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What is better for camcorders? tapes or memory cards?

  • i just got a Canon Vixia HV 40, it only records on tape, memory card is only for pictures, so i was wondering, is tape or memory cards better for recording? what comes out better?

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    On every simple experiment you can do, try it on any media card camcorder start to record and the quite quickly move to another object, you will see that the camera is not able to capture the fast moving images smoothly, this also happens on HDD cameras, but more pronounced. then try it on a Tape based camcorder you will have a smooth video. reason is that it does not matter how good the camera is its compressing the video, to an incredible degree. if you think that uncompressed video is around 130 gb for 90 minutes, how many hours do they claim to be able to get on a 10gb flash drive or a 60gb HDD. so now you can see how much the video is shrunk (compressed) you can never recover the lost data, its gone, all the subtle changes in each frame, gone. because you use that type of file system. Many people say that HDD is the new media to record on, sorry folks but all the signs are that the consumers are going to use flash cards, and the pros are still going to use tape, or film for the foreseeable future, until they produce a compression system that does not reduce the quality, there is not one yet. HDD are to delicate and do not take well to abuse. dropping, cold, heights, knocks. Tape is still the preferred medium for most pros, its cheap, and is a great way to archive your videos, quality is great, fill a tape up then just drop another one in. apart from one, All my cameras are tape based. RR

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It's not the recording medium that makes a difference, it's what gets recorded on it. As a good rule of thumb, the less the video is compressed the better the quality. The problem is that lightly compressed video uses a lot of space, hence it's recorded on magnetic tape.

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They both work but... With a tape you have to "lay down time code" on the tape by recording nothing for the entire length of the tape. If the tape is an hour long this will take an hour. Then you will need to expose the tape which will take another hour. When you load the contents of the tape into the computer that works in real time so that takes another hour. Therefore it will take three hours minimum to prepare, expose, and download your one hour tape. With a memory card you can format the card, expose your "footage" (an obsolete term if using memory cards), and load the contents into your computer a whole lot faster. If your production is time-dependent, that is - you have to get it out fast, tapes slow you down. Flash memory cards are taking over because they have decided advantages over tapes. Tapes are still in use because they do have their place and you get some incredibly nice video camera that still use tapes but tapes are soon going to go the way of Polaroid film because the advantages of memory cards make it a more desirable and faster way to produce videos.

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Neither in my book, Hard drive is the way forward.

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