How is that DV camera that records to DVD?

[Nocturnal]

is that cam any good? i was interested in picking it up. will anymore of these come out anytime soon? will sony make one? anyone have any info?

thanks!

 

[DrumminBoy]

I would wait until the industry has decided on a common dvd writing format before buying anything.

 

[badluck]

Why would you want to record to mpeg2 when the file structure is un-editable / hard to edit? Or, am I just dated and you can edit mpeg2 now??

 

[GRIFFIN1]

You can edit mpeg2, but just means that it will be compressed twice. Avisynth is what I use to edit mpeg2 files. AVIsynth is a small text file that reads the original mpeg2 file and tells your editing software that it is an AVI file.

 

[0roo0roo]

its silly. how many Gigs of storage are on a tape? far more then on a puny dvd. so your video suffers if you go with dvd😛 sad but true. theres no perfect on the fly vbr, dvd r/rw is only one layer, its all screwed up. to have any reasonable recording time i'm sure they lower bitrate on those dvd cams a lot.

 

[badluck]

You can edit mpeg2, but just means that it will be compressed twice. Avisynth is what I use to edit mpeg2 files. AVIsynth is a small text file that reads the original mpeg2 file and tells your editing software that it is an AVI file.

Thanks for the tip. I might give it a try. Since the video is compressed twice, how well does it preserve the mpeg2 quality?

 

[MrBond]

I've seen only one camera that records onto DVD format (Hitachi?). In that case, it recorded onto DVD RAM, which isn't as popular as DVD+/-R/W.

Honestly, what I'd do is buy a standard DV camera and one of those new Panasonic DVD Recorders with Time Shift. You can record directly from a Minidv camera with them, plus you get the ability to record other video sources (TV/VHS) to DVD as well.

You could easily spend ~$1200 on a setup like that, depending on the DV camera you buy. The basic panasonic recorder is ~$550-600. They've got one with a hard drive that retails for ~$1000 as well, but that wouldn't be required for recording from MiniDV