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What format should I digitize mini DV tapes with HDV footage in?

You have a few options for capturing Mini-DV tape. The first and highest quality, but largest size, is to capture it in HDV format (HDV2 is used by most Sony cameras). It is a form of MPEG-2 Part 2 …
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I want to digitise footage from a lot of DV tapes - should I use my camera or buy a tape deck?

There is no reason that your camera should have problems playing back 200 hours of tape and as the signal is digital and was presumably recorded on your camera, there shouldn't be much in the way of quality …
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Recommended Encoding for VHS to Digital to be Followed by Post Processing

DV can also work well as a format since it is designed to maintain pretty good quality in standard definition and is still fairly compressed. That's the standard format used for capturing from miniDV …
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What is the technical advantage of celluloid film over digital?

Early in the development of high end digital cameras, the primary reasons to shoot digital were cost and efficiency. Filming on cellulose is expensive and logistically complex. … This increasingly made digital a strong draw for projects. Now, in current day, digital sensors pretty much meet or exceed film's quality, range and sensitivity. …
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Converting from 3/4" video to digital.

For that kind of quantity, you probably want to look in to a robotic solution that can load and transfer tapes unattended in to a cataloged system. Doing a quick search showed SAMMA as one promising …
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Is it possible to have stereo sound from an external mic on a Canon Vixia HF G20

According to the Using Commercially Available Microphones section on page 76 of the manual for the HF G20, it should be possible to connect a stereo microphone to the external mic connection. There m …
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