| kamiza103 on 1 Nov 2007 07:39:18 -0000 |
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Maybe a better option would be to borrow a harddrive-based camcorder. That would already save the video in a file format. Easily transfer it over USB and you're done. Mini-DV is good, but it's more of a pain. Having a Firewire port along with a cable is less common than USB, although mini-DV camcorders do have USB interfaces as well. A capture program is needed. Then the video still needs to be compressed and encoded. So, unless editing needs to be done, mini-DV is just more work. Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com> wrote: Other than that you should ask around and see if you can borrow a friend's mini-DV camera, as that's already a digital format you get a nice friendly datastream on the FireWire port and can relatively easily make the data file using any of a huge number of programs.
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