10-22-2009, 03:24 PM
I was going over the specs of this Sony camcorder but they say nothing about the video format. Is it compressed? If so, what is the format? DV, MPEG-2, H.264? I have heard 8mm tape camcorders have a better quality.
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Hard disk camcorders video quality
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10-22-2009, 04:06 PM
BHPhotovideo has it listed as Resolution: 640 x 340 (VGA)
The Sony website has it listed as SD video, Video Resolution : 720 x 480
10-22-2009, 04:50 PM
All consumer digital video formats are compressed. Mini DV has relatively mild compression but that's for 2 reasons - the tapes are big enough to handle the higher data volume and it's a very old codec and is not very efficient. Higher bitrate makes up for this to give good video quality.
10-22-2009, 05:05 PM
Sony's site does say MPEG-2. But MPEG-2 can be of any quality. I wonder how MiniDV compares.
10-22-2009, 05:12 PM
MPEG-2 is a standard compression/codec format for recording video. It has very little to do with the source resolution of the image sensor or the recorded video.
10-22-2009, 05:40 PM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote: Exactly. So just saying it is MPEG-2 is not an statement on quality.
10-22-2009, 05:49 PM
Assuming the camcorder isn't HD, the image quality of miniDV is superior--all other types use much higher compression (lossy!) levels and do not support editablity. These are informative:
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-350863 http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...msg-190372 http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?4,275...43#2750443 |
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