"Chris F." <zappyman@nospam.com> wrote in message

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> Do any of the current high-end camcorders (sony VX-2000, etc). have this

> capability? When I bought my current Sony several years ago, the salesman

> claimed he had at least one model that could do it, but of course I couldn't

> afford that one.

> I mainly want something that can compress several hours of video into 30 -

> 60 seconds.

Many camcorders can do this, but they "take" 6-7 frames at a time, and the

mechanism must start-up/stop for each "frame", which is not good for the gear.

Better: use a digital still camera and a way to have it grab frames at the

desired frame-rate; use a digital video camera with stills-capability and have it grab

frames at the desired interval; FireWire-connect the video camera to a computer

with a program that can capture frames (Premiere, others...).