From what I remember, Cowclops used a MiniDV camcorder to do his first version. DV is a form of compression which is used in consumer and prosumer video cameras/editing systems. The problem with it, in this case, is the color sampling which causes a "shift" in the red spectrum.

MiniDVDs are MPEG-2 videos. Even more compressed than DV. Not a great codec to record your baby's first steps IMO (especially when hardware is doing on the fly compression)

In version 2, he used a capture card in a computer. I don't recall what codec he used though. In any case the codec he used yelds a higher quality than DV.

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