Enter - "the dvd recorder"

mel58i wrote on 10/29/2005, 2:47 PM

I've just bought one of these for less than £100 in the UK and it's got DV in. I can see it completely changing my work flow - as in the examples below:-

1) Use as a D to A converter to feed a monitor when previewing the timeline.

2) Use as a means of transferring analogue tape onto dvd.

3) Use for doing a PTT from timeline to dvd.

With examples 2 and 3, the recorded dvd can be put onto the PC to extract the MPEG2 files to use in authoring s/w to build a proper menu system. This process can be done in a fraction of the time it takes to render the timeline to produce a MPEG2 file - always a time consuming process.

And, it can record tv prog's too!

Mel.

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farss wrote on 10/29/2005, 3:30 PM

Certainly one way to get the job done however we've had problems.
Noisy video from many source (VHS in particular) can result in some less than optimal encoding. The audio seems to always end up as ac3 and you've got to stitch the VOBs back together and that can be a bit hit and miss.
If time is of the essence one can get a box that does a straight encode to mpeg-2 onto the HDD, I think the one from ADS has 1394 input.
Bob.