Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 12/09/06 21:38

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:57:47 -0500, Rick Merrill
<rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:


>> It will take ... precisely 1 hour per tape.
>>
>> Your bottleneck is transfer rather than compression on modern
>> machines. AFAIK MiniDV tapes aren't designed to be "read" back faster
>> than that, at least not when using a DV cam connected over firewire.
>> Perhaps somebody here knows a deck to transfer the video faster than
>> realtime.
>...
>
>I record to FS4 over firewire at DV25 speeds (25mbps) and the FS4 (hard
>drive) can play back at 40mbps - so that's a little bit better than real
>time.


OK that's what I was hoping somebody might chip in with.

The obvious question is which playback decks support those delivery
rates ? That's not a man-in-the-street DV cam playing the tape back,
so what would you recommend to speed up the OP's workflow ?

You mentioned it's a hard-drive device, so that stacks up - I was
specifically referring to unedited, straight from tape source materal
(the OP mentioned MiniDV in the subject)

Cheers - Neil
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