Anyone who has any knowledge on Digital Video cameras read..

[AnimalMass1]

Deceiver, I know with mine, the video quality is whatever you set it to record at. I'm not familiar with your specific card, but with mine, it records in mpeg format, but there are free downloadable programs that you can use to change to a different format.

What format do they need to be in to be used with windows media player or real player?

AnimalMass

 

[Deciever1]

i would like them toeventually be compressed to a wmv file.. but an MPEG would be fine...

im gonna get my dad to help set up the video camera tonight, and then use my video cable to run it to my computer and see how things go.

im hoping that a 20 second clip will only be like 2 megs... but im not qquite sure.

 

[IrishPower]

digital video cam is the way to go.

xfers are much faster, quality is higher, and you can use windows movie maker to suck it right in and choose a sampling rate based on your (or what you will anticipate) others connecting at.

i would spend the extra $100 or $200 and do this rather than the camcorder capture route. it is a pain in the ass.

all of them are pretty good. just get the cheapest that supports ieee1394 (firewire)

/irish

 

[Deciever1]

well im working on getting everything set up. right now i just set up a limited FTP so i have about 70 gigs of storage..(i remind myself a little IRISH_POWER) and im going to test out the specs on how my video card captures from the camera.