Yikes, DVD-RAM sure ain't MiniDV!

I did a bit of research and it seems my initial conclusion was correct... I'm going to get to learn quite a bit in order to work with the camera. And OS X perhaps won't mount the camera as a USB device, moan, so I'm probably blogging this in the wrong place. I doubt I'll have time or interest to take this opportunity to help a friend and learn about DVD-RAM all the way to finding an easy way to use this format as easily as I would a MiniDV firewire input. So that's where it starts... WindowsXP mounts the camera, OS X does not, so I'm moving to Wintendo. I'll record my notes here just in case it helps somebody... kinda doubtful.

This morning I seemed I'd have to start "trying things" and I didn't want to mess with the vital production data, so I made a little test clip. I can now see three files on my new DVD_RATV disk: VR_MOVIE.VRO which I could guess is my movie, plus VR_MANGR.IFO and VR_MANGR.BUP and this link seems to suggest we might be making progress... but also higlights the difference between the test and prod data.

DVD-RAM ain't MiniDV, and it ain't DVD-RW either! The camera apparently supports two kinds of discs. DVD-RAM seems to mount as drive E and could be pulled over to the PC... DVD-RW, I don't know why Windows is telling me "incorrect function" when I click the drive, but that's where I'm at.

Hmm. Enough said here and for now.

Yikes, DVD-RAM sure ain't MiniDV!

Friday, Sep 8 at 4:54 AM