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Re: Archiving Recorded Regionals 2008
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Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton View Post
DV at 720x480 (SD) is typically 1 gb for every 10 minutes. It is a very large lossless format that is mainly used in digital video editing. Is there any other codec you could use?
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Originally Posted by Kyle Fenton View Post
That depends on your input device. Some are DV only, some could encode into MPEG-4 or divx also.

What I use is a cheap DVD recorder from Panasonic. Its great, and I don't have to worry about anyone steeling an expensive laptop. A PVR would be a better solution, because you wouldn't have to worry about the switching the DVDs.

If you are looking for a good input device for your laptop you can check out El Gato's Hybrid or the 250 +. Both can encode a lot of video without using a lot of disk space.
I have a Sony DVMC-DA2 (Maybe a DA1). (http://www.shopping.com/xPF-Sony-DVMC-DA2-DVM-CDA2) Does anyone have any experience recording regionals with them? They seem to have some sort of hardware conversion system...
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