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Camcorders: Archive my HD video from flash memory to ?????
VIWEING YOUR VIDEO
by GEO2003 - 10/26/09 3:33 PM In reply to: Archive my HD video from flash memory to ????? by danamoonbeamThe question that was not address directly is:
Would you be able to use a kind of medium to watch it on your TV.
The answer is yes, but not directly from your EXTERNAL 1Terabyte drive.
The external drive will be used to store your Video.
Your Camera according to one post has only a USB connector.
Therefore, you need an External hard drive with USB, regarless if in addition it has other connections.
Unless, your External hard drive has also a mini to full HDMI connecter, you won't be able to see your video on your TV directly from the External.
You would have to burn your video from your external to Blue Ray or DVD downgrading the quality.
Or your can connect your external drive to your current pc and connect the pc to your TV and re-direct the video to play on your TV.
The bottom line is that you most take into account what kind of connectors you have on your pc now or the new one, the external hard drive and your TV.
Depending on the video card of your computer, a 256 megabyte or 512 megabyte or dedicated video RAM can handle two monitors and the video card software can be configured to output the video to your TV.
To simplify.
From External, to your pc, your pc video card configured to output video to your TV.
From External, to Blue Ray disk or DVD, playable on your player, outputting to your TV.
Regards,
Geo
get a Media player
by dpulley17 - 11/7/09 1:07 AM In reply to: VIWEING YOUR VIDEO by GEO2003I have a Canon HV30 HD camera (HDV tape based camera). I transfer my HD video to my 1.5 TB hard drive USB. I have a WDTV HD media player.
You connect your external HD to the player via USB. Then connect player to to tv via composit or HDMI. it work great.
Google the WDTV HD media player. There are also other media players out there.
Good Luck
Archiving
by dpulley17 - 11/7/09 1:23 AM In reply to: Archive my HD video from flash memory to ????? by danamoonbeamI just did a favor for my nieghbor. For the past week, I hooked my Canon HV30 camera up to his computer and transfered all of his AVCHD files to tapes. His back up videos are now HDV and stored on tapes now. We haven't noticed in loss of quality when watching on his 52 inch HDTV. I'll spend a couple of days this week transferring the footage back to is computer in HiDef HDV footage, so he can edit in sony vegas easier. I've always heard that trying to edit avchd was pretty hard even with a quad core computer.
Once the HDV footage is on his computer, he's going to sell is Sony HDR-XR500V ( he just bought about 2 months ago $1200) and buy a Canon HV40 $799.99(a slight step up from mine) and a new new computer.
Do you know anyone with a tape based HD camera? I hope this info can help.
Not ideal
by timhood - 11/7/09 9:58 AM In reply to: Archiving by dpulley17That is an option, but it's not ideal. There was a lossy conversion from AVCHD to HDV and there would be yet another from HDV to DVD or BluRay. Unless it's absolutely not possible, it's best to backup media in its original format and save any conversions for the final output.
OK?
by dpulley17 - 11/7/09 10:55 AM In reply to: Not ideal by timhoodViewing a file from the avchd Sony camera, compared to viewing the same footage (now converted to HDV ) on my Canon, we noticed no difference in quality. Viewing the same file in both formats thru a media player on a 52 inch HDTV, we noticed no difference in quality.
Kinda frustrating for my nieghbor to have a 1200 camera and have to continue to invest money for a computer (tranfer, editing video and producing a SD DVD to share with family and friends), DVDs ( archiving and possible viewing on a Blueray player),external HD's (for archiving and connecting to a media player to view files)and a media player (a little more versitile than the blueray for viewing files). Using HDV is still costly, but he can use his current computer for editing, archive video on miniDV tapes, hook Camera to console DVD player/recorder to transfer video to DVD. He can still buy a external HD with a media player for easy viewing, but the Hard drive dosen't have to be used for his large capacity means for archiving.
Just sayin...
I'm not against acvhd format (i'm actually looking to buy a DSLR that records Avchd), but "alot" of people purchased the cameras (avchd format), and didn't think about archiving,creating DVDs to share,editing along with other needs they might have. So many people are requesting help on just about every forum I go to.
But again , I have nothing against avchd. HDV is just more overall simpler.
its already hdv
by chickenorfish - 11/7/09 10:08 AM In reply to: Archiving by dpulley17if its a hv30 then its already hdv so there would be no loss in quality
That's not what he said
by timhood - 11/7/09 10:23 AM In reply to: its already hdv by chickenorfishThe original poster clearly stated he transferred AVCHD to HDV. I believe the *destination* was the Canon camera. The source material was a Sony camera that stored in AVCHD format.
i was responding to dpulley
by chickenorfish - 11/7/09 4:14 PM In reply to: That's not what he said by timhoodi was responding to dpulley
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