Moving into DVD- Help!!!--MacDV Digest #2434

[Ted Langdell]

I also have a Panasonic DMR-HS2 and and Canon XL-1.

Like you, I've found that there's no way to get a clean Firewire transfer
(no pixel blocks) from either the computer (iMac 500MHz DVSE) or the XL-1.

What does seem to work cleanly is first transferring via Firewire to my
DCR-TRV520 D8 camcorder, and then off to the DVD recorder via Firewire.

I would suspect that Sony has better error correction somewhere in the
chain.  I'd rather be able to get to DVD in one hop, (iMac to DVD recorder)
but at least this is clean, and digital.

For more than a few copies, I take a single DVD to a friend of mine who has
a 1 x 4 disc duplicator and burn them in the appropriate number of
multiples.

Re: Chapter markers and such...  I'm in the same boat you are with the
Panasonic deck, but some of the suggestions other folks made might be
helpful in terms of burning fewer coasters on your Mac.

I saw DVD Studio Pro 2 demoed by Apple at a San Francisco event recently,
and it looks really simple to use.  Apple has built in a lot of time-saving,
step cutting features, making the process of building a really slick-looking
DVD interface quick and easy.

I'd be able to use it out of the box, and am looking forward to getting a
new box to use it with.  (G5 DP, 2-3 GB RAM, grin!)

Good luck...

Ted.


> From: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 05:35:23 -0800
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: MacDV Digest #2434

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> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:41:04 +0000
> Subject: [MacDV] Moving into DVD - help!!!
> From: Karl Hayden <khayden at iol.ie>
> Message-Id: <0E75DF37-13A5-11D8-A9B4-00039367FF28 at iol.ie>
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> Or an alternative which has been suggested to me is to buy a DVD video
> recorder. I have one on trial at the moment, Panasonic DMR-HS2. It has
> a 40 GB hard drive, so if I need to produce multiple copies I can load
> that up and keep replacing the DVD-R for each copy. This alternative is
> OK(ish) but, the firewire connection does not work between the computer
> and the DVD video recorder, the firewire between camera (Canon XL1)
> does work,  but there are a lot of pixel drop-outs and other
> distortions which take away from the reason to have a DVD video
> recorder. I have tried using the composite connections, s-video
> connections and the composite to scart connection. But, that is just
> adigital signal converted to an analogue signal converted back to
> digital and I can see the difference between this and the firewire
> connection. AND one of the main reasons for DVD is to be able to create
> chapters and graphics to go with them but I can't do that with this
> machine.