2 Capturing Video
Getting Media from the Camera to the Hard Drive
The concept of “capture” in digital video is a nomenclature predominantly leftover from days gone by. “Capture” or “digitizing” is actually done at the camera when dealing with digital formats such as DV, HDV, XDCAM, and advanced video codec-high definition (AVCHD). Transferring media from the camcorder to the computer is really just a data transfer. Nothing is done to the media as it's being transferred from one digital storage device to another. Compression has already occurred in the camcorder/recording device stage, whereas in the old days with analog video, the camera captured uncompressed images and the capture card would compress the video into a data stream that the computer ...
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