It all depends on the value of the event. For our productions, we only use new tapes. Once a year we sell them on ebay, where I'm sure someone uses them 100 times over with no trouble.
Digital video won't degrade. It may get more dropouts, or more chance of outright failure, but what picture *is* recorded will be top quality. Minor point: You don't "download" miniDV footage on tape, you "capture" it. For this use, your next camera will likely be an AVCHD model with solid state memory, which you will "upload" to your computer. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:44 PM, David Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got an A/V question. We're conducting focus groups, & videotaping them with > a MiniDV camera. After taping, I download the footage into iMovie, & burn A > DVD. I've never been in the habit of re-using the MiniDV cassettes, but > we've got about a dozen more tapings, & I was trying to cut down on the > number of tapes we use. I know I can only re-use them for so long before the > quality degrades. Anybody have experience with these? tia. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
