The lower the CCD resolution the better your picture quality will be. You camcorder always has to take 30 frames per second, not like a camera that takes stills. Check a good professional digital camera and find out how many pictures it can take in continous shooting mode. (EOS-1Ds Mark II - 4 frames/sec!)
If you put more pixels into the same area then your pixels, your light sensitive are is getting smaller, one pixel receives less light. Less light is not good. Take a 1"x1" paper and draw a grid on it. One horizontal and one vertical. This will give you 4 sqares which is still good, tha paper is still white. But if you draw a 300x300 grid, then your paper will turn gray, you loose a lot of white surface.
The same applies to projectors: the lower your resolution the beter the picture is. If you incase your resolution then you incrase your grid size and this way blocking more light.
Z.
I agree with your parent post: if you want to edit your movie the camera must use a format where every frame is a keyframe. MPEG2 is not better than MPEG4 in term of editing.
If you want to edit your recording you must have a master where every frame is a keyframe or I-frame. I don't think these formats are going to replace mini-DV. Transferring from the tape to the PC via firewire has never been a nightmare for me.
the cartridge holds the music that you insert into the unit. Basically it's a 2.5" laptop hard drive in a plastic case. At home you put it into a cradle, in your car you insert it into the phatnoise/kenwood unit which is normally in your trunk or somewhere else.
There are two flavors:
phatnoise and kenwood
Phatnoise makes units that work with factory head units. (audi/vw/bmw/nissan etc.)
Kenwood licensed it and the kenwood keg works with the kenwood excelon head units.
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The lower the CCD resolution the better your picture quality will be. You camcorder always has to take 30 frames per second, not like a camera that takes stills. Check a good professional digital camera and find out how many pictures it can take in continous shooting mode. (EOS-1Ds Mark II - 4 frames/sec!) If you put more pixels into the same area then your pixels, your light sensitive are is getting smaller, one pixel receives less light. Less light is not good. Take a 1"x1" paper and draw a grid on it. One horizontal and one vertical. This will give you 4 sqares which is still good, tha paper is still white. But if you draw a 300x300 grid, then your paper will turn gray, you loose a lot of white surface. The same applies to projectors: the lower your resolution the beter the picture is. If you incase your resolution then you incrase your grid size and this way blocking more light. Z.
I agree with your parent post: if you want to edit your movie the camera must use a format where every frame is a keyframe. MPEG2 is not better than MPEG4 in term of editing.
If you want to edit your recording you must have a master where every frame is a keyframe or I-frame. I don't think these formats are going to replace mini-DV. Transferring from the tape to the PC via firewire has never been a nightmare for me.
Z.
the cartridge holds the music that you insert into the unit. Basically it's a 2.5" laptop hard drive in a plastic case. At home you put it into a cradle, in your car you insert it into the phatnoise/kenwood unit which is normally in your trunk or somewhere else. There are two flavors: phatnoise and kenwood Phatnoise makes units that work with factory head units. (audi/vw/bmw/nissan etc.) Kenwood licensed it and the kenwood keg works with the kenwood excelon head units.
Strange that nobody heard about Phatnoise or the Kenwood Music Keg. Beats anything on the market.
http://www.phatnoise.com/