[Elecraft] Polar Bear #1 Needs Help!

[Dan Barker]

Using the camera's digital to analog curcuitry will work, if quality and
editing are not factors. Usually, one buys a firewire card (or has firewire
built in to the computer), and downloads the video as a digital file (Huge,
about 15G/hour) to the workstation. Then, all the NLE (Non Linear Editing)
is done, transitions and words are added, and a sound track massaged/added.
When the final product is ready, only then will you go to analog for
display. If the final media is digital (EG Email, CD, DVD-Rom), the movie
can stay digital. Only going to VCR or a TV Monitor would you ever need to
convert it to an analog signal. There are quality issues only.

Dan

Oh yes, Firewire is just another networking tool. Parallel, Ethernet,
Serial, USB, Firewire. They all do the same thing, but at different speeds.
Firewire is slang for IEEE 1394 and runs about 400 Mbps. It used to be 4
times the speed of Ethernet. Now, with Gigabit Ether, it's 0.4 times the
speed.

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What's the term firewire mean?
I keep seeing this word when referring to video.
Do you think that if I record from my camcorder into
an external dvd recorder it will work? I plan to just
go out and buy a dvd recorder and input the video and
sound onto a dvd  from my camcorder. Then buy a software package for
WinXP to edit the dvd.
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