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.

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.

Alan

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:04 PM, gm5729 <gm5729@gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I am old fashioned, but aren't the current Video cameras on the
> market standardized now like cellphones by being UMS devices and have
> eith SD/HC cards or USB interfaces. Then with that you can use
> mencoder/ffmpeg/mplayer to to a data dump with a one liner rather
> easily.
>
> vp
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