Re: What about HD Camcorders


"pantsonfire" <a3af257@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:j0jvb5xavb.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 28 2008 2:44 PM, David Ruether wrote:
"pantsonfire" <a3af257@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What exactly to you do with what you record on an HD camcorder? I know
you can play it on an HD TV. But there is no HD DVD recorder or can you
use a Blu-Ray DVD recorder? That seems expensive especially the blank
discs. Or can you transfer your video to a PC and burn HD DVDs? I don't
think that's possible.

Wo for those of you with HD camcorders, how do you save your media?

Off topic (try rec.video.desktop or rec.video.production), but since I'm
also into video, and lately into HD video, here goes. One of the reasons for
buying a tape-based HDV HD camcorder (other than for the superior image
quality compared with DVD/HD/memory-chip recording systems) is that you
can easily record back to tape your edited HD video - and tape is also the
most reliable and convenient long term storage medium for video. HD-DVD
is a dying format, but you can, using some inexpensive video editing programs
save the edited video to Blu-Ray disk (and/or back to tape - or in reduced
resolution, to any other video format you want, even Flash). For a review
of my favorite HD camcorder (a cheap "little wonder"!), see --
www.donferrario.com/ruether/canon_hv20.htm, and for more on editing
programs, see -- www.donferrario.com/ruether/hdv-editing.htm
--
David Ruether

You're right about the OT comment. This was the closest thing on my
group list (I use recgroups.com).

If you use Outlook Express, or similar, they have newsreaders built in...

I am basically trying to know how to get HD video stored on a DVD for
archiving and/or viewing. It doesn't sound cheap or easy at this time.

DVDs should not be regarded as a good archiving medium - the homemade
ones use dye, with all that that implies (dark, cool, dry storage, with the
disks upright - but their life is still unfortunately limited...). Blu-Ray is the
only option for HD disks, now that HD-DVD is going away, though you
can downconvert to standard definition (bleah!) and write DVDs in that (or
write the edit back to a couple of tapes for safety and for showing from
the camcorder, keeping one or two for archiving - or show the edit from
a computer...). I prefer to make multiple copies of edited videos and play
to the TV from the camcorder for showing. If you keep a simple log of
where on the tape each video is, this method is quick and easy...
--
David Ruether
d_ruether@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.donferrario.com/ruether


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