrote:
> I am considering jumping from tape-based DV cameras to a hard-drive based
> camera. Two things are holding me up:
>
> - the quality - will it be as good as DV?
Most hard drive cameras use MPEG2, and therefore marginally not as good
as DV.
HOWEVER, if you record in DV25 format then of course it is the SAME
quality. One way to do this is with a FireStore-4 hard drive.
> - the file format - will it be compatable with most current editing software
> without conversion (and loss of quality) of some sort?
>
> And yet another question about the way these things work - when I shoot,
> say, 3 shots with the camera at a given session, are those 3 shots saved as
> 3 distinct files, to be copied from the camera HD to my PC?
Depends on the camera, but it really does not matter to the editor.
> Or is there
> another strategy? There being no tape, I assume it is not possible to "back
> up and record over" exisiting footage without some extra steps??
FireStore devices have 6 second Retro record!
> I would love to hear of your experiences with these things as it relates to
> the questions above. Thanks much,
> Steve
>
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