At a guess, I'd say that one other possible way is to buy a broadcast quality camera with no internal recording and export the clips to computer in real time. Obviously the PC is still using mechanical components, but you can minimise data loss by use of RAID.
A really viable alternative is to wait for a while until the next generation of flash HDDs is on sale. This promises to be one of the biggest breakthroughs in HDD technology for a very long time, and it's ideally suited to portable devices, such as camcorders and laptops. One thing to watch for when contemplating a new device is viewfinding facilities. My original Sony Digital DCR-TRV340E still gives excellent service and has a B/W viewfinder as well as a colour LCD screen. It's main disadvantage is that tapes only last for 1 hour, and often with the shows that I record, each half will last more than 1 hour! My wife bought me a birthday present of a Sony DSR-TRV70E (as a surprise, so I didn't get to review it before purchase) which has a 60Gb HDD and I now have a battery that will give up to 16 hours recording on one charge! It has two disadvantages - it's file transfer capability (USBII) is abysmal, but I have overcome that problem. It's worst fault is that it has no 'proper' viewfinder, so it's useless in bright daylight or sunlight! It also has no direct output when recording so I can't even view real time recording on a laptop! Too many silly gimmicks like 'touch screen' and instant DVD burn which (IMO) are for nerds. A proper viewfinder would be a far better facility for the money. That HandyCam was over 600GBP last January, but is only worth about 300GBP second hand now. Birthday present or not, I can't wait to cut my losses and sell it, to buy an HD machine that has a real viewfinder, but that means I need to put another 400GBP to the selling price! Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus ----- Original Message ----- From: Rieni To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: [AP] Alternatives for shooting to tape? For example, the Panasonic AG-HVX200 records to both tape and P2 card. Mechanical tape drive problems in my Sony PD150 are my direct reason for shopping for a new camcorder, the rest of my PD150 is still in perfect condition. So replacing it with a camcorder without mechanical parts would be good. What realistic alternatives do we have for recording using mechanical parts (thus no tape, no DVD, no harddisk recording)? Rieni . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
