recording Fanstasmic question

[Dragonrider1227]

The camcorder I plan to use is a DVD-R camcorder with a "Lowlight" feature. I'm wondering if the lowlight wuld be a good idea or not when recording Fantasmic 'cause even though it's at night, it uses alot of bright lights and flashes so i'm curious, which would you reccomend?

 

[dolbyman]

dvd-r = bad idea ... quality is just not good enough

both nightshot versions I could think of a useless in fantasmic

IR = uses IR LED's to produce a spot of invisible light that the camera can capture (will be green .. so no colors) ... on a show distance those spots are useless
slow shutter= the shutter time of the cam is goin up so more light can "reach" the CCD(s) ... framerate get's jerky and the pic will get wahsed out


stick to normal low light shot for this show

 

[Dragonrider1227]

:veryconfu My camcorder talk is a little rusty. I don't think I understand what you mean? You mean those little cds won't be good enough? What would it look like if I used them?

 

[dolbyman]

they suffer from compression artifacts .. cause mpeg2 uses a much higher compression than mini dv ...

space comparision:
dvd-r =4.7GB
minidv=30GB

also the color spaces an compression are much better on the dvcodec but this would go too far :animwink:


if you already got this camcorder be sure to use the best quality .. although you might not be able to record the whole show in one take (you have to change the discs)

 

[Dragonrider1227]

Well, I knew THAT. The discs are only 15 min. I already have planned where i'm going to stop. I don't have one of my own but i've been practicing with my mothers and plan to pick one up of my own. Does the commpression thing ruin the quality of the picture?

 

[Tim G]

But IMO you're not allowed to videotape the movie itself...

 

[Dragonrider1227]

what do you mean?

 

[dolbyman]

But IMO you're not allowed to videotape the movie itself...

what movie ?

Does the commpression thing ruin the quality of the picture?

if only 15min fit on the disc I guess this thing feeds those mini dvd-r's

qualitywise dvd-r suffers from motion artifacts .. but a good way to find out how you cam handles that, is to read a review on the pages i posted before :wave:

 

[Dragonrider1227]

cool. Thanks. I'll do that ^^