Canon Camcorders Professional
Question about MiniDV camcorders and video transfer?
I was wondering how MiniDV camcorders work when it comes to transferring footage to PC.. how long does it take? does it transfer a lot faster then the play time? Iike how long does it take per minute does it run the tape in like a FF to transfer or what? Also.. how do the clips go in does it separate each clip into it’s own file somehow or is it all one big video so u have to cut all the videos on the computer or what? I’ve only used SD and HDD I’ve never used MiniDV so Idk how they work.. I was looking at professional camcorders but they’re all MiniDV! like the Canon XH-A1 HD & Canon XL2.. how do they do it? I would think they’d all want hard disk and what would be the advantage of using tapes? plz help thx!
Mini dv is still the best format (my opinion) It transfers to you pc at real time 10 Min’s = 10 Min’s. most people I know also use tapes to archive there footage, (back it up), say you have a 10 min piece of video and you capture it onto you computer edit it and put it back onto a tape, then you use the edited video again from your archive tape and edit it again then put it back on your tape, do this 10 times you will loose a little quality but not much. one good reason for mini dv.
yes the files are big 5 min’s about 1 gb of disk space, i normally divide the footage into 10 gb files a little easier to handle, then add it to my editing package as and when needed (premiere) but sure if you want to you can have it as one big file but 50+ gb is a real lump to have. Have used both xl1 and xl2 even now i think they will beat most SD, HDD camcorders. If the worst does happen and you damage your tape you can recover most of it.
I also use my laptop to capture directly from the camera saves time, but only on pretty static locations.
as you said “I was looking at professional camcorders but they’re all MiniDV!” there must be a reason for that.
good luck
RR
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