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capturing footage with cheapo camera
Hello,
I want to capture a lot of tape(MDV). But i dont want to use my Canon xl2 for this, because the of the heads.
I want to use a cheap handy cam, to capture all my tapes.
Will it affect the quality of the footage? Because the footage i have are shot pretty good.Need advice on this.
The camera is a cheap simple sony handycam…model doesnt mather
FCP Studio 5.0
MacPRo quad core. OSX
Firewire to capture…THANKS
T.Peace
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3 Replies
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This makes perfect sense – since you’re going firewire/digital it’s just data, so if you experience dropouts, etc they should be major and noticeable, but that would be an alignment issue and not a “quality compromise” per se.
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Since you are capturing data over FireWire there is no playback quality difference between el-cheapo and your XL2.
Lee Berger
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I have seen some cheepo cameras only play back the tapes that they recorded, most likely this is because the cheeper heads become misaligned more easily.
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