Comments for iDevelop This! http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com my corner of the universe Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:37:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras by bwakefield http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/pc-worlds-mini-dv/#comment-35 bwakefield Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:37:01 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-35 I don't have personal experience with a Macs (I haven't been able to justify the high cost). So you are probably right and I appreciate the feedback! I still stand by that it isn't such a "clear" winner as PC World claimed it was. Even if it does split it apart intelligently the tape still has to be traversed linearaly. Certianly slower than importing from a hard disk media. By the way, I have moved (I haven't shut this blog down yet and I still get email notifications of comments etc) check out the blog here: http://www.bdwakefield.com/idevelop/ I don’t have personal experience with a Macs (I haven’t been able to justify the high cost). So you are probably right and I appreciate the feedback! I still stand by that it isn’t such a “clear” winner as PC World claimed it was. Even if it does split it apart intelligently the tape still has to be traversed linearaly. Certianly slower than importing from a hard disk media.

By the way, I have moved (I haven’t shut this blog down yet and I still get email notifications of comments etc) check out the blog here: http://www.bdwakefield.com/idevelop/

]]> Comment on PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras by TVColer http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/pc-worlds-mini-dv/#comment-34 TVColer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:59:05 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-34 "What happens if you have different clips that you want to seperate? You have to edit the mini-dv capture video. You have to find the point you want to split and then using some video editing software create to clips and then render each individually." This is incorrect! If you are "dumping" video from a camcorder from mini dv format to your computer any intelligent computer (a Mac using iMovie or FinalCut) it recognizes when the tape is stopped and started and creates "clips" accordingly. “What happens if you have different clips that you want to seperate? You have to edit the mini-dv capture video. You have to find the point you want to split and then using some video editing software create to clips and then render each individually.”

This is incorrect!

If you are “dumping” video from a camcorder from mini dv format to your computer any intelligent computer (a Mac using iMovie or FinalCut) it recognizes when the tape is stopped and started and creates “clips” accordingly.

]]> Comment on PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras by bwakefield http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/pc-worlds-mini-dv/#comment-32 bwakefield Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:50:01 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-32 First, thanks for the comment. It is nice to know that somebody saw my rant and was driven to post a comment. I however must disagree with you. I have far more respect for innovation than you assume. I do however, feel that when comparing mini-dv (if anybody produces a feature movie using mini-dv, they are insane, if not stupid) and hard drive or flash memory based pro-sumer cameras, there really is no contest. The non-tape cameras win every time. It is cheaper in the long run and faster / easier (in my humble opinion) for the average person to use. I consider myself to be highly tech oriented and I don't even want to mess with tape. Tape is archaic and there are much better things out there. There comes a point when you just need to let go and move on for innovation to keep happening. More over, I was just more depressed at the article than the actual mini-dv vs hard drive topic. It was well written from the English language but it seemed to be technically flawed. They only tested one mini-dv camera? I realize that you have a limit amount of space in a magazine but they could have done a better job with the meat of the article. First, thanks for the comment. It is nice to know that somebody saw my rant and was driven to post a comment. I however must disagree with you. I have far more respect for innovation than you assume.

I do however, feel that when comparing mini-dv (if anybody produces a feature movie using mini-dv, they are insane, if not stupid) and hard drive or flash memory based pro-sumer cameras, there really is no contest. The non-tape cameras win every time. It is cheaper in the long run and faster / easier (in my humble opinion) for the average person to use. I consider myself to be highly tech oriented and I don’t even want to mess with tape.

Tape is archaic and there are much better things out there. There comes a point when you just need to let go and move on for innovation to keep happening.

More over, I was just more depressed at the article than the actual mini-dv vs hard drive topic. It was well written from the English language but it seemed to be technically flawed. They only tested one mini-dv camera? I realize that you have a limit amount of space in a magazine but they could have done a better job with the meat of the article.

]]> Comment on PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras by Maurizio http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/pc-worlds-mini-dv/#comment-31 Maurizio Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:55:44 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-31 You lazy man!!! Just less than 10 years ago people were editing in flatbeds, physically cutting film, spending hours just to cut a single scene. Computers changed all that and people like you do not appreciate the innovation of the industry. Patience my friend... You lazy man!!! Just less than 10 years ago people were editing in flatbeds, physically cutting film, spending hours just to cut a single scene. Computers changed all that and people like you do not appreciate the innovation of the industry. Patience my friend…

]]> Comment on PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras by PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/pc-worlds-mini-dv/#comment-10 PC World’s Mini-DV vs “tapeless” HD cameras Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:54:26 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=32#comment-10 [...] METELCI wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt PCWORLD’s article comparing mini-dv high definition video cameras to their tapeless counterparts was “sound” as far as reviews are concerned. I don’t have it in front of me right now and I wish that I did. I really should read it again before I dish out too much criticism. However, I have a serious problem with some of their findings. I think they missed the mark and didn’t emphasize the clear advantages for the pro-sumer and tape-less media. I am just going to look at their top two cameras. The one that got their best rating, an 82, was a mini-dv based camera. I don’t recall the brand or model. Just that it was $1000 and recorded in HD. Their second place was, at 80 points, was the Sony HDR-SR11/12 (I am nearly 100% positive it was the SR-12). They said that the mini-dv camera “edged” out tapeless alternatives. You call […] [...] [...] METELCI wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt PCWORLD’s article comparing mini-dv high definition video cameras to their tapeless counterparts was “sound” as far as reviews are concerned. I don’t have it in front of me right now and I wish that I did. I really should read it again before I dish out too much criticism. However, I have a serious problem with some of their findings. I think they missed the mark and didn’t emphasize the clear advantages for the pro-sumer and tape-less media. I am just going to look at their top two cameras. The one that got their best rating, an 82, was a mini-dv based camera. I don’t recall the brand or model. Just that it was $1000 and recorded in HD. Their second place was, at 80 points, was the Sony HDR-SR11/12 (I am nearly 100% positive it was the SR-12). They said that the mini-dv camera “edged” out tapeless alternatives. You call […] [...]

]]> Comment on Testing Windows file Compression Utilities by bwakefield http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/testing-windows-file-compression-utilities/#comment-3 bwakefield Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:42:28 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-3 None yet. I was pretty swamped the past week or so. I think I will be able to make a little progress today. Thanks for checking in! None yet. I was pretty swamped the past week or so. I think I will be able to make a little progress today. Thanks for checking in!

]]> Comment on Testing Windows file Compression Utilities by Jean Sagi http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/testing-windows-file-compression-utilities/#comment-2 Jean Sagi Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:40:42 +0000 http://idevelopthis.wordpress.com/?p=10#comment-2 How it goes? Any results? J. How it goes? Any results?

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