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ahofle:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 29, 2009, 09:52:24 am ---
Well, the minidv camera plays back at pretty good quality, so you have to be able to transfer it pretty near that as well since it has a firewire port. I just haven't quite figured it out yet. You're right about drivespace, though, it's like a gig a minute raw.
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Are you talking about miniDV tapes? You can just connect the camera with the firewire cable and use the built-in 'Windows Movie Maker' to capture the entire tape in raw DV format (use HDVSplit for HDV). An hour of HDV/DV video is about 12 GB (not a GB per minute). It's a pretty painless process unless you want to make a DVD with menus etc. With this player, you don't need to bother with that though. I actually like the tapes because they practically last forever and the HDV/DV format is higher quality than the SD card/miniDVD based formats.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ahofle on June 29, 2009, 10:21:44 am ---Are you talking about miniDV tapes? You can just connect the camera with the firewire cable and use the built-in 'Windows Movie Maker' to capture the entire tape in raw DV format (use HDVSplit for HDV).
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I'll have to look at Windows Movie Maker. Probably one of those parts of Windows I have always ignored. It does feel like Premiere would be the tool to use for maximum results, though, just based on what it is.
--- Quote ---An hour of HDV/DV video is about 12 GB (not a GB per minute).
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The raw AVI that Premiere was capturing into was definitely around a gig a minute. I remember shelving the project when I was figuring it out because I only had 75gig to play with at the time. That was the initial capture, though, and I'm sure later processing would have brought it way down.
Can't say I have any intention of buying more hardware to play back video. We haven't made the leap to HD in my house. ;D
ahofle:
Are you sure you weren't doing an analog capture (would require something like a capture card) to raw uncompressed file? A DV capture is nothing more than copying the 'bits' that are on the tape to your computer sequentially. It shouldn't be that big. You also don't need an expensive application for it since it's not doing anything quality-wise.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: ahofle on June 29, 2009, 10:57:21 am ---Are you sure you weren't doing an analog capture (would require something like a capture card) to raw uncompressed file? A DV capture is nothing more than copying the 'bits' that are on the tape to your computer sequentially. It shouldn't be that big. You also don't need an expensive application for it since it's not doing anything quality-wise.
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I was doing a capture via firewire. As far as I could tell that's all that is available with this camera. Never saw anything in the documentation that referred to any sort of copy process. All of the crappy software that came with the camera was video CD capture stuff. It's a Sony but the model number is escaping me and I don't have access to it at the moment (might be this one).
shardian:
Pulled the trigger on this player with my saved up amazon gift card cash from my CC.
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