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john-beale wrote on 4/9/2003, 8:55 PM
No.

There are standalone DVD recorders out there which record analog input direct to DVD, they do the encoding in hardware. However, Vegas uses the computer's CPU to do software MPEG2 encoding and there is no computer fast enough yet to do real-time software encoding. Also, there is a separate "authoring" step required to create the DVD.
clearvu wrote on 4/9/2003, 9:24 PM
Although I don't have the software (MYDVD) that came with my DVD burner installed, I thought "IT" was able to do it. If I remember correctly, MYDVD has an option of "Direct to DVD". I've never used it to know how it works. When I first got my burner, I only used the software for capturing, but since using Vegas, I removed MYDVD.

Is anyone familiar with MYDVD software to know if it can do "Direct to DVD"?
john-beale wrote on 4/9/2003, 10:04 PM
It is true that many DVD authoring programs offer the option, once you have authored your DVD, to write it direct to your DVD burner instead of making a temporary image on your hard drive first. But this is only after you've generated your MPEG2 files and set up your menus, and done the rest of the authoring process, it isn't "real time" DVD generation direct from a live video input.