Recording format on mini-DV tape ??

[Flemming Loevenhardt]

When I record my footage with my HD100 on mini DV tapes, what kind of format is recorded on the tape.
a) Is it MPEG2
b) Native HDV 1280*720p ?

Why I ask is because, I would hear if I can capture the footage on my computer in native HDV and not “only” in MPEG format

Best wishes

Flemming

[Stephen L. Noe]

Originally Posted by Flemming Loevenhardt

When I record my footage with my HD100 on mini DV tapes, what kind of format is recorded on the tape.
a) Is it MPEG2
b) Native HDV 1280*720p ?

Why I ask is because, I would hear if I can capture the footage on my computer in native HDV and not “only” in MPEG format

Best wishes

Flemming

Hi Flemming,

In HD modes the camera captures M2T (Mpeg 2 Transport stream).
In SD modes the camera will capture either M2T (576p50 SD-HDV) or DV25 (interlaced modes).

Capturing footage (through firewire) to a computer will give the same results.

S.Noe

[John Miller]

Originally Posted by Flemming Loevenhardt

When I record my footage with my HD100 on mini DV tapes, what kind of format is recorded on the tape.
a) Is it MPEG2
b) Native HDV 1280*720p ?

Why I ask is because, I would hear if I can capture the footage on my computer in native HDV and not “only” in MPEG format

Best wishes

Flemming

HDV *is* MPEG2 - not to be confused with more expensive high definition formats such as DVCProHD which is more like DV but at high def resolution (effectively four DV codecs running in parallel).

[Flemming Loevenhardt]

If the camera record in MPEG2 (M2T) and later to be captured on the computer in AVI- format and then later decoded back to mpeg2 – is there a lot of lose in the quality?

I capture to my computer in Adobe Premiere from Br HD 50

Kind regard

Flemming Lovenhardt