Re: Lost frames, or what else?

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Carl Karsten <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that this part of the tape was
>> recorded without a steady (I'm not sure this is the right term), so the
>> handycam moved very much in all directions. Could the "complexity" of
>> some scenes influence the analog/digital converter? I don't think so, at
>> least because it never did before.
>
> No, the compression happens as the camera is writing to tape.  when
> streaming from tape, it is just reading bytes from tape and sending
> them over firewire.  not much processing at all.  same on the dvgrab
> side: read from firewire, write to disk.

What I said isn't correct.  I forgot you are not playing the tape in a
dv camera.   I do not know about that specific device, but I have
heard that Canopus equipment is good, so I doubt it isn't able to
encode fast enough.  but it is possible.

-- 
Carl K

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