Hi -
In a current magazine (this month's Event DV?), I recall reading something by the editor saying there was a $1K Panasonic tapeless camcorder... w/16gig memory stick.. or something like that.
Do any of you know of any decent camcorders, under $1500 or so, that are tapeless, eg just record straight to some kind of memory stick/usb etc ? or anything on the horizon? I welcome the day when I can go shoot my footage and just copy it from a virtual usb memory stick in high-def if possible, to one of my pc drives ...
You guys are all on top of this stuff - anything out there worth getting, or on the way?
thanks,
Ken
p.s. I'm trying one of those focus external drives (though I'll likely get a sony/better one eventually if need be), that does this, but I'm talking about a camcorder that natively writes good footage to some kind of memory stick/card that I can just unplug from the camcorder when done with shooting and plug into a pc usb/firewire port and transfer the avis to the pc ...
the whole idea of still using vidcap gets less and less appealing w/new technology on the way, particularly when it comes to saving time by not having to realtime-capture footage, which takes hours. and the earlier prosumer camcorders sounded really bad, the ones that wrote to a dvd, since vibration etc and low quality... I'd like to have some way to natively write uncompressed avi (if possible, or at least a much-better-than-mpg-compression codec) to built-in dockable memory sticks etc
In a current magazine (this month's Event DV?), I recall reading something by the editor saying there was a $1K Panasonic tapeless camcorder... w/16gig memory stick.. or something like that.
Do any of you know of any decent camcorders, under $1500 or so, that are tapeless, eg just record straight to some kind of memory stick/usb etc ? or anything on the horizon? I welcome the day when I can go shoot my footage and just copy it from a virtual usb memory stick in high-def if possible, to one of my pc drives ...
You guys are all on top of this stuff - anything out there worth getting, or on the way?
thanks,
Ken
p.s. I'm trying one of those focus external drives (though I'll likely get a sony/better one eventually if need be), that does this, but I'm talking about a camcorder that natively writes good footage to some kind of memory stick/card that I can just unplug from the camcorder when done with shooting and plug into a pc usb/firewire port and transfer the avis to the pc ...
the whole idea of still using vidcap gets less and less appealing w/new technology on the way, particularly when it comes to saving time by not having to realtime-capture footage, which takes hours. and the earlier prosumer camcorders sounded really bad, the ones that wrote to a dvd, since vibration etc and low quality... I'd like to have some way to natively write uncompressed avi (if possible, or at least a much-better-than-mpg-compression codec) to built-in dockable memory sticks etc