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Got my Sony DCR-SR80 video camera today!

 
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Nov 30, 2006 22:07 |  #1

So I got my DCR-SR80 Camaro today.. its pretty cool, small too.

its got a 60GB hard drive in it, takes 720x420 video (16:9), donno what 4:3 is yet. It takes MPEG2 video, and you can just drag them off the camera to the HD which is nice and easy!

The only thing I noticed is that i see a lot of noise on the screen... blue little dots of noise! :confused: I got to finally try it at 8PM so it was darker, Gonna go try it out tomorrow though.

Anyone else have any Sony video cameras?


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Nov 30, 2006 22:39 |  #2

I have the older Sony video camera which takes the miniDVD tapes. Video is uploaded ot my computer via firewire in AVI format. The bad thing about it is that it takes a lot of disk space. But the good thing is that the video quality is very, very good and easy to work with when editing.

MPEG2, on the other hand, is nice if you don't expecit to do much editing of the video. It takes up less disk space. However, if you do want to do some serious video editing, MPEG2 is one of the worst formats to edit in.


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Nov 30, 2006 22:47 |  #3

PacAce wrote in post #2336828 (external link)
I have the older Sony video camera which takes the miniDVD tapes. Video is uploaded ot my computer via firewire in AVI format. The bad thing about it is that it takes a lot of disk space. But the good thing is that the video quality is very, very good and easy to work with when editing.

MPEG2, on the other hand, is nice if you don't expecit to do much editing of the video. It takes up less disk space. However, if you do want to do some serious video editing, MPEG2 is one of the worst formats to edit in.

oh............:(


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Dec 01, 2006 08:56 |  #4

Sorry, I didn't mean to make MPEG2 sound that bad. It isn't. For the kind of editing most typical camcorder users do, i.e. cut out unwanted sections. trim clips and then splice everything together and maybe add a title and sound/music, MPEG2 is OK. :)


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Dec 01, 2006 13:32 |  #5

PacAce wrote in post #2338101 (external link)
Sorry, I didn't mean to make MPEG2 sound that bad. It isn't. For the kind of editing most typical camcorder users do, i.e. cut out unwanted sections. trim clips and then splice everything together and maybe add a title and sound/music, MPEG2 is OK. :)

haha, im sure its going to me 500x better than my little Olympus digital camera that took 320x240 .MOV quicktime files!!!!!:eek:


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