question about DVD camcorders

[Jeanne Wilcox]

Has anyone used the newer camcorders that record to a hard drive?  My understanding is that the video can be downloaded via USB to a hard drive on a computer.  This sounds great, although I am worried about not having something like a mini DV for a permanent archive.  I was thinking of keeping the archive files on a server that is backed up regularly, and then keeping the working copy on a series of compact hard drives that connect to a computer via USB.  Thoughts?  Have others been thinking about this?

Jeanne Wilcox
Arizona State University
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MJ Wilcox
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Sent: Thu Jun 15 05:52:47 2006
Subject: Re: question about DVD camcorders

Dear Info-CHILDES, Yvan, and Misha,
    Internal mikes are never going to be as good as external mikes.   
The noise on a miniDV camera is not the only issue, although it is a  
factor.  It is just that the internal mikes are typically not very  
good.  I should add that digital taperecorders that record to flash  
memory do not have a motor noise issue at all, since nothing is being  
transported.  I have found that mike built in to the Edirol digital  
recorder is actually the first internal mike that seems acceptable.
    Please please don't record to the DVD format, if you plan to do  
further analysis of your data.  It is a highly proprietary format.   
Someday, we will probably be able to "crack" the code for the DVD  
format in terms of linking to programming, but who knows when?

--Brian MacWhinney