Just need someone to write some firmware and develop the product. Mine, just over a year old gives the best pictures I've seen for a consumer camera.įW input to something like an external HDD for video capture, then output via USB to a computer in theory should be possible. I contend that Panasonic has one of the best consumer camcorders on the market, with 3 CCD built in and doesn't use USB for video transfer as far as I can tell. While it is getting harder to find mini DV camcorders they do exist and Steve Jobs statement was far from just an exaggeration that consumer camcorders have been using USB for the last couple years. Only 3 offered all use IEEE 1394, none are High Definition. Others appear to allow both USB and iLink connections for video Standard Definition: ZR900 ZR930 ZR950 (all use IEEE 1394 protocol) High definition:VIXIA HV20(IEEE 1394 protocol) VIXIA HV30(IEEE 1394 protocol) I do know my Panasonic, bought about a year ago, won't. PanasonicMost appear to use only IEEE 1394 protocol for video but I'm not sure. It's getting harder and harder to find cameras that play 8mm DV tapes.
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The issue I'm running into is how to play those tapes. I'm sure such a device is possible, but I've never seen one. What is needed is some kind of lossless device for taking Firewire streams, buffering them, and sending them via USB to another device. And the Apple apologists will just keep coming up with reasons why it was such a great, forward-looking decision. We can yell this at Steve until we're blue in the face, but he'll never put Firewire back into the Macbook. With HDD-based cameras, you have to dump to another device when you fill up, which takes much longer than swapping a tape - and you're left having to back up those bits & keep them consuming disk space for however long you want to keep the footage. A tape-based camcorder lets you keep the original recording for as long as you want, and gives you near-infinite recording time with minimal trouble "in the field" (just a matter of how many tapes you bring). Granted they are tape based, but some people may still to this day prefer tape based. Just happens to be that some of them are still DV tape based, and iMovie just doesn't recognize the USB port on those as a valid input for capturing the video.Īnd some of the brand new consumer camcorders still rely on FW for transfer to computers.
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Jobs was stretching the truth a bit when saying consumer camcorders the past 2 years have been shipping with USB ports.