James Rogers

What about the Andromeda capture device by ReelStreem? You guys seem pretty smart. Take a look at their website and see what you think of their device. It is something that has to be hardwired into the camera. It is suppose to bypass the compression circuitry of the camera and send an uncompressed digital stream to your computer via USB2. I think their software also allows you to set certain perameters such as color sampling too. The video is saved as individual bitmaps rather than avi or mov . Here is a link to their site: Reel Stream

This is a pretty good thread. Thanks guys, I'm learning a lot from you folks.

Phil, In terms of artifacts; When shooting blue/green screen, would it be wiser to capture analog as described above? Also, why do you say the image might not look any good if you capture analog from a prosumer MiniDV camera?

First let me fix a mistake. The person who claims that a prosumer camera (canon, sony) can deliver uncompressed video said that you have to use the y/c out and not the firewire. Now, for the sake of clarity, I'm not talking about recording to tape. That is not what I said. I said "a live video feed transferred through the "y/c out" to the computer will produce uncompressed video". In other words; if you turn the camera on and record directly to the harddrive through the y/c out, you can get uncompressed video. Any thoughts?

Hello, We are having a discussion at IndieClub.com about the possibility of recording uncompressed video from a prosumer MiniDV camera to a computer hard drive. There are some that believe that a live video feed transferred through the firewire to the computer will produce uncompressed video. I personally don't believe this. However, I think that the analog outputs are uncompressed. One of our members suggested that I pose the question here. He claims that professional DPs capture uncompressed video from DV25 cameras as a matter of common practice. If this is true, could someone please explain how. If you have time, stop by www.indieclub.com and say howdy. Oh yeah, I'm James Rogers. Here is my website: Morphic Motion