DVD Burning via Firewire and Vegas Video 3.0

briang wrote on 7/13/2002, 8:18 PM

Hi

I am currently looking at purchasing a Panasonic DMR E-20 Desktop DVD burner to use with Vegas Video 3.0. In Australia the DMR E-20 is supplied with a Firewire interface as standard (PAL version).

My question is: Will the Vegas Video print to tape feature support a firewire connected DVD burner, or are there technical or quality issues that would prevent this? If it is possible, it would provide a very elegant DVD solution.

In closing, I have been absolutely delighted to-date with the quality and perfomance of Vegas Video 3.0.

Thank you and regards

Brian Griffiths
Silicon Forge Pty Ltd

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Cheesehole wrote on 7/13/2002, 10:57 PM

>>>My question is: Will the Vegas Video print to tape feature support a firewire connected DVD burner, or are there technical or quality issues that would prevent this? If it is possible, it would provide a very elegant DVD solution.

Vegas will deliver a full quality DV stream over the firewire using the Print to Tape feature, but the question is... does your DVD burner act as a DVD recorder? you feed it DV video and it encodes it into MPEG-2 video and burns it to disc at the same time? doesn't sound likely so check carefully, but it would be a cool product! very elegant. let us know what you discover.

briang wrote on 7/14/2002, 4:13 AM

Hi

My current understanding of the Panasonic DMR E-20 is that it will accept SVHS, basic composite, and firewire and encode this input on the fly into MPEG2 for burning onto the DVD. I also understand from the literature that the E-20 also encodes Dolby 2 Channel Now I need to emphasise that this is my understanding from the literature, and also some USA based video folks who have purchased this system to produce DVD masters and have been very happy with it. I have not yet personally had a demo of the product, however I will re-confirm these points with a user. I do not believe the firewire version is yet available in the USA, as it is only packaged for PAL format at this time. It has only low level authoring capabilities. However for straight forward video applications, it is great and hence my interest in using it with VV.

In Australia pricing is approximately Aus$2,500 (was $3,000 a few weeks ago) with the Pioneer A04 at Aus$1000 (Aus$ X 2=+US$I.00).

Many thanks.

Brian

briang wrote on 7/14/2002, 6:27 AM

Hi

An apology.

My calculation of the Aussie exchange rate was a little confusing. It should read approximately Aus$2.00 = US$1.00.

If it was the other way around, the USA would be swamped with an avalanche of Aussie holiday makers on the rampage. Not a pretty sight!

Regards

Brian