[MacDV] Best way of saving large quantity of interviews

[Tim Selander]

You didn't give quite enough information to give good advice 
(like, are the interviews for the kids to take home? Stored at 
school? Need to look good? etc.) but assuming this is for 
research, and not for kids to take home to their families, I'd 
use a little white board, write the kid's name on it. Hold it in 
front of the camera and roll the tape. Ten seconds later pull the 
white board away to show the kid, and let the interviewer start 
asking questions. Two interviews per miniDV tape, no copying or 
dubbing (or editing) needed. Two hundred miniDV tapes shouldn't 
take up more than 3 shoeboxes worth of storage space.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan


Susan Weiss wrote:
> I am working with a teacher who has a project to interview with a video 
> of each interview for 400 children. The interviews are about 15 -25 
> minutes each.  The only editing is just to make sure the beginning says 
> the child name.  We are using a Sony camcorder with MiniDV.   At the 
> present time, we are making DVD's by combining at least 12 interviews on 
> one DVD by using a simple DVD recorder/burner. We never save anything to 
> a hard drive.
> This is time consuming since you have to spend the time to send it the 
> DVD recorder.
> I am looking for a better solution.
> option #1: So far, it was suggested that we purchase a camcorder that 
> will make mini DVD automatically.   For each student there will be a 
> mini DVD.   No one has to spend the time switching the tape to a DVD. 
> The disadvantage is that nothing can be edited and there has to be 400 
> mini dvds which will have to be filed for each child.
> 
> option #2:  Buy a camcorder which has an internal hard drive, edit it on 
> the camcorder and then send to a dvd.  This eleminates the wait between 
> the interviews and hopefully will allow chapters after each interview.
> 
> Otion #3 continue what we are doing and paying someone to edit and switch.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on a better way of organizing all these 
> interviews in a timely manner.   If we can have to pay for someone to 
> switch the interviews we have the money to buy the camcorder for either 
> option #1 or #2.
> 
> Susan Weiss
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