[Beds] Digital Camcorder choice for Linux

[Neil Darlow]

Hi Adrian,

On Thursday 26 May 2005 15:29, Adrian St. John wrote:
> I haven't used it with Linux, but I do have a Canon MV650 equivalent
> (long story, but its the NTSC variant rather than PAL) that you can borrow
> to experiment with. If you don't have a firewire connection I can lend
> you a PCI card as well.

Thanks, I picked-up a Firewire card locally (two standard size and one 
miniature connectors with a standard-to-miniature cable included) and that 
seems to be detected by the BIOS and Gentoo quite nicely. I'll need the 
camcorder to determine that udev is doing its business correctly.

I'm confident the MV880x will satisfy our photographic needs and, with half 
term being next week, I'll be buying it sooner rather than later.

I expect the video capture/transcode/edit/burning process and toolchain will 
be the biggest challenge to producing good results. I was really looking for 
feedback on this area of things from within the group and hoping I wouldn't 
be breaking new ground.

Thanks for the offer of the equipment loan, that's what LUGs are really about.

Regards,
Neil Darlow
-- 
OpenPGP Key: 0x531F9048 | Registered Linux User: 122512
-- 
Anti-virus scanned by ClamAV-0.85.1 - http://www.clamav.net