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[_] Camcorder recommendations

Oliver Humpage oliver at watershed.co.uk
Fri Nov 17 13:58:32 GMT 2006

on 17/11/06 13:52, Richard E Moore at richard at juniperblue.com wrote:


> An idea - if you are happy with your existing camera, could
> you take a feed from it into a DVD recording deck and capture to
> DVD instead? Depending on the encoding settings you could get up
> to 4 hours. This should work in theory ;-)

A nice idea, but the thing is I'd like to stream and record at the same
time. So either some kind of fancy firewire splitter is in order, or I'd
have to take the analogue output of the camera into the DVD recorder. Plus
DV->MPEG2 is not always a happy conversion (different grid sizes, iirc).

Oliver.