Does anyone in here have a hard drive video camera?

[michaels]

I was in BB and they had a 30gb Sony that was also hidef(1080i). How good do these work?

 

[Lonyo]

Well, as you take the video, it records it to the hard drive. Much like a different camera would record to a tape, disc, or memory card. That's basically how they would work.

 

[mugs]

30 gb is not a lot, especially with HD video. A 1 hour DV tape is ~25 GB. Video cams with HDDs usually record in MPEG-2 though, so it's compressed. That's not necessarily good if you want to edit the video, but it makes it easy to put it on a DVD.

 

[pkme2]

JVC announces hard drive camcorder

This camcorder is quite unique, but until they have the quality of the JVC GR-HD1, I would wait for the obvious upgrade.

Imagine a tapeless JVC GR-HD1. Best of 2 worlds. No more tape handling and longer continuous shoots, better quality movies, quality downloads and transfers, no dirty tapeheads,plus removeable hdds, maybe.

The serious video/moviemaker's dream for futureworks.