DVD recording realtime

[Walter Biscardi]

Many of the new DVD Recorders take Firewire input. our Panasonic unit does.

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[Randolph Harrison]

Thanks Walter,
unfortunately, my unit doesn’t. It has standard rca’s and I believe s-video.

[Steve Cohen]

Some DV Cams will take a firewire input and pass it thru to the video out for TV playback.

You could take the video camera out put and run it to you DVD Recorder.

I have never set it up like this, but a friend of mine had his system set up like this before he could afford to do it right.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

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[walter biscardi] “Many of the new DVD Recorders take Firewire input”

I have tried this and it wont let me, from the computer only from a camera. Perhaps it was me and I just missed a setting, I didn’t spend much time on it, and was in a rush.

[Randolph Harrison]

Thanks Steve,
I just checked my dvd recorder, it does have a four pin dv input. But how can that be directly connected to the mac and see the cut being played? Or does it still need to go through a camera so that FCP thinks it’s outputting to a dv device? Sorry I’m new to FCP and the configuration seems a bit hazy to me.
Thanks
Randy

[Randolph Harrison]

Thanks much,
I’ll give it a try.
Randy

[Bret Williams]

A DVD recorder is as much a dv device as a camera or a deck. It should work just fine. Check the recorder menu settings. But if that doesn’t work, attach analog video to your dvd recorder. I don’t understand this whole mystery actually. You’re editing a video, so you have some sort of video output to a tv or monitor. Plug that input into your DVD recorder. The firewire will be your best bet though as it will be a full digital component signal instead of composite or svideo.

[Kyle High]

Maybe I’m missing something… until you can afford the equipment, why not author a DVD and avoid the whole FireWire issue?

Do you have any DVD authoring software?

Typical work flow…. FCP to Compressor to DVD Studio Pro… It might take a little longer than just a straight dub to DVD, but it could be cheaper than trying to figure out your FireWire issue.

Just a suggestion.

postman

[Randolph Harrison]

Thanks Postman,

This actually brings up an entirely different issue…

Yes, I do have DVD Studio Pro. And I’ve had a few problems with it on this project…and that is why I was wanting to experiment with real time dvd recording. I was hoping maybe the picture might look better than if I ran it through compressor and then DVD Studio pro.

When I’ve authored each dvd, there seem to be some video hits/glitches and sometimes even the picture would stutter or stop. Other times burning the exact assets would give me a different result. But the original media shows no aberrations. So far on this project I haven’t found reliability on the software. I have friends who’ve had similar problems with the software.

I’m sure it isn’t the equipment. I’ve got plenty of processing power and ram. It is Hi Def footage, 1080p24 full res.

So that’s my reason for trying something different. Any thoughts?

Thanks
Randy

[Kyle High]

I’m actually working on an HDV 1080/24p documentary. I recently had to make a DVD of the first 5 scenes to be sent to the composer.

I took my HD timelines and nested them into an SD timeline. I rendered that, then exported it to Compressor. It took more time that I would like… about 30min’s start to finish for 8 min’s of footage, but the resulting DVD looks good.

I think that having a single QuickTime file helps when working with compressor. I have no science to back that up, it just seems to work for me.

Hope this helps, postman

postman