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Liteon DVD recorder fails the Firewire challenge
I received my brand new Liteon LVD-5005 yesterday from Newegg and excitedly set it up as quickly as possible in anticipation of burning DVDs in realtime via firewire right off the FCP timeline. Alas, no joy in Mudville… The Liteon product will apparently recognize and burn via Firewire from a VTR or camcorder, but not from a firewire port on a computer. Boo hoo!!! I’m very disappointed…
Does anyone use another brand of DVD recorder that will work???
THNX,
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David,
I have a Panasonic DMR-T3040 that works from the timeline, plus it has a 40 gig internal hard drive. It’s a great machine, but alas, I hardly use it anymore since DVD Studio Pro v.2. It has several choices for menus, as I recall it allows for 8 chapters.
Have a wonderful day.
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Thanks Chris… I’ll check out that model.
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Is firewire the only input? Why not use S-video or component?
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Simple answer Jeremy, my BM Extreme has no y/c out, my only component out is in use and I do not wish to switch cables ever, and firewire carries both audio and video in a single cable making it supremely easy. Not to mention, laptops with nothing but firewire could play out to the DVD recorder in realtime too…
Thats why…
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Hmm. I take it you work in dv exclusively then? If not, I’d route your signals however you need to, be it through your monitor, deck, mixer, whatever.
Jeremy
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Chris, does the Panasonic actually use a FW port in from your Mac?
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
FCP 5.0.4
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drw
Hey,we have that lite on and now i remember how we got firewire out of FCP into the Lite-On
we used a camera as a “transcoder”, feeding the camera FW and feeding the
lite on s video out of the camera. it worked fine.BTW the lite on as well as most if not all consumer dvd recorders does not have component in, only component out, no doubt to keep people from making component cpoies of dvd’s
hope this helps
bee eph
“I like video because its so fast!”
Bob Flood
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Yo Bob,
Yes, I figured that one out too. It means you need a deck worth a least a few thou just to feed a silly $129 DVD recorder. Not sure why a DV video signal from a computer needs to be treated any differently than a DV signal from a camera or VTR??? Kinda silly…
I’m sending it back…
DRW
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It’s Digital Rights Management. A lot of recorder and dvr boxes have ieee ports that don’t even do anything.
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
FCP 5.0.4
QT 7.0.4
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