[MacDV] Panasonic DVD recorders

[Brian Sledz]

Hello,
Thanks for the input about the output.  ;-]
Brian
At 09:41 AM 1/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>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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