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Digital video question Anonymous
i asked on /g/ and they were quick to direct me to /p/

this has bugged me for a while, so i hope someone can explain in layman's terms because it's quite confusing

my friend uses a canon xl1 video camera. and he says it's digital, at first i thought, oh, so it's hard drive or memory based

but no, it uses minidv tapes, which have um, a tape inside. but isn't that analog?

what's perplexing is, he can somehow transfer that directly to his computer by firewire and he gets a video file straight to it.

so it IS digital but converted from an analog source? is that it?
>> Anonymous
its recording through a digital sensor.

Then compressing the image before exposing it to the film..

i think thats right.
>> Depressed Cheesecake !wFh1Fw9wBU
Tape drives can store digital data.
>> Anonymous
isn't the tape in minidv an analog medium?
>> OPFOR !8vKpfCqy8A
>>159264
I think it might be 720x480 but its been a while since I even touched an xl1.
>> Anonymous
>>159270

I would love to say that to you-know-who. I'd say MOTHERFUCKING really loudly. Like, "I WANT ROOM SERVICE" loudly.
>> Anonymous
>>159270
"Full frame" doesn't mean anything, really. It's a marketing term Canon foisted on us to suggest that Nikon's high-end models were somehow not "full" for having a smaller sensor than Canon's 24x36mm sensors.

"Full frame" as we're using it ITT just means a digital sensor the same size as the film in the system it's replacing.

Frame rate varies. For normal cinema, it's usually 24 frames per second.
>> Anonymous
>>159270
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate
>> Anonymous
so technically, these video cameras would bitchown a D3 and 1Ds?

because they take 24 motherfucking framers per second at high definition resolutions
>> Anonymous
>>159296
Are you seriously offering to buy AC a Red One in exchange for porn?

Because sounds kinda like something he'd take you up on.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>159296
Significant other wouldn't be up for it. And nobody wants to see my fat naked ass.
>> Anonymous
>>159299

If I was a millionaire I would do shit like this for real all the time.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>159303
I'm just a hundredaire and I do stuff like this to a limited amount. Just bought a friend of mine a cheap, crappy (but better than her webcam) video camera, for instance.
>> Anonymous
>>159309

I know this sound faggy, but fuck it: You are awesome and a cool guy.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>159325
That's what I keep telling people, but they're just all like "Sir, you're causing a scene. Put your pants back on and get out of this funeral home or we will be forced to call the police."
>> Anonymous
>>159331

Win. :D