And it varies with the camcorder. In our last discussion I lucked out and had the devices they had so I could answer. But so far, I've never found any do this over USB. You can dismiss that now. As to Firewire, we saw that over a decade ago but it's gone now.
I think you are asking others to search for said camcorder but I'm not doing that today but if I go looking for this the usual is to call each maker's sales lines and ask. Also, why not 2 cameras? One for recording and one for the PC? And why bother with the camcorder at all if we can get it to the PC let the PC do the recording and your apps do that plus processing.
Bob
Hi guys,
I'm looking for a camcorder that will let me record the video normally to its memory and preview it on a laptop at the same time.
Is it possible?
Can camcorder record and output the video through firewire/USB at the same time?
Can I use the S-video/AV outputs for that? But I guess I'll need some convertes to be able to get the image on my laptop, right?
I need a preview for image processing so I need to be able to access the image data in real time.
I'd be great if preview is at lower resolution, but it's not a must. I can do downscaling before processing.
If you can suggest me any solution and example of camcorders that supports it I'd be really grateful.
The solution can include some non-expensive external converters if needed.
Thank you,
Wojtek

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