MicroMV

MicroMV is a turn of the millennium introduced by Sony standard cassette camcorder in an ultra- compact range. With MicroMV beginning of the two-thousand years were built the smallest and lightest camcorder in the world. A total of five different models came with MicroMV on the market that can be recognized by its suffix DCR- IP all. Meanwhile, the production of these devices is set. Cassettes, however, were still available in 2007.

MicroMV takes on a postage stamp tapes on a MPEG -2 derivative at a data rate of 12 Mbit / s. The recording format is incompatible with DV, due to the stronger compression is also the image quality is slightly lower than that of DV, but this is hardly noticeable in practice.

It is difficult to get support for the software generated by MicroMV file format *. Mmv because not much video editing software supports this format is. However, there are now a number of manufacturers, the MMV- functionalities have built into their software, or is offered for a plugin. There are, for example for Adobe Premiere is a plug-in from MainConcept. On Macintosh computers, the import through iMovie is possible since version 08.

After the in-house video tool by Sony since 2001, never appeared a freely available update, it is advisable to resort to other solutions.

There is also a free tool for MS- Windows, the * mmv - in converts. *. Mpg files, which is sold under the name mmv2mpg.exe. It is in the command prompt served ( DOS window ), but also offers batch processing capabilities.

List of previously manufactured MicroMV devices:

• DCR- IP5
• DCR- IP7
• DCR- IP55
• DCR- IP 220
• DCR- IP1

Some of these models provide a support for network functionality via Bluetooth, which allow the sending of images, MPEG movies, e- mails and surfing the Internet when an appropriate Bluetooth adapter or Bluetooth -enabled mobile phone is available.

• Digital storage medium
• Videotape format