Current cameras are like that, yes.  Older (3 years-ish) cameras with DV tape are not that way.  They record raw digital video frames on the tape.  That tape must then be played back into the computer via the firewire connection.<div>
<br></div><div>Should Mark get a new camera?  Maybe, but that does not solve the problem of getting the raw digital video off the tapes he already has.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:04 PM, gm5729 <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gm5729@gmail.com">gm5729@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Maybe I am old fashioned, but aren&#39;t the current Video cameras on the<br>
market standardized now like cellphones by being UMS devices and have<br>
eith SD/HC cards or USB interfaces. Then with that you can use<br>
mencoder/ffmpeg/mplayer to to a data dump with a one liner rather<br>
easily.<br>
<br>
vp<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">---------------------------------------------------<br>
PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us">PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us</a><br>
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
<a href="http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>