I've been looking at those hard driver camcorders, too, but I worry about their fragility. Would the hard drives be able to withstand the abuse that I tend to put my camera through? Maybe, maybe not...It's one thing to have a hard drive in an iPod (and of course, a laptop), but a camcorder? N
Those HDD camera could work for vlogging. They record video in mpeg2 which is a pain though - you have to demux it and convert to something else (DV) for editing. This works fine with MPEG Streamclip on a Mac but I haven't found something comparible on a PC. Anyone know of a good solution?
-Verd
Please note that "HDD" and "HDV" are not the same. The original question
is about HDD cameras - Hard Disk Drive, i.e. tapeless cameras. Sony just
announced a new $1000 HDD camera which competes with JVC's Everio line.
This is quite handy because you just copy files instead of capturing from
tape.
I've been producing an online series using Sony's HDV cameras and while it
drives us crazy
in editing (go for a long lunch renders) it has several advantages. There is
more
information for the compressor to work with which appears to make a difference.
I had to
cut some DV 16:9 footage into a
You know after I posted this I was wondering if this was what you
were talking about. DOH!!
I've heard that if you are a Mac user the HDD cams are kind of a
pain in the arse to work with. But I like the idea of a tapeless
workflow. I know that a lot of vloggers have been using a tapeless
workf
Bill, Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated. However, HDD stands for "Hard
Disc
Drive", not High Definition (actually, it is pretty confusing. They really
should have made
more of a differentiation between those two). With an HDD camcorder it's my
understanding that you you don't need any
I tend to be of the opinion that HD is just a little bit of overkill
for a video blog. Mostly because it's very very unlikely that you
would ever post full resolution HD footage on the internet--at least
anytime soon. Given the additional resources needed for a HD
workflow with the end result b
