Digital Camera (?)

[LAmind]

First off, i DON'T have a digital camera. Second, I'll probably getting one in Febuary, that's when my birth day is. Anyways...

Right now, when me and my friend make a movie, we use a 8mm (NOT film)camera, we edit it on Adobe Premiere on my computer, and then we transfer/copy our finished work to a VHS tape. Needless to say the quality is pretty crappy.

My friend told me that if you have Digital Video camera what you can do is this:

1) Copy all your clips to computer and edit them together to your liking, just as you would do normally.

2) When your whole project is finished and everything is edited just transer/copy the whole thing BACK ONTO the Digital camera. So that you can watch your whole film from the camera.

3) Then just hook up the DV to your VCR and copy straight from DV to VHS, and you'll get perfect DV uality on VHS.

Acctually now that I think of it, it sounds totaly logical, I don't know why I never thought of this, but can you really do this?

-Ivan

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[Brewski]

From what I`ve read, your friends are tottaly correct!

Later,
Brewski.

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[LAmind]

Tears of joy are running down my face.

-Ivan

[MatJimMood]

You have to make sure that the camera you get has both dv in and out and you have to get a dv capture card

[Littlerich]

Basically, as long as the DV camera you get has a Firewire connection, then this will work.

Another option (Although an EXPENSIVE option) is to get a DV-VCR (Basically, a VCR that takes DV tapes), and connect that to your PC.
This is how it is set up at the TV station where I work.



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[Nigel]

Let me make a suggestion--make your DV copy your master(avoid playing it as much as possible, MiniDV does not hold up to well). Then I would make your VHS copies off the computer--make a lot of them before you delete your files. This way you avoid a lot of wear on the camera and on the DV tapes. Also, use only virgin tape stock. So don't use the tapes from the field to keep you master on, also don't use erased tapes. Good Luck

[LAmind]

Nigel, I see what you're saying and it makes sense. But that's what I'm trying to avoid is making VHS copies form the computer. Becasue they just look so bad, quality wise. Camera to VCR is so much better. But you're absolutly correct about wearing down the master tape. So I guess, it's kind of a wierd dillema. Maybe I'll just have to do a lot of testing wiht this. Thanks.

-Ivan

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[Greco]

There is no reason you should get a bad copy by using comuter to vcr. It should be the same quality as the cam to vcr!!

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[LAmind]

When I transfer all the clips to computer and play it full screen as a vidoe file, it looks liek shit, cuz after all, it's computer graphics at work. But a camera is a camera, it's meant for having good quality. So I figure if you can take edit on computer, and out back all the footage into the camera and the quality won't be lost.

-Ivan

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[eddie]

For info the image quality you get when you playback on the computer screen shouldnt have anything to do with the image quality coming out of your VIDEO OUT port.