I'd like to get past the 1hr barrier for high quality DVD recording
Currently, I burn DVDs on my PC, then take the DVD to my television's DVD recorder / player and use that device to output to my VHS recorder.
Is it possible to hook an External home entertainment DVD recorder / player which has firewire and a hard disk to my PC, and rather than burn a DVD from Video Studio, output the files instead to the hard drive of the external DVD recorder / player?
And then.... burn a DVD from there, or output from the DVD player's hard drive to a VHS recorder?
Can I output to external DVD recorder with hard disk?
Moderator: Ken Berry
"I'd like to get past the 1hr barrier for high quality DVD recording"
-Can't you increase the compression to put more than 1 hour on a DVD?
"Currently, I burn DVDs on my PC, then take the DVD to my television's DVD recorder / player and use that device to output to my VHS recorder."
-What is the original source of the media and how do you captur into your computer currently?
"Is it possible to hook an External home entertainment DVD recorder / player which has firewire and a hard disk to my PC, and rather than burn a DVD from Video Studio, output the files instead to the hard drive of the external DVD recorder / player?"
- Theoretically its possible depending on your file type. Some external recorders have a DV/FW in so you could hook up the FW out from your computer and play from VS directly into the DVD recorder in. If your files on your computer as DV. You might not have device control. Don't know about that. (You might have to press record on the external DVD recorder depending on your unit.)
"And then.... burn a DVD from there, or output from the DVD player's hard drive to a VHS recorder?"
- Depending on you your original source material and the file type you are using, you may be able to export directly to VCR with an external converter. For DV, the ADVC100 has analog and FW in and out connections. For that you could hook up the RCA jacks directly to the VCR and record from the computer to the VCR. For FW you could use typically a 6pin to 4 pin cable to connect to the DVD recorder. If your source files are MPEG already there are devices that will allow you to export MPEG through an external conversion box directly to an analog source as well using RCA cables again. Pinnacle Moviebox, Pinnacle Dazzle DVC150, WinTV350 (has output connections.) There are other otpions as well, some of them better.
What is the original source of your material?
How are you currently capturing?
What format are you capturing? MPEG, DV, MJPEG?, etc?
Answering these questions will help answer which way is better for you to go.
-Can't you increase the compression to put more than 1 hour on a DVD?
"Currently, I burn DVDs on my PC, then take the DVD to my television's DVD recorder / player and use that device to output to my VHS recorder."
-What is the original source of the media and how do you captur into your computer currently?
"Is it possible to hook an External home entertainment DVD recorder / player which has firewire and a hard disk to my PC, and rather than burn a DVD from Video Studio, output the files instead to the hard drive of the external DVD recorder / player?"
- Theoretically its possible depending on your file type. Some external recorders have a DV/FW in so you could hook up the FW out from your computer and play from VS directly into the DVD recorder in. If your files on your computer as DV. You might not have device control. Don't know about that. (You might have to press record on the external DVD recorder depending on your unit.)
"And then.... burn a DVD from there, or output from the DVD player's hard drive to a VHS recorder?"
- Depending on you your original source material and the file type you are using, you may be able to export directly to VCR with an external converter. For DV, the ADVC100 has analog and FW in and out connections. For that you could hook up the RCA jacks directly to the VCR and record from the computer to the VCR. For FW you could use typically a 6pin to 4 pin cable to connect to the DVD recorder. If your source files are MPEG already there are devices that will allow you to export MPEG through an external conversion box directly to an analog source as well using RCA cables again. Pinnacle Moviebox, Pinnacle Dazzle DVC150, WinTV350 (has output connections.) There are other otpions as well, some of them better.
What is the original source of your material?
How are you currently capturing?
What format are you capturing? MPEG, DV, MJPEG?, etc?
Answering these questions will help answer which way is better for you to go.
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BrianCee
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jchunter_2
Your question about using a DVR to break through the DVD time limit barrier bears on another DVD imposed barrier – the image resolution barrier. All in all, I think that the Digital Video Recorder – the high def version – will be the most feasible way to see our digital slides with the full resolution offered by HDTV sets.
Every time I view my digital slides, I know that my modest 3 megapixel images have lost the great majority of their pixels on the way to the screen.
Do the math: My slides come out of the camera as 2048 X 1536 pixels = 3,145,728 pixels – yet I must render them down to 720 x 480 pixels = 345,600 pixels to put them on a DVD, dumping 89% of the resolution down the old bit bucket.
However, an HDTV can display 1080 lines of 1920 pixels = 2,073,600 pixels. But since this is wide screen, to display my 4:3 digital slides, the best I can hope to display is x 1440 x 1080 = 1,555,200 pixels. Note, this is 4.5 times greater resolution that I can achieve today.
Where are the barriers? First I need software that can create 1440 x 1080 frames (listen up, Video Studio). Then I need a storage medium that can handle the higher bitrate – too high for DVDs but hard disks can hack this bitrate already. These hard drives are already packaged in High Definition DVRs. Prices should come down quickly because all the components are commonly available in computers.
My guess is that movie companies will still be squabbling over anti-piracy standards for the blue laser HD DVDs five years from now.
My bet is on the HD DVR, which requires NO new technology to do the job.
Every time I view my digital slides, I know that my modest 3 megapixel images have lost the great majority of their pixels on the way to the screen.
Do the math: My slides come out of the camera as 2048 X 1536 pixels = 3,145,728 pixels – yet I must render them down to 720 x 480 pixels = 345,600 pixels to put them on a DVD, dumping 89% of the resolution down the old bit bucket.
However, an HDTV can display 1080 lines of 1920 pixels = 2,073,600 pixels. But since this is wide screen, to display my 4:3 digital slides, the best I can hope to display is x 1440 x 1080 = 1,555,200 pixels. Note, this is 4.5 times greater resolution that I can achieve today.
Where are the barriers? First I need software that can create 1440 x 1080 frames (listen up, Video Studio). Then I need a storage medium that can handle the higher bitrate – too high for DVDs but hard disks can hack this bitrate already. These hard drives are already packaged in High Definition DVRs. Prices should come down quickly because all the components are commonly available in computers.
My guess is that movie companies will still be squabbling over anti-piracy standards for the blue laser HD DVDs five years from now.
My bet is on the HD DVR, which requires NO new technology to do the job.
external reocrders
kilvroch - check the manual of your DVD RECORDER to see if it can be remotely controlled thru the firewire. Come can and some can't. If it can be, then you would should be able to connect it as if it was camcorder and UVS8 will send the video as DV AVI. All the encoding will be up to the DVD RECORDER. Would be interesting to see how Windows 'sees' the device if at all.
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Gary Russell
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Gary Russell
TNUSA
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