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THROWBACK THURSDAY 1: Experimenting With A Canon Digital Tape Camcorder

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Channel: jaykay18 · 2016 · Howto & Style

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Originally recorded August, 2004.

Back in August of 2004, xjoe81x had to waste money on a new video camera.  It was an old Canon, I forget the model, and it took miniDV tape.  This was the first recording with this camera.  The camera had a lot of digital fades, wipes, and other features.  It gives the quintessential look of the times.

I remember putting this together in Windows Movie Maker in Windows XP.  The machine had 512MB of RAM and a Pentium 4 processor, I seem to remember about 2.4GHz.  The video was transferred in real-time over a FireWire cable.  Could you imagine having to transfer video in real-time nowadays?  

After maybe 2 dozen tapes, this "camera project" lost interest, and the camera was shelved for years.  It's still around, it might still work, but that remains to be seen.

The next 4 parts were the "novelty of the camera" days.  After that I need to source more footage.  Any of that footage was recorded either to VHS tape or VHS-C tape, with much older camcorders.  The tapes themselves were in bad shape, but what was left was converted to a digital format so they will not lose any more quality (except YouTube compression/artifacting.

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