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January 17, 2005
Use your dvr and DVD recorder for DVcam editing
If you ever worked with editing video from a Dvcam either as a hobby or professionally like for weddings and special events. You know that your options are quite limited for publishing the finished content.
You basically have two choices, save the video back to the camera on DV tape or burn it to a DVD. Both choices can be time consuming and processor intensive tasks.
You could buy a hardware encoder card but the good ones are expensive and tie up the computer when you can be doing other tasks.
We wanted to have the ability to do two tasks without spending a great deal of money.
1) Create a final DVD version of the content.
2) Be able to show friends or a potential customer a
rough cutof what the finished video would look like.
For the 1st criteria it was simply a matter of connecting a standalone DVD recorder to the firewire port on a pc. The Video could be captured by the editing program Vegas Video, edited and saved to the standalone DVD recorder.
Vegas Video was chosen both for its power and simplicity over other high-end programs and its print to tape function seemed to work well with the Phillips DVD recorder we chased to use..
The second criteria we achieved by connecting the Svideo output of the DVD recorder to the Svideo input on a 5504 replaytv.
This allowed the replaytv to indirectly access the firewire connector on the DVD recorder. I.e. As the video is monitored on the dvdrecorder it is passed to the 5504 and manually recorded.
Now when we want to show friends, family or a prospective client the video before actually saving it to DVD we just bring them into our spare room where the second replaytv is setup.
Using room-to-room sharing we access the replaytv attached to the “editing console” and show them the rough cut.
More information can be found on the Distributed Home Wiki.
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Editing workstation and Playback Monitor
Video is composed and produced inside vegas video.
Print to tape is used to output to dvdrecorder or replaytv
Preview on Monitor
Posted by Cassandra at January 17, 2005 12:32 PM