Firewire/DV Cable

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:29 pm

Codemonkey wrote:

Thanks.
I was actually thinking of trying it. Shame it's not my laptop or It'd be easier.
The drive will be USB 2.0.

So you don't think that after 3 hours the gear might just ditch the job at hand (I'll assume some frame drops are to be expected).

My biggest problem is going to be changing my drive to be NTFS instead of Fat32 (goddamn 4GB limitation makes me cry).

The alternative is to do these recordings onto another camera which uses a 20GB HDD, but I don't think it's as good quality, and the files are hellish to work with.

One problem with almost all cameras that use internal hard drives is that they preconvert the format into an MP2 which means they throw away a lot of useful information. The longer you can stay with a prime format the better your videos are going to be. We record to DV tape but would eventually like to go to portable hard drive but a hard drive that would preserve what is coming off the camera and not down convert it to MP2. Hopefully the price will come down on the portable hard drives that let you do this. We simply cannot afford $1500 for our two cameras at the present time and with the current economic climate.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:22 pm

The footage from my friends camcorder which creates MOD files is naturally less in quality. This was the reason I wanted to use this FW camcorder.
I should be able to get hold of the stuff soon enough and play around.

Greener:
"I wouldn't bank on windows not tanking.
Depends on the system and the setup.

Can you do it in sections?"

Vista on a Core2Duo Sony Vaio laptop. ">_>" springs to mind.

Unfortunately it'll be done in large blocks. We're going to be making some (big) changes in the sanctuary soon ...
- Pews out
- New heating system
- New carpet
- Chairs in
... and myself and some others had the idea to record it, then play back the footage from the transformation at high speed.
It's probably going to take a few days of work.

I know it'll depend on the camcorder drivers, but is there any program that would only grab say 12fps from the camera and save a bit of processing/space ?
I can't imagine it'll ever be needed for use at 1x speed.

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