[MacDV] Re: what to get... or rent?

[R B Williams]

I have no issues with picture quality, but tape handling isn't nearly as good. The
transport has to be more carefully aligned for clean playback without digital artifacts
and doesn't stand up very well to shuttling back & forth.

When someone brings in a Digital 8 master, I dub to mini-Dv before even capturing so
that I have a clean timecode.

R.B.

PrintersInc wrote:

> 6/23/04 12:09 PM _ Randumb Video
>
> I've heard Dig8 is not the exact same quaility as miniDV.
>
> > Thanks... for some reason I thought Digital8 was some sort of doodoo...
> > ideally I'd like to get something that will be more useful rather than
> > less. Is D8 equivalent in quality to mini-dv? relative to camera
> > quality and ccd etc...?
> > m
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 02:03  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/23/04 1:00 PM, matblack at mac.com at matblack at mac.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey folks I have a bunch of VHS that I need to convert... Although I
> >>> would prefer to edit rather than straight dump the camera I have does
> >>> not seem to have passthrough. This leaves me with a choice of a) buy a
> >>> cheap camera b) pay to have it transfered (almost $300 for a dump to
> >>> DVD) or c) buy some sort of media converter.
> >>>
> >>> Which makes the most sense in terms of cost/reward? Or would it make
> >>> sense to rent something...
> >>>
> >>> thoughts?
> >>> M
> >>
> >> Answer:  A. (and make sure it does pass-through)  Does Sony still sell
> >> Digital8 cameras?  Those seemed to be the best bang for the buck.  Not
> >> to
> >> mention that the tapes are way cheaper than miniDV.
> >>
> >> - Mark
> >>
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