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Jim_Gunn · 07-17-2005, 07:23 AM

I have shot some videos in DVCam. It looks exactly the same as mini-DV footage. Especially when encoded for the web, no way possible to discern any difference. The main reasons to use DVCam is if you need to shoot a live event, unbroken without stopping to change tapes after 63 minutes and you spring for the 180 min DVCam tapes to make that happen. And of course DVCam tapes are the way I master long programs, like one of my two hour movies so that it can be converted to other formats like PAL or for bumping up to a larger format for tv broadcast.

07-17-2005, 07:23 AM
Jim_Gunn Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Where The Teens Are Posts: 5,702	I have shot some videos in DVCam. It looks exactly the same as mini-DV footage. Especially when encoded for the web, no way possible to discern any difference. The main reasons to use DVCam is if you need to shoot a live event, unbroken without stopping to change tapes after 63 minutes and you spring for the 180 min DVCam tapes to make that happen. And of course DVCam tapes are the way I master long programs, like one of my two hour movies so that it can be converted to other formats like PAL or for bumping up to a larger format for tv broadcast.