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SWMBO was desirous of something to record every movement of the soon to be arriving addition to the family. I was indifferent, but desirous of a quiet life....

We've ended up with an HD camcorder - the HV20. It uses tapes, which seems a bit primitive to me, but there you go.

My two part question is fairly simple. Anyone use these things? And if so, what do you use to rip them to your HDD and edit down the 000's of hours of useless crap she's going to film into 5 minutes that are vaguely interesting?

Oh and how many terabytes of NAS should I plan for?
 
Re: Anyone use as HD Video camera?

I use lots of them, but they are much larger than yours and use a different interface. However they also use tape. HD video tape is not like old VHS analog tapes. They are digital, so the information being recorded is no different than the data on your hard drive once transfered.

You should be able to plug the camera into your computer via firewire. If your operating system does not recognize the camera, you may need to install special software that should have come with the camera. This is not uncommon with HD cams.

One thing about HD, it records things in extreme detail. Keep that in mind if you decide to record the "magic moment". There's a reason they don't sell adult films in HD. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif
 
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I have a firewire interface on the PC. I was actually more wondering what software is preferred once the image is up on the HDD for editing.
 
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I don't have any experience with the current crop of home editing software, especially for HD. Sorry! If you down-convert to standard NTSC it will edit faster, require less hard drive space and the software will be cheaper. But you lose the detail that makes HD great.
 
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But then that negates the point of having a house full of 1080 line tvs /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

I guess I'll just have to research the old fashioned way - by repeating 3 times: Google is my friend, Google is my friend, Google is my friend...
 
Re: Anyone use as HD Video camera?

Funny that Google is now old-fashioned! Oh, how times have changed. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
Re: Anyone use as HD Video camera?

For editing videos, I like using Sony Vegas and Sony DVD Author (Sony Vegas). I've used Adobe Premiere in the past, and in the early days (mid/late 90s) I thought it was good. However, within recent years I've changed my mind and ~really~ like using Sony Vegas. It has a little bit of a learning curve, especially if you've never used a NLA Video Editor before, and it's kind of "pricey". However, once you get the hang of it there's nothing you can't do with the video, and you'll be hard pressed to find a tool that is as powerful at it's price point.

As far as your NAS needs go.... how much money you got? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
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Premiere is a bit of a dog. Vegas used to be really good and simple, but it looks like it was bought by Sony unless this is a different program under the same name (used to be called Vegas Video). No idea if they've botched it up or not. I'm not typically a fan of Sony's software.
 
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Vegas the same software Steve. Sony bought it. From using the various versions released (before and after the Sony buy out) over the passed couple of years, I think they're (Sony) doing a good job with it. They even give you the option for "distributed" encoding of videos. Though, I'm not too fond of their licensing of using said technology. Still, splitting the encoding process for a 1080p HD video stream between 2, 3, 4, or more computers is a LOT better than doing the encode on 1... Vegas is still waaaay better than Premiere /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif

I just wish they would release a 64-bit version w/ 64-bit codecs
 
Re: Anyone use as HD Video camera?

Steve_S said:
Keep that in mind if you decide to record the "magic moment". There's a reason they don't sell adult films in HD. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif
Click to expand...

Yeah, Alan, please PLEASE plan on waiting until "after the fact".

I could tell horror stories. Just... horror stories. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif
 
Re: Anyone use as HD Video camera?

I've seen Alien (when it bursts forth).
Once was enough - don't need to recreate it /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
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alana said:
I've seen Alien (when it bursts forth).
Once was enough - don't need to recreate it /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
Click to expand...
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif ROFL! sorry... I can't stop laughing at that! lol
 
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