100% PC editing vs a deck

John!@#

John!@#

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I was looking at a Panasonic DV2000P
I'm new to this and assumed I could, with a 300 gig hard drive copy the video from the cam to the PC via firewire and once it's in the PC do all my editing there with Adobe Premiere, then once I got what I wanted, burn it to DVD.
So why go to the expense of a deck?
I'm not saying there isn't a reason, I'm asking?\.
Thanks, John
 
the deck is more reliable. VTR decks (in the camera) i think are designed for recording mostly. not so much for playback. the deck is purpose built to be a playback/recording workhorse.
 
People use a deck if the shooter isn't the editor, or to save wear and tear on the camera when digitizing. Your average person has no use for a deck, a cheap camera works just as fine for digitizing footage as a $2000 deck.
 
And since my origanal 'shoot' was done on a dvx100b, copying to the cheaper cam won't lose any quality, since that stage is just 'bits and bytes', ones and zeros, right? I mean the analog was digitized with the good cam and copying data is no biggie? yes?
Thanks.
 
I mean I won't lose resolution copying tape to tape.
It either reads the data or it doesn't. This is digital! Yes?
 
If video is shot on the DVX in 24p or 24pA, and the tape is placed into an el-cheapo miniDV cam, will that camera play it so you can do the firewire out?
 
yes it doesn't matter what frame rate or what camera for DV. DV is a standard and no matter what frame rate it was recorded as it's laid down to the tape at 29.97 for NTSC.
 
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