Camcorders Minidv Vs Dvd
Camcorders: DVD vs MiniDV?
What gives better quality footage, MiniDV or DVD camcorders?
I’m mostly worried about quality of footage and not whichever is more convenient to use or more cutting edge.
MiniDV.
Think of it this way; MiniDV is roughly 13 GB/hour. A regular DVD holds 4.7 GB of data. It’s a different compression standard, and DVD is crushed more than DV is. Therefore, DV gives the better quality. Generally speaking about video, in regards to file size…the bigger, the better.
How many professional camcorders use DVD? I can’t think of any. Some DV camcorders are often used for professional jobs, though.
DVD uses “interframe” compression, in which the data of most frames has some reliance on data in other frames. Therefore, if you remove some frames in editing, it can affect the quality of others. Think of it as a chain-link fence; when you remove a link, the fence still holds up, but it sags a bit at the point where you removed the link.
DV uses “intraframe” compression, in which each frame is compressed independently of all others. So, if you remove frames in editing, other frames are unaffected. This is more like a picket fence; remove a picket, and the other pickets are still standing the same way they did before.
With ALL other factors being equal, DV comes out on top. It might take a little longer to capture, but I’d stick with it.
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