Christos Talanoez wrote in message <6cnqde$gio$1@usenet88.supernews.com>...

>The combination of Firewire card + digital Video Camera promises to do away
>with having
>to sample an analog video image via your capture card. Is that correct
>and has anyone experienced this?

Yes, and yes.

>Does the FW + DV Camera combination
>yield much improved results? For somebody going into NLE today would you
>recommend going all digital?

Yes (at the low to middle end of NLE'ing, since there are no generation
losses, and the original can be pretty good...), and YES! ;-)
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David Ruether
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