8 Jul
2009
8 Jul
'09
1:55 a.m.
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:37 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Peter Finnegan wrote:
> ...
>
> I would look for a miniDV camcorder. Those tend to have firewire out,
> and work with uncompressed video.
The video is compressed, but it is a frame oriented compression (ie:
each frame is compressed independently of the others). 5 to 1
compression or so if I remember correctly, and as it is frame by frame
it is much easier to work with than, say, mpeg2.
Sometimes your local big box
-- Fernando
electronics store might have a good deal on an
open box or discontinued
miniDV, as they are going toward direct to SD or flash memory
camcorders.
Hi Peter,
I'll look for the camcorder locally, then on to eBay. Thanks for the tips.
Best,