hi guys,
i was wondering if anyone knew if there are mini-DV:s that can handle recording over 60min? from what i?ve understood, there are, but that the film is much thinner, thus affecting the quality of the material?
can anyone straighten this out for me? which brands are the best?
grateful for all help!
c.
There are 80-minute DV tapes from Panasonic, but I've been warned against using them. So I've no idea whether they really work OK or not :).
Alot depends upon your camera. I have a crummy Canon MiniDV camera that can take a standard MiniDV tape and use it for 60 minutes or 90 minutes.
There is a picture quality hit on the 90 minutes. I'm not sure if any professional grade MiniDV capable cameras would have this or not.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
I'd say, don't ever record in Long Play mode if you're taping anything serious. If you're lucky it will play back on your camera OK, but it's unlikely that it will play back properly on any other camera.
One of the shorts I edited came from duplicates of the DVCAM masters on LP DV, and we were really lucky that it could be played back on my camera... no other deck we tried ever played those tapes without huge numbers of dropouts. Even on my camera there were shots where we had to work around persistent dropouts.
Yeah, I have trouble capturing in Avid with anything that has been shot in LP mode. I'd also advise against it.
Talking of capture, it also prevented me from using batch capture on my PC. Whenever the camera was in fast-forward/rewind mode it reverted to SP timecode, so the camera would wind to the wrong place, start playing and then the editing software started seeing the LP timecode and get horribly confused (e.g. it would wind to what it thought was 1:00:00 in SP mode and find that when it started playing it was at 1:30:00 in LP mode).
