Video editing help request

Well, Sony didn't exactly lie to you. It IS the smallest digital video camera on the market. It IS digital video.

As coaster nuts we should all be accustomed to this. Jeff at PKI was not lying when he described Tomb Raider without telling us what it was...and a lot of Buzzers who weren't paying attention to him were disappointed when they found out what it was! :)

Once you export the file to your computer as an MPEG-II file, you should be able to import that file into some video editing programs (Avid, Final Cut, and Premiere all ought to be able to import MPEG files, but I am mostly guessing). So it can be edited. And the bit rates are MUCH lower than for DV, while the image quality should be pretty good. Does it take good pictures? How does it look when you play it back?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Yea, it's great looking video, but the pictures are just recorded on 6 seconds of video, so the resolution of the pics are the same as the video. I rarely use it for pictures though.

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Dr. Freeze said:

They did call it the world's smallest Digital Video Camcorder. To most people, that means digital video = digital editing.

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Isn't digital video also what DV stands for?

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Yes, but "DV" is generally interpreted as the standard that Sony, Panasonic, etc., agreed upon. I think the DV spec is a combination of recording methods, compression and tape formats. The variations include DV, miniDV, DVCAM, DVCPRO and I'm sure some others.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
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Yeah, leave it to Sony and Panasonic to both adopt an industry standard (DV-25) and come out with their own incompatible or only partially compatible variations: Sony's DVCAM is DV-25 encoding, but on an incompatible tape format; Panasonic's DVCPRO is the same mecahnical characteristics as DV, but at double the bitrate (DV-50). At least both DVCAM and DVCPRO can play standard DV-25 tapes...!

Dr. Freeze: My apologies, by "does it take good pictures" I meant, "how does the video look." I don't much care for still photos anymore. My own misuse of the language. Sounds like it's a pretty neat product, though. You sacrifice compatability, but you get a good quality image in a really tiny package; you really can't complain too much about that! My only concern is how the video holds up when you pass it through editing, particularly if you dump it into a DV stream and then back to MPEG-II for DVD recording. But if it holds up through editing, you may find that MicroMV isn't a bad origination format. Just not as easy to deal with as DV-25. :)

Besides, I noticed that at least one of the MicroMV cameras actually has something I've wanted on a video camera forever now: a pistol-grip design!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Who has been interested in the MicroMV but hasn't seen any locally...