Why waste time Rendering to MPEG to create a DVD

tahi wrote on 7/18/2003, 9:21 AM

Maybe I am missing something here but if a project is edited on Vegas 4 and using the function of "Printing to tape" , then on the computer output is say one of the new Phillips stand alone DVDR75 or DVDR80 DVD recorders, the only time taken to create a master DVD is the time it takes to play the track. Also Why bother about having a DVD writer in ones computer?

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jetdv wrote on 7/18/2003, 9:47 AM

To get a fully authored DVD with motion menus and backgrounds with chapter points at the desired locations?

RBartlett wrote on 7/18/2003, 10:08 AM

- spend less on the gear but get tailored results.
- More on a disc for the same quality. Option to get 2-pass (or higher) VBR.
- Option to make a disc image of a DVD-9 file set or iso (backup software) to two or more DVDs for archive purposes. Without needing removable HD volumes.
- ability to write either Microsoft HD-DVD (WM9-Series), dual stream video SD+delta HD-DVD etc
- multimedia DVD-ROM
- when it fails (and it will fail as you dare not use friction cleaners with disc writers)- the cost of replacement will be significantly less than you initially paid - even from the same manufacturer.

I do agree that the quality assurance and the potential time saving of standalone recorders is significant. You can get some pretty good results feeding from your analogue output from a PrintToTape into a nearby PC with mediostream neoDVDplus directly to DVD. Depending on how you come across the adequate PC, this can be cheaper than the standalone VDR but just as flexible as described earlier in this post.

kameronj wrote on 7/21/2003, 11:23 AM

Yes, in one respect you may be missing something.

It is possible, I suppose, to "print" directly to a Phillips stand alone DVD recorder in real time. But if you wanted to do a "real" DVD authoring set up with menu's and sub-menu's and a bunch of different stuff like chapters and such - you ain't gonna get that by doing a straight print.

A DVD burner in a PC gives you more control over what you are authoring and how you are authoring it.

Think of it a different way....

A DVD disc is not only for audio/video use. Most people get stuck on that fact because DVD (commercial) are used for movies mostly. But once you stop and look at it from the POV that a DVD disck can hold (for starters) 4 gig....then that is a separate 4 gig storage device.

I have at least 20 gig of MP3's that I have converted all of my old CD collection to. This, of course, gives me the flexability to put 100's of songs on one CD versus 12 to 15.

But, having a DVD reader I can have (at least) one quarter of my collection on one disc (and my whole collection on 4) versus more. Thus...my DVD disc can hold more data.

Or...a different way, I video tape my favorite show (Stargate) on VHS, and then dump it down to digivid and take out the commercials and stuff and then can save it to disk in WMV Format to replay on my computer (which is hooked up to my television).

Right now I have all six seasons saved off to six CDs (I compress each eps so it is about 25 MB and looks halfway decent played on PC). So....give or take a few meg here and there....at 700 MB per disk, I can store all six seasons in WMV format on one DVD disc to play via my PC instead of having them on six discs.

You are not going to get that same feature on a standalone DVD player/recorder. You are only going to be limited to realtime video or audio. Which is a waste of mony.

I don't think I would ever purchase one of those - it is too limiting.