HDV can look really, really nice, even though it is an mpeg variant. Also, you can always make an mpeg from the full quality version, but not the reverse. Not to mention, mpeg doesn’t handle frames the same way video does, and if you plan on getting into any kind of VFX tracking or compositing, you really want a stable frame format with as much color information as possible. If you compare that to mpeg2 file sizes, even highly compressed, mpeg2 still falls short in delivering all the information. All you need to compare is this…if you capture dv footage via component through a breakout box at 10-bit uncompressed, you get file sizes around 1 gig/ minute (I’m not talking firewire’s lossy dv compression, even though that stilll looks better). True, technically speaking though, all digital video by nature is compressed one way or another once you feed it into a computer. If its compressed, it isn’t full quality.
MINI DV BACKUP COMPUTER DRIVE 1080P
That might be a tad cheaper than a memory card one and still have higher quality.ĮDIT2: altho, those cheapo memory card only units from the likes of Aiptek run 1080p MPEG-4 for $200… not bad, I’d say. But if you’re putting together a reel to show a hiring manager, it never hurts to knock off a few socks with lots 'o pixels!ĮDIT: oh, yeah, there are camcorders that record Hi-Def to miniDV, too. A lot depends on your final target audience… if its those postage-stamp youtubers, then don’t bother with HD.
But the HD footage would certainly look better when compositing blender stuff over it. Also, I would recommend one of the newest SD memory card camcorders that record Hi-Def footage directly to a chip in one of the new hi-def recording formats (like HDV or AVCHD or some similar MPEG-4 format) over a Standard-Def HDD camcorder, but that’s getting pretty pricey. However, I’d also recommend a newer HDD camcorder over miniDV for similar reasons. if you’re having to do any postprocessing of your footage. I’d recommend miniDV over DVD anytime, esp.
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