Small end do cards. Most of the better ones have Harddrives and capacities of
30 GB.
A Card tops out at 4-8 GB not good enough for more than an hour or two.
HD HQ digital Video takes lots of capacity that outstrips cards fast.
I have a Canon Elura that's about 3 years old. It uses mini DV tapes. It
has both FireWire and USB for tranfers, but I only use FW with Final
Cut. I would never consider a videocam that doesn't have removable,
rewritable media. Newer SD cards are much larger than 4-8GB. 32GB cards
are below $100. 64GB flash drives are below $150. Samsung and Panasonic
are releasing 64GB SD and CF cards. However, solid state drive prices
are coming down fast. I would consider a solid state drive if it's
removable.
Until there are affordable, quality removable media for videocams, I'd
wait for that, and not worry about the transfer technology since my cam
has FireWire. BTW, FW isn't going away, except in many consumer devices.
FireWire is significantly faster and more reliable than USB, and remains
in professional videocams. No matter how fast USB3 is rated, it's still
only one-way transfer. The advantage of removable media is that you
don't have to connect the videocam to a computer or display except to
view and edit the results, not for transfer.
As one who used film ['rolled' my own still, movie film, video tape] in
large quantities for my work, I only consider removable media in large
quantities. I'll stay with digital tapes as long as they're available.
Plenty of new pro cams still use tape.
Chad?
Betty
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