BRAM 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Hi folks new here I'm thinking about buying a video camera and was looking at them all over the weekend. I was getting confused on all the formats - tape, dvd, hdd - and feel the hdd version might be best and the least fuss. The Sony SR8 100GB one looked good. Anyone any words of wisdom on what might be good for general scenery and also taking out on the snow this winter. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 get mini-dv tape Link to post Share on other sites
Mantas 3 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 i'll second that Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Get the HDD Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 don't do too much video editing do you Thursday? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 Mini dvd tape. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 I went with HDD - So far we have done a fair bit of filming but we are just starting to edit the stuff now. For filming and capturing the HDD made life way easier. Never have to worry about running out of tape or taping over something that you want. Dont have to fastforward or rewind anything to get it in the right place for filming. In Japan DV tapes were cheap, in NZ they are $10 each. Capturing is a simple drag and drop process. I will comment on editing after we have done some more of it. So far its been OK. Most of the problems I have read about will be solved when editing software catches up. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 the cappie returns! Link to post Share on other sites
joshnii 2 Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 I'm looking at them as well at the moment. Those things have gotten seriously small since I last looked. HDD seems a good idea to me. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Do the little tapes record at the same sexy-vision level as the dvd and hdd ones? Tapes just seem so.... old-fashioned. Link to post Share on other sites
Kumapix 0 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 tapes record at a better level than dvds. not sure about the latest hdd ones though Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 tapes are still the best quality. HDDs are the most convenient. Link to post Share on other sites
ausi ski bum 1 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 I want a external lens that I can strap to my Goggeles strap so I dont have to carry the camera to film a run. Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 what about this then? rip curl third eye: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.p...snowboard.phtml Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Hdd and DVD models record in Mpeg2 which is the format DVD's use. On the model I have you can select the bit rate (quality) that it is recorded in. Top quality is 10 mbps, regular is 6 or 7 and low quality is less. I recorded everything in top quality mode which would be good for a short movie but if I want to make a longer movie and want to put it on a single layer DVD then I might have to re-encode it at a lower rate to fit it on the DVD. The audio is recorded in Dolby Stereo which is the slightly tricky bit. Our older version of Premiere Pro didnt like that audio format. It can encode things into that format but the source materiel cant be in that format. I acquired a fairly new version of Premiere Elements and it was no problem. Mini-DV tape records in DV-AVI format. It is considered better but once you make your movie if you want to watch the movie on a DVD player then you have to convert to Mpeg2 anyway. In the next week or two we will have finished a short movie filmed with the HDD camera and will be able to do a direct comparison between movies filmed onto tape and converted to Mpeg 2 and one that was filmed directly onto mpeg 2. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I dunno, things are just so complex nowadays. I remember when.... Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Originally Posted By: scouser I remember when.... My old man had to lug around a huge camera AND the video recorder unit in a case hanging off his shoulder.. we are doing too bad! Link to post Share on other sites
BRAM 0 Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 Thanks, still looking and thinking. Captain Stag, which make/model do you have? Link to post Share on other sites
AustralianPM 0 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 I've got the Sony SR8. Only got it a few weeks ago so still getting used to it and learning how to use it but very happy with the results so far. It's great to not have tapes and the picture is excellent. Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 I got the Panasonic SDR-H250 I took a while to decide not to go Hi-def but in the end I want to put the edited footage on DVD so its just easier to film in the same res as I want to view it in. Link to post Share on other sites
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