At first blush, was thinking that Xacti HD cameras that record to SD memory cards would prove an interesting solution.
Mailing you the SD cards shouldn't be too much of a problem. Very small. Perhaps TOO small? Problem with all of this - regardless of what camera you choose - will be getting good sound, so placement of any camera near the speaker (either the person or the sound reinforcement speaker) will be essential. The quality of the Xacti HD camera we used at VlogEurope 07 was pretty darned good. Xacti files are .mp4; 10 MB for 30 seconds of raw footage @ 640 x 480 on the non-HD model I personally worked with. Darned if I can recall the model. Imagine the settings may be changed to another aspect ratio, esp. in the HD model. Sounds like an interesting project for you :) Let us know what you decide to do. Jan On Dec 9, 2007 11:47 PM, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the sitch: > > I am trying to get every office I deal with at Sun (6 - 10 sites worldwide) > to have a videocamera they can use to capture presentations etc. which can > then be edited and re-used for sharing knowledge, training, etc. Usually the > raw footage will be sent to me for editing, posting, and making into DVDs. > That last point is important: I need good enough quality somewhere that a > DVD is going to look reasonable (especially considering that filming will > usually take place in less than optimum conditions); highly compressed MPG > may not be good enough. > > One problem we've already run into is how to ship around large amounts of > raw footage: these talks run 45 minutes up to 3 hours, and an hour of raw DV > AVI = about 12 GB. Even Sun doesn't have the bandwidth for that to be a fast > transfer, and I certainly don't have it at home. > > My gut feeling is that the best solution is MiniDV - tapes are easier to > mail around than hard disks. But I'm willing to be told otherwise. I don't > know the state of the art in HD-based camcorders these days - what do they > compress into? How big are the resulting files (per minute)? > > Any thoughts/advice/pointers will be welcome! > > > -- > best regards, > Deirdré Straughan > > living & travelling in Italy > (and other Countries Beginning with I) > www.beginningwithi.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- The Faux Press - better than real http://feeds.feedburner.com/diaryofafauxjournalist - RSS http://fauxpress.blogspot.com http://wburg.tv aim=janofsound air=862.571.5334 skype=janmclaughlin
