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To: Sam Citron who wrote (27405)	2/5/2005 2:35:55 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) of 60323

Sam, I have owned a digital camera since 1998 when... ...nobody I knew believed that digital photography would ever amount to much. I now have an equally fervent belief that solid state video will replace tape in many consumer markets and have begun creating my own family movies recorded on a 640 x 480 resolution digital camera shooting 30fps. The beauty is that the knowledge base to perform this is nearly identical to shooting digital photographs and the downloading is exactly identical. XP ships with standard Microsoft software for movie editing that is extremely user friendly. It is called "movie maker" and creates .wma files. It is fantastic to shoot .avi or QuickTime files as small, self-contained sequences and manipulate them on the desktop. The files and "finished product" become easily accessible and distributable. The other option, keeping stacks of digital tape, is neither convenient or accessible. Copying digital tape to digital files is time consuming and creates extremely large files. One issue with miniature hard drives is whether they will be created to be removable like the standard IBM microdrive or whether they will be permanently embedded. I think that actually being able to remove and replace the media is crucial. SanDisk could create a 4.7 gigabyte CF card that could be copied directly to a standard DVD and call it "CompactMovieMedia". At that point the card copied and reused without much fuss. I would expect that this size card would not be limiting to the experienced videographer. In the future the decision to include a hard drive or a flash drive will largely be determined by compression standards and file size. We will start seeing multigig CompactFlash nearing $100. ecost.com If you could record an hour of video on a 1 or 2 gigabyte card it will be unnecessary to purchase a 250 gig microdrive. And what would you do anyway when that 250 gig card gets filled? Aus

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