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Sport events recorded directly to DVD
I own a couple JVC HM100 cameras. I work sporting event tournaments and sell game footage. What I currently do is dump footage from cameras to my macbook, burn a master copy of the games, then mass dupe them on a DVD duplicator. This takes quite a while, between ingesting footage, making the menu, and burning the master DVD. What I would like to do is hook the HM100 directly up to a DVD Recorder and record games directly to DVD. It doesn’t matter if the menu is crappy, I just need to mass produce these games quickly and with best picture possible. The problem is I don’t know of any DVD recorder with an HDMI input, or if they even make such a thing, etc. I know I can go to the recorder using rga cables, but that significantly reduces quality. Does anyone know of the best way to go about this process while keeping the best picture quality possible?? Can I go through rga, and is there a way to upconvert? I feel pretty novice on the whole subject. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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I also do a lot of this, but not so much mass duplicating, more highlight reels for individual athletes.
I have a better solution in the technology friendly environment. Upload the game to Vimeo, password protect it and provide the password to those who pay you. They download the games. No duplicating, mailing, hassles!
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
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Seems like you;d wanna edit em if selling them. You can easily just upload em when done, as suggested.
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The image quality with composite (RCA) will be fine if the source is good. I’ve looked and looked for anything with HDMI in, but it doesn’t seem to exist.
Alternatively, you could use a DVD recorder with Firewire in. My Panasonic DMR-EZ48V has that. I also have a portable Sony VRD MC6 with FW in, but you can’t monitor the audio from it and it has no playback. The Sony is, however, portable, although it requires a 12V power source.
Set your DVD recorder to auto playback anything it records so people don’t even get to see the crappy menu.
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Have you considered going FireWire into a laptop and capture live to eliminate ingesting later? That would save you a significant amount of time. I did that all the time before going tapeless with a NX5U.
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