All rights are reserved. The images are generally 640x480 or 720x486 in size.
All analog compression is done at the computer.
This is quite different from the DV technology of today. DV is compressed at the camera, on the tape itself. When the video goes through the 1394 cable, into the card, and onto the hard drive, nothing is done to the video. It's merely a channel for transfer of data from tape to hard drive, much like copying a CD-ROM or a floppy disk to your hard drive. This allows the transfer to be done without losing important picture information in the process.