Backup Recording
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Mike_Donis
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Re: Backup Recording
Not having tried it, I know it works on paper. Digital 8 is digital, so the picture will be the same quality, the issue becomes the strength of the tape itself: Hi8 tapes aren't as strong as MiniDV. But for a back-up they should do the job.
24P modes will work because they're being relayed to tape in 60i anyways.
What's this back-up mode though? I haven't heard of it...
Not having tried it, I know it works on paper. Digital 8 is digital, so the picture will be the same quality, the issue becomes the strength of the tape itself: Hi8 tapes aren't as strong as MiniDV. But for a back-up they should do the job.
24P modes will work because they're being relayed to tape in 60i anyways.
What's this back-up mode though? I haven't heard of it...
Re: Backup Recording
..the other recording device must be a DV device.. the digital 8 camera will not recognize a DV stream.. so the answer is : no it cannot be done.
unless you want to dub it via an analog composite or s video connection. which is a big loss in quality, and pretty useless for 24p editing as it wuld have no timecode concurrent with theoriginal digital data.
..the other recording device must be a DV device.. the digital 8 camera will not recognize a DV stream.. so the answer is : no it cannot be done.
unless you want to dub it via an analog composite or s video connection. which is a big loss in quality, and pretty useless for 24p editing as it wuld have no timecode concurrent with theoriginal digital data.
Barry_Green
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Re: Backup Recording
Actually Digital8 is a firewire/dv compatible format. It is for all intents and purposes a DV camera, but it doesn't use miniDV tape, it uses 8mm or Hi8 videotape.
So yes, theoretically it should work perfectly.
Actually Digital8 is a firewire/dv compatible format. It is for all intents and purposes a DV camera, but it doesn't use miniDV tape, it uses 8mm or Hi8 videotape.
So yes, theoretically it should work perfectly.
Barry_Green
Moderator
Re: Backup Recording
Yeah, it was another attempt by Sony to create a proprietary format. They saw the rampant success of DV, and they had all these 8mm camcorder engines already built, and they thought... hey, why not record DV on an 8mm tape? We could call it "Digital8", and we'll make cruddy cameras that we can sell really cheap, and we'll be the only manufacturer, and everyone will ditch DV and move over to us!
Flop.
The one nice thing Digital8 does is it does an on-the-fly transcode from 8mm or Hi8 to DV, so you can put an analog 8mm tape or hi8 tape in the camera, hit "play", and it'll stream a DV-compatible signal out the firewire.
Yeah, it was another attempt by Sony to create a proprietary format. They saw the rampant success of DV, and they had all these 8mm camcorder engines already built, and they thought... hey, why not record DV on an 8mm tape? We could call it "Digital8", and we'll make cruddy cameras that we can sell really cheap, and we'll be the only manufacturer, and everyone will ditch DV and move over to us!
Flop.
The one nice thing Digital8 does is it does an on-the-fly transcode from 8mm or Hi8 to DV, so you can put an analog 8mm tape or hi8 tape in the camera, hit "play", and it'll stream a DV-compatible signal out the firewire.
Mike_Donis
Veteran
Re: Backup Recording
BUT what they have given us is REALLY cheap back-ups at full image quality
BUT what they have given us is REALLY cheap back-ups at full image quality
newtodvx100a
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HRe: Backup Recording
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Hmmm. I was thinking this was only for back up to a hard drive but I guess it would work that way also.
HRe: Backup Recording
Hmmm. I was thinking this was only for back up to a hard drive but I guess it would work that way also.
Re: Backup Recording
The only problem I found with digital-8 cameras is that when you copy from one tape to the other, it doesn't retain the time-code, which is a pain in the arse. It just records it in continuous time code.
Apart from that, you should, in theory, keep all the quality.
All the best
Fidel.
The only problem I found with digital-8 cameras is that when you copy from one tape to the other, it doesn't retain the time-code, which is a pain in the arse. It just records it in continuous time code.
Apart from that, you should, in theory, keep all the quality.
All the best
Fidel.
Barry_Green
Moderator
Re: HRe: Backup Recording
Re: HRe: Backup Recording
[quote author=newtodvx100a link=board=Events;num=1091026954;start=0#9 date=07/28/04 at 12:33:45]Hmmm. I was thinking this was only for back up to a hard drive but I guess it would work that way also.[/quote]
No, the external device control doesn't really have anything specifically to do with hard disks. It was designed to control external tape decks. It only works with hard disks if they understand firewire transport signals (like the nNovia QuickCapture).
Re: HRe: Backup Recording
[quote author=newtodvx100a link=board=Events;num=1091026954;start=0#9 date=07/28/04 at 12:33:45]Hmmm. I was thinking this was only for back up to a hard drive but I guess it would work that way also.[/quote]
No, the external device control doesn't really have anything specifically to do with hard disks. It was designed to control external tape decks. It only works with hard disks if they understand firewire transport signals (like the nNovia QuickCapture).