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Digital video cams?

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Gannon

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I'd like to get one what are some recommendations?? Also what kind of codecs do they use? Do they use common ones that can be played on all computers?
 
Can you elaborate on "digital"?

Are you looking for something that records to flash memory, DVD or DV tape? DV gives you the most flexibility IMO. Recording to flash memory limits your recording time and DV tapes are cheaper then flash memory, especially when you buy in larger quantities. Recording straight to DVD is convenient if you don't intend on editing, otherwise, you need to decode the video from the DVD, edit it then encode it again... which means lower quality since you're getting the raw DV.

Consumer grade DV cameras of decent quality can be had pretty cheap these days...
 
well I mean something that is going to record in native formats that I can easily transfer / edit on the PC, how does DV tape work? I know the other two I've never heard of the DV tape format.
 
There are now also HDD cameras. MiniDV tape is probably the best for managing media and editing. Some of the formats (DVD and flash) can use compression schemes that lose quality, especially in Post (editing). Mini-DV is DV-AVI, which is almost completely lossless. In quantity, tapes are $3.50 each and hold the equivalent of 13GB.
 
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