HDV playback system

[Frédéric]

what you are looking is called an editing system?

and don’t you need a deck to feed that?

regards, Fr

[Steven L. gotz]

I believe that it is a lot easier to cary around a DVD player than a camera. Especially when someone else reaches for the remote.

I purchased the IOData AVeL Linkplayer2 over two years ago. The $249 price was irresistable. However, I am not certain you can get those anymore, because JVC licensed then and raised the price to $399.

Google SRDVD-100U

Much cheaper in the long run than a PC, and a LOT easier to take over to a friend’s house. All of my corporate customers have them in the training rooms where my training material is used.

As soon as Blu-Ray is less expensive, and that should be soon, go that route instead.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Perry Cheng]

Steve and company,
OK, may be I did not make myself clear. If I were to buy the “SRDVD-100U”, what is the flow process to get the HDV to HD-DVD? I have to authorize it then? Is there any, set-top, HD-Player that is able to play tape straight out from the DV-Cassette? Or I am thinking about capturing the M2T files and play with a basic Computer Setup, NOT an Editing System (Key is “Cheap”, minimal cost and effort and able to PLAY HDV without skipping.)

Thanks again.

Perry

[Blast1]

You need a video card that supports 1920×1080 if you are going to do playback on a 1080 monitor/tv, I just helped someone use their laptop(HP with a AMD TL52 x2 Turion) playback footage from a HC7 on a Plasma, the laptop was able to read the footage and rescale it to the Plasma’s native anamorphic res with no problem using Nero Showtime and play it out the laptop’s VGA port.
The processor doesn’t need as much horsepower as would be used for editing.
Ideal would be a computer and monitor with HDMI ports.

[Steven L. gotz]

The DVDs that are used in the Linkplayer are simply DVD-ROM (even RW – saves disks). Nothing fancy.

Just copy the M2T file over to the DVD-ROM and you are done.

Or do what I do and use Windows Media (WMV-HD) – see https://www.wmvhd.com for examples of what works.

As for authoring… No. Not on this device. You see the movie directory (or the picture ot the audio) and select the file you want to play.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com

[Perry Cheng]

OK Steven, I got it, I will think about your suggestion. BTW, as far as WMV-HD, I have to buy another codec (plugin), right? Do you mean playing with the WMV-HD via computer? Or via the settop player you suggested? Or how that works? (I read the links, but still a little lost.) Thanks for all your help, as always.

Perry

[Jerry Waters]

Try the VLC player also – free and it handles big files, does full screen.

[Steven L. gotz]

Play it either way actually.

I use a full 8Mbps data rate for the Linkplayer.

I also use 8Mbps if the WM9 file is to be played on a PC from the hard drive. But, I generally reduce the data rate to 5Mbps if the DVD-ROM will be played in someone else’s PC. The Linkplayer’s DVD drive seems to handle the higher data rate better than some of the PC DVD drives out there.

The WMV-HD file is nothing more than a properly configured WM9 file exported directly from the Adobe Media Encoder. No extra cost involved. Since the player can handle it, and other PCs can handle it, it has been a very useful format for me.

One additional note. Since most PC monitors can’t handle a full 1920X1080, I almost always export as 1280X720 deinterlaced. My TV is really only 1280X720 also, so why bother spending data rate and file size on a file that will be reduced by the television anyway?

It seems that 1280X720 is the better solution in most cases. At least until we all have bigger monitors as well as better televisions.

Steven
https://www.stevengotz.com