Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:22 pm
Something else to think about:
When you fill the miniDV tape, pop it out, lock it, pop in another - not only does that tape become the archive (with a good shelf life), but you can shoot for as long as you have (cheap) extra tapes. At around $3 for an hour, they are affordable. When you fill up the hard drive or (expensive) flash memory), what do you do? When you transfer the hard drive video to your computer, you delete the camcorder video files. If you do not back up those files to an external drive or data DVD, when the project is done being edited, you will delete the video files - so¡K gone from the computer and gone from the camcorder¡K gone forever.
