(This isn't really related to the DVX specifically)
I was talking to my friend the other day who just returned from a "film camp" (we are both high school students) where he made a documentary. I asked him what camera they used, but he didn't remember the model, so I asked him what they shot it on. He said DV. Thinking, "No crap," I asked him again what they shot it on. He said DV again. I replied by asking if they used miniDV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, etc. He said that they used DVCAM, but that "that was the same thing as DV." He told me that "on a real set" DVCAM is called simply "DV" and that miniDV, DVCPRO, etc would be called by their specific names. I had never heard of this before, and began to question the camp, but he insisted that this was the truth. Has anyone heard of this terminology before, as I certainly haven't. Isn't DV just "Digital Video"/ a codec or am I missing something?
I was talking to my friend the other day who just returned from a "film camp" (we are both high school students) where he made a documentary. I asked him what camera they used, but he didn't remember the model, so I asked him what they shot it on. He said DV. Thinking, "No crap," I asked him again what they shot it on. He said DV again. I replied by asking if they used miniDV, DVCAM, DVCPRO, etc. He said that they used DVCAM, but that "that was the same thing as DV." He told me that "on a real set" DVCAM is called simply "DV" and that miniDV, DVCPRO, etc would be called by their specific names. I had never heard of this before, and began to question the camp, but he insisted that this was the truth. Has anyone heard of this terminology before, as I certainly haven't. Isn't DV just "Digital Video"/ a codec or am I missing something?