[ Ventilation ]

6-26-2006 3:10 pm

David: I Rant

I purchased a digital camcorder at Best Buy yesterday. I'm not sure that I really needed/wanted one, but it's in the soon-to-be dad's handbook. An open letter to Best Buy about my shopping experience is up over at my layout challenged site.

I ended up with a 20GB JVC HDD camcorder, which means no tapes. I haven't had much time to shoot with it yet, but it looks like I'm going to have to download a few add-ons for the Mac to be able to recoginize the video. It's MPEG-2 and QT only deals in MPEG-4. The app that was bundled with the camera is PPC only which means that it's slooooooooow on my Intel Mac. However, these difficulties are worth it for the moment since I won't have to deal with DV tape, a format that I can convert the video files to, if necessary.

Comments (3)

fuzmeister - (The Real ST)

So, wait... will it work on something other than PC?

David - ()

It works with the software provided, Mac OSX just isn't equipped to deal with the .MOD video (a semi-proprietary MPEG-2 format) out of the box. However, and Quicktime plug-in and one free Streamclip download later and I'm able to convert them to any format I like.

So now I think it's the shit.

Brandon - (<-- The Electric Sunshine Man, yo!) - Administrator

Yeah, BBY blows. Its sad how agressive their sales tactics are for them being non comissioned.

I hate that job.

Congrats on your new camera though!

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