Richard Wiggins wrote:
> But keep in mind the issue of preservation.  Unless you are religious
> about making a DVD out of the video on the hard drive, you're going to
> erase it, and then it's gone forever.  With Mini DV or an in-camera
> DVD burner, all you have to do is label it after you shoot it.
> 

Well, for what was described (and for what we do), long term storage 
doesn't seem to be an issue really.  After a few months, the hiring 
cycle seems to be over, and we remove the files from where we allow 
people to get access to them.  And we'd still have to import the video 
anyway, because we need them available on a computer, not having someone 
borrow the one copy on a mini DV or dvd.

(We actually reuse the tapes once it's been transfered.)

> /rich
> 
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Gary Schrock<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> FWIW, we just use a standard Sony miniDV camera.  Personally, I kind of wish
>> the thing would die so we could get one that's hard drive based instead of
>> miniDV, because transferring from tape to the computer is a 1:1 time based
>> operation.  With miniDV set on the longer record time, a standard tape
>> yields 90 minutes of recording, which generally has been fine for the job
>> talks we have.
>>
>>
>> Gary
>>
> 
>