im in the process of purchasing a camcorder and i wanted to know how many of you have one and has great quality making vids. I borrowed my friends digital 8 740 and once i exported to my cpu the quality was horrible. Thanks

 

I use DV (Sony TRV17) and quality is awesome, limited only by the codec settings when I export from Adobe Premiere. Maybe you're playing uncompressed files and your system isn't fast enough to do that (most home PC's can't play the raw DV file, or uncompressed AVI, even from the hard drive). Try using your video edit software to encode the video at a lower bitrate and/or resolution.

 

well my cpu is a vaio rx680g and i think its more than capable of handling the file. The cam on the other hand when stretched to 640by*** resolution was garbage.

 

I would suggest you stay ahead of the trend if you can andgo with a 3 chip mini dv format. Mini DV will be the best as you can download this to you computer, however, 3 chip will give you the best color and lighting. It is also considered Prosumer. Great to mount in your S for road trips and races too! Heres a link to the one I bought:

http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/s...rfModel=PV-GS70

 

whoa nice camcorder, i see the specs on the still picture capability of 1280x960 with 3 mega pixels and thats great. On the other hand i dont or cant tell how the resolution is when recording and how much it can be stretched on a cpu, since you have one how is it??? Thanks

 

i have a sony trv-33 and man its the greatest camera i have ever owned. the quality on it is better then any dvd i have seen. though the digital stills are only 1.3 mega pixel i never really bought it for that anyways. coolest thing its its completely touch screen.

Hammad

 

The problem I'm talking about is not CPU-based. It is the speed of data transfer from the hard drive or CD-ROM, depending on where you play it from. Like I said, no home PC can handle uncompressed video files.