Export to Multiple Camcorders

[ivanarias]

Hi guys,

I posted this in another thread and then realized it had ended in May of 2006, so I'm putting it here though it's not about capture, it's about export and I wasn't sure where else to put.

I want to 'export to tape' from Adobe Premiere Pro but to multiple camcorders at once.

Would a Firewire Hub work? I'm wondering if Premiere Pro would be able to do device control through a hub or would get confused as to which camera or not work at all.

The point is I want to create some backups of the final edited product and right now I have to sit through real time recording to each MiniDV and Hi8 that I record onto; it would be great if I could record to them all at once in one fell swoop, so to speak.

I've considered having one of the cameras go out to a composite switcher thing and then back into another camera and so on (but only on an older Sony Hi8 camera that allows for recording back onto itself through that plug); but it would be so much simpler if I could just do the dump once from the computer straight to 3 or 4 cameras through firewire at once.

Any ideas or experience in doing this?

[zoobie]

I don't see why you can't use a splitter box. The hi8 should be saved as DV.

[edDV]

Device control will only work for one camcorder. Manual control would work for the rest. The control device usually needs to be selected in the Premiere device control menu.

A Firewire hub should work. As for Hi8, feed those S-Video and audio off one of the DV recorders. But why dub to Hi8 at all?

[redwudz]

ivanarias, Please don't cross post. One post per subject is enough. Continue this discussion in: https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1641251#1641251

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