Digital Camcorders Formats
Digital Camcorder format?
Where is the clever money being spent on digital camcorders nowadays? Is it DVD, mini DVD, SD, Mini DV (whatever that is!) or something else?
and of course HDD!
You’ve got two issues to consider – video format and recording medium. On the format front you’ve got Digital Video (DV), MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and the high def formats.
DV is only lightly compressed so it has the best video quality and is best for editing. Because it needs a lot of storage space you can only record to tape – a MiniDV system. This is what the pros use.
MPEG-2 is the format used on DVDs. It’s highly compressed, so you can use mini DVDs, hard drives or memory cards as the storage medium. The quality of the compression is variable, though it’s getting better, and it’s not a good format for editing. On the plus side, you can access and transfer your video files very quickly, and the technology is seen as being sexy.
MPEG-4 is a more modern format than MPEG-2 and allows higher compression for similar video quality. It hasn’t caught on commercially yet, though it’s being used by some of the cheaper memory card based camcorders. It’s got the same pros and cons as MPEG-2, but more geeky than sexy!
The high def formats are based on MPEG-2, but you can record to tape with some systems. Editing can be a nightmare, though some people think this is a small price to pay for high def!
Where’s the smart money? For me it’s still MiniDV, but I guess high def on hard drive is what a lot of people are aiming for. Longer term I think we’ll see seriously high capacity semi-conductor memory coming on the market, capable of storing lightly compressed high def video. I’m not holding my breath though!
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