[olug] DVD Camcorder and Linux

[Adam Lassek]

Having recently tried to edit a video project in iMovie, I am
compelled to add the caveat that iMovie works great ONLY when it is
the only program you use. If you are trying to do anything with this
video on another platform, finding a compatible video format that
works on both Mac and PC is next to impossible. Apples tend to only be
compatible with themselves.

On 3/26/06, Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> Want easy to use, fast, and inexpensive software?  Good old iMovie/iDVD
> on the mac.  For the money, it does not get any better than that.  Yes,
> I am biased but it has proven itself over the years AND Pete did a
> presentation last month at the gnmug meeting that was wonderful!  Just
> my thoughts...
>
> I also have a Panasonic 3CCD based camera, pv-gs65 I think, that has
> been really good to me.  Has a 1 Megapixel camera built-in to boot.  8)
> It is Firewire based but I bought a mobo with FW built-in along with my
> macs.
>
>
> Craig Wolf
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> >>> "Daniel Linder" <dan at linder.org> 03/26/06 3:15 PM >>>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, March 26, 2006 13:42, Robert Alan Jacobs wrote:
>
> >> I have a 5 year old Sony Handycam that uses "Digital8"
> tapes and
>
> >> it works well.  The taped are about $8 each and hold about
> 30-45
>
> >> minutes.  It has a firewire port (Sony calls it iLink I think)
> and I
>
> >> have used it with both Windows XP and Linux and it works well.
>
> >>
>
> >
>
> > No firewire port here; contributes to why I find it important to be
> able
>
> > to pull the video off the camera, edit it if I choose to on my
> system,
>
> > and then burn it to DVD for distribution.
>
>
>
> The good thing is that an add-in FireWire pot was only $25-30 at DIT
> five
> years ago -- probably dropped since then.  I think I have also seen
> some cameras with a USB 2.0 port (~480Mbit/sec) so that might be another
> option now.
>
>
>
> >> If I were in the market today I'd look at the camcorders that
> write
>
> >> directly to the 3" DVDs.  I don't trust tapes over a few
> years
>
> >> and at least the DVD would be readable by a computer if/when the
> camera
>
> >> dies.
>
> >
>
> > Yeah.  I'm not really interested in tapes at all (for these reasons)
> -
>
> > though the reviews I've read seem to indicate that the picture
> quality
>
> > you get from tape is much better than what you get going to mini
> DVDs.
>
>
>
> The quality of the image should depend entirely on the CCD in the camera
> (and to a lesser part, the firmware doing the MPEG video/audio
> compression).  If the CCD is high resolution and the lens is of good
> quality, the medium it's saving to won't matter any -- a "bit"
> on a digital tape or DVD is the same value of "1" or
> "0" nomatter how you read it. :)
>
>
>
> Bringing this back to a Linux question... :)  Has anyone played with
> Cinerella or other digital video editing software under Linux in a
> while?  When I played with it 2-3 years ago it was stable but slow
> and quite complex to start out on.  The Microsoft "Movie
> Maker" software was just about opposite: easy to get started,
> reasonably fast at editing, but I had to save about every five minutes
> or
> it would die a horrible death.  Are there any other options out there
> for us weekend movie producers?
>
>
>
>
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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