Camcorder or converter? --MacDV Digest #2456

[Ted Langdell]

In an educational setting, I'd opt for at least one converter, to keep the
cameras out in circulation with students, instead of doing something that a
converter can do.

If you're also using the camcorder to turn DV into NTSC during editing, it
makes more sense to get converters for your workstations, again to keep the
cameras shooting, rather than being transfer/DV to NTSC devices.

You might also look at getting a dedicated deck or two to handle the
transfer in and out, again, to keep the cameras shooting.

Ted.

(Former ROP Radio/TV instructor)

> From: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 05:29:51 -0800
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: MacDV Digest #2456
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> Message-ID: <008501c3b93c$bf3ba7c0$6405a8c0 at yourm3vezyx8af>
> From: "Neil Poese" <npoese at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Cameras with Playthrough digitizing
> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:28:20 -0500
> 
> Ahh, the TRV900, what a sweet camera that was/is. . . .
> 
> Sure, to my knowledge, any camera that will bring analog in will convert DV
> back out to analog.  With the Sony it's a fairly simple matter of going into
> the menu set-up and basically changing it from "in" to "out." We also need
> to go to VHS more than to convert analog to DV, and my students do this
> several times a week.
> 
> Neil
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DBAFeldman at aol.com>
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:49 AM
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: Cameras with Playthrough digitizing
> 
> 
>> Neil or others,
>> 
>> Can you output to analog with a camcorder with passthrough?
>> 
>> I use my Canopus converter quite often. Not too much for going from analog
> to
>> digital, but it is used frequently to output to analog. Many people still
> ask
>> for a VHS tape. The converter saves me from copying to the camera, then
> again
>> to VHS. My Sony TRV-900 does not have passthrough.
>> 
>> Jamie
>> 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> In a message dated 12/1/03 7:59:20 PM, npoese at earthlink.net writes:
>> 
>> << Although I have an original Sony DA-1 converter, I don't use it
>> 
>> much, since I make sure to get cameras that passthrough, and it seems to
> me
>> 
>> that it doesn't cost that much more to get the whole camera, rather than
>> 
>> just a converter. >>
>> 
>>