Panasonic DVD recorders

[Morey, Laurence R]

In response to the question below on Panasonic DVD recorders: 
I recently purchased a Panasonic DMR-E30K and have had great success with recording directly to it from my G4 450 running OS9.2 and Media 100 editing software and hardware.  I'm sending the DVD recorder an S-video signal and the quality looks quite good.  I haven't tried outputting directly from FCP3 yet but would need to go to miniDV or a converter as the DMR-E30K model doesn't have firewire input.  For $550 from Amazon.com it was well worth it for me.  The Panasonic DMR-HS2 looks to be of a very similar design to the DMR-E30K but with a built in hard drive and firewire input, which are some nice features for $300.  As far as I know you can also record directly to the DMR-HS2 through it's S-video input.  One nice feature on the lastest Panasonic DVD recorders which isn't mentioned in any specs I saw was the fact that they automatically place chapter marks every 5 minutes so you can jump ahead in long programs 5 minutes at a time without adding the markers automatically.  You can also create chapters (calle

Laurence Morey 




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Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030102070634.02a76c48 at pop3.linkus.net> 
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 07:12:36 -0600 
From: Brian Sledz <brianhome at linkus.net> 
Subject: [MacDV] Recording from Mac to a dvd recorder 

Hello, 
I was wondering if one could record from a mac, to this new Panasonic dvd 
recorder, the DMR-HS2.  I was reading about some issues on the Mac support 
groups page about iDvd and or iMovie and though if I could go from the mac 
out to the fire wire in on this unit you could avoid any issues of quality 
and then get past the 90 minute length. 
Also if export the iMovie back to a MiniDv I assume it is possible to 
record on this Panasonic unit? 
thanks very much 
Brian  

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