DVD recorder like for quick FCP output

[David Roth weiss]

Checkout the Elgato Turbo, which is an inexpensive dedicated .h264 encoder that works via USB. Plus, there are dedicated hardware encoder cards, but they are very expensive, and most are Windows based.

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[Sara Booth]

Hello,
I’m also looking for a way to record straight to dvd from final cut pro. I checked out Elegato Turbo, but it seems to just be for creating files, not dvds. Pedro, could you post to this thread what you find, and I will too, that way we can help each other?

bests,
Sara

[Pedro Casais]

Sure Sara, but mind you that I am looking for hardware that creates files not dvd’s. If all you need is a quick dvd of your fcp sequence and you don’t have to wait for all the compression time, you can send it directely to a dvd recorder and record on the fly.

what I’m looking for is something like the dvd recorder but instead of dvd’s, it makes quick times or other digital files. Just like if you have another computer and use quick time pro as to take the out of your fcp computer.

I’m checking out the good advise so far we got to make files on the fly.

best,

[Sara Booth]

Hey Pedro,
Do you use a dvd recorder with FCP? I’d like to find one that’s not astronomically expensive that can create high quality dvds. Any ideas?

bests,
Sara

[Pedro Casais]

Hi Sara,

I’m doing some search on this one: PANASOnic DMR-ES35V, but one thing I’m finding out is that we need to make sure that they record both, 4×3 and 16×9 ratios. Some of the older models only did 4×3.

best,