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Old 02-05-2008, 11:33 AM   #3
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Even burning to DVD, it'd take 12 DVDs to hold even just one dump from the camcorder.

Uploading the video over the internet is a no-go unless you can find somewhere that has hugely fast upload bandwidth, unlikely. 60GB is a lot, at normal shaw internet upload speeds (1Mbps), it would take 5 days to upload.

Over USB 2.0, in theory you could transfer 60GB in half an hour, not sure how fast they are in the real world for that much data.

So to me the only real option is to take external USB hard drive(s) that add up to how much video you think you'll be taking. a 1TB drive is over 100 hours of HD video.

Then you just need to be able to move it over. I know some digital cameras now come with the ability to transfer pictures to a USB drive without actually having to have a computer, and some external USB drives were made specifically for digital cameras that can pull the pictures right off. You might try looking for something like that, then you don't have to look for a USB capable computer or lug around a laptop.

Taking a laptop to store the video won't work either, laptop drives aren't that big.
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