DVD Dub while Capturing in FCP?

[David Bogie]

If she’s got FCP, she’s got DVDSP, too.

Regarding the first post’s mention of a one-button menu. Look up FIRST PLAY in the manual for DVDSP. If you set First Play propelry, as soon as you insert the DVD your track will play. Don’t need no stinkin’ menu.

We use a couple of Panasonic hard drive and DVD recorders in our shop. Friend of mine has a rack of the inexpensive LiteOns, purchased at Costco. I don’t think he paid more than $120 each.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Lisa Strong]

Hi bogiesan —

Of course skipping the menu and just doing First Play would save me a couple of minutes. I’ve done it before in other instances. It’s not the menu creation that takes so long; it’s the compressing and burning that takes up, well, a couple of hours for a full hour of footage. Add that to an hour capture, and it’s not an efficient use of time. I’ll look into the LiteOns. What model of the panasonic is your shop running?

LS-A

[Chris Poisson]

Lisa,

I have that exact Panasonic deck which I haven’t used in a couple of years. I could be talked into parting with it I suppose…

[Lisa Strong]

Thanks Chris for the offer. I would want it to work for dubs as well as working directly with DVDSPro via firewire. I emailed the author of the review from the Ken Stone site, and he said he never got it to work in OSX. Apparently, according to his article, Panny was surprised it worked in OS 9.2.2, but it did. So I’m still doing research.

LS-A