{"id":39,"date":"2013-10-18T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeedeals.com\/home\/?p=39"},"modified":"2013-10-18T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:11:07","slug":"minidv-cameras-and-data-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/minidv-cameras-and-data-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"MiniDV Cameras and Data Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>If you\u2019re considering purchasing a used Prosumer\/ semi-pro Mini-DV camcorder there\u2019s one suggestion we feel compelled to make:\u00a0 <em>Don\u2019t use the camera for playback or to transfer footage to your PC. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>At first thought you might be asking yourself, \u201cwhy am I paying this much for a camera and <em>not <\/em>using it for data transfer?\u201d.\u00a0 Well that\u2019s a good question.<\/p>\n<p>The heads in your camera will not last forever.\u00a0 They are mechanical parts and have a set life-span.\u00a0 This is why many cameras have drum meters that tell you how many hours the camera has spent recording and playing back footage.\u00a0 Over time tape mechanisms will fail and heads will get coated in tape residue or just wear out naturally.\u00a0 For this reason, it\u2019s best to ensure that you use your camera for recording only and use another device for footage transfer and playback.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, so now you\u2019re wondering if you have to get an expensive editing deck to transfer footage\u2026\u00a0 Well the answer to that is no.\u00a0 The Mini-DV format is digital which means that you\u2019re essentially only transferring a bunch of 1\u2019s and 0\u2019s.\u00a0 So when it comes to playback and data transfer a $20 camcorder is going to get the job done just as well as your $1000+ Panasonic DVX.\u00a0 The only difference is that at the end of the day if the $20 camcorder fails you can replace it with another $20 camcorder.\u00a0 If the heads on the DVX fail what will you replace that with?<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why we strongly suggest not using your pro\/ semi-pro Mini-DV Camcorder for data transfer!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re considering purchasing a used Prosumer\/ semi-pro Mini-DV camcorder there\u2019s one suggestion we feel compelled to make:\u00a0 Don\u2019t use the camera for playback or to transfer footage to your PC. At first thought you might be asking yourself, \u201cwhy am I paying this much for a camera and not using it for data transfer?\u201d.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeedeals.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}