S-Video or RCA (Composite) video on a VX1000 - Which should you use?

[@samdief]

Very intersting video! I have a Clear Click 3.0 and I'm going to try to compare the RCA vs S-Video from my VX2000. Thanks for making this!

[@_Ridgeboiz_]

Have you tested yet? I used S Video and the audio cables and the audio is trash. Im not sure if i am doing something wrong but when the skater is far the audio almost sounds like its underwater.

[@charvao]

s video seems great for the immersionrc but there is no S-video to 3.5mm cable around i cant find any

[@orihalcon8693]

Looks like in both examples that your deinterlacer is just throwing away every other field of video during playback. Reason I say that is that there is pretty extreme jaggedness on all horizontal lines. These same clips if properly deinterlaced will look about twice as good. If you want to see what decent deinterlacing looks like for playback, open the same DV file in VLC, pause it, then go to Video menu -> Deinterlace (set to on), then go to Deinterlace Mode right below it and choose "Phosphor" and resume playing the file. You can permanently deinterlace it to a progressive file with something like QTGMC so that playback looks correct in other applications.

[@full6330name]

Sony HVR-MRC1 worked fine for me. Had some trouble at first since the input on the vx was not working correctly but on the second vx it works perfect. Easy to use and footage comes out crispy

[@joey69763]

Don’t know how I missed this, thanks for the comparison 🤌

[@mikecrook]

S-video is better than RCA no doubt, but direct firewire recording is even better. I own a lot of recorders for science and each one has its pros and cons. The cheap clearclik amazon DVR recorders are bulky and require constant power adding more bulkyness by needing a powerbank, the recording processing is ok. The Powerplay being RCA does a pretty good job processing but has a slight crop which no one talks about, the size is small but one of the cons is there is no way to dim the screen or turn it off, eats battery. It does interpolate to 60fps, looks smooth but would rather do that in post. The DR60 HDD Sony has a big con and thats a spinning disk, the recording is top notch quality wise but I would never trust a spinning disk in a skate cam. The MRC1 Sony has the least cons in my opinion, full firewire DV quality even timecodes are stored, the audio is true to VX and doesn't get put as mono like the others that are s-video and RCA based. The one con with it is the size but with a bracket is solved quite easily. I prefer having smaller compact flash cards to act like tapes, when full just toss another in. Battery life is insane on a small battery and have gone a full 8 hour session only using half battery. The FireStore products are bulky, heavy and Battery is an issue. Some running AA batteries which would be super annoying to carry around and charge, some being an internal HDD which would never trust a spinning disk. The quality is good but the weight removes the fun in the camera. The best part of a VX is the light weight, how nimble it is in hand for the filmer to use. My VX1 MRC1 with light and 3 batteries weighs less than a HVX200 by it self with no battery too! Toss a xtreme lens on it and your at over 16LBS!!!! hello back problems. End of the day you get what you pay for, it sucks that the tapeless market has more than doubled in price, these units are not rare and before making content about them they were only $200 for the MRC1, now seen some for $700 plus which is absurd.

[@bakonfreek]

It'd be a lot cooler if those little standalone recorders that are cheaply available (and I mean the cheap ones, like what you see from Ion or ClonerAlliance) could just record straight 50/60 interlaced or make some attempt to deinterlace to 50/60 progressive instead of 25/30 progressive rather poorly. They also often have this weird S-Video artifact (similar to old USB Roxio capture cards from like a decade ago) where when you try to record S-Video, you get a weird moire pattern from.. somewhere. It looks like the footage gets run through a screen door almost (like, literally, it looks like the footage is smoothed, projected on a screen, and then recorded with a camera pointed through a coarse mesh screen door). Far as portable recorders, I just picked up a Sony DCR-SR100 because it doesn't try to do any compression aside from using MPEG-2 (which sucks, but the macro blocking can be dealt with on the computer). Now, granted, I have a FS100 and a MRC1, but I'm weird. I also have a little (USB powered) portable scaler that takes S-Video, deinterlaces to 50/60 progressive, upscales to 1080p, and spits out HDMI that my Ninja V+ can record (again, I'm weird and have no self-control with the money this new job is giving me).

[@RT_Bloom]

Thanks a lot....this really help. 👌🏻💯

[@ifindoubtkickitout]

I know it’s completely unrelated but what sort of light should I be looking for night skating with a dvx100, I’ve been looking for a while but I can’t tell what ones would work with my camera

[@BenJonesVideographer]

Any light will work, but you'll wanna try a get a decently bright one as the dvx100 isn't amazing in lowlight. And make sure you get one where you can change the colour temperature of the LED's otherwise it's useless

[@Iglum]

I got 2 DR60 just sittning in a box. 📦

[@fletzyproductions1190]

Hey! I wanted to ask whats wrong about the digital recorders aside from the crazy prices? I plan on getting a firestore fs4 to use with my sony hvr z1 so i want to know if im making a good choice, thanks for your time!

[@kennerfee100]

Firewire