[Ti] Any DV specialists here?

[Mark O'Brien]

On Sunday, May 11, 2003, at 11:33PM, Bill Reburn <reburn at mts.net> wrote:

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>He currently uses a Sony DSR PD100A for DV footage - what he is wondering
>is, does the capability exist to burn DVD's directly from the camera in real
>time through the computer? Or does the DV footage need to be dumped to the
>HD before burning?

You can't burn a DVD in real time on a Mac, because the DVD spec calls for video and audio to be compressed into the MPEG2 format. Mac G4s do this with iDVD (there are other applications), but it's in software and doesn't do it in real time.

There may be some hardware options that can do this in real time, but I would think they would be in the form of internal boards for the PowerMac G4 towers. If there's a Firewire option for TiBooks, maybe somebody will chime in.

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>Another option he is looking at and doesn't completely understand is
>purchasing a stand alone Panasonic DVD burner which contains a 40G HD and
>running it that way.

I'm not familiar with standalone DVD burners, but if he's interested in archiving his material onto DVD and then doing some editing later, MPEG2 is a lossy format and he will lose quality converting it back to DV for editing.

Mark