WHat is the best way to Author a DVD from live source?

[pdailey16]

O.K. I will try and be short and to the point. I have a business idea, but I'm not sure about some of the logistics. I have a Sony HVR-HD 1000U Camera and I am wanting to capture and burn at the same time using something similar to Studio 11. Is there a portable DVD burner out there (either USB or Firewire) that would work. Each DVD that I burn would only be about 3-4 minutes long and I would like to at least have a menu. Any ideas?

[FulciLives]

Any decent stand alone DVD recorder will "capture real time" and result in a basic DVD Video disc with a simple front menu. Some make a menu that is more fancy than others but it will be fairly simple I think no matter what but it will be functional and ready-to-go quickly.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[tomlee59]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. If all you want is the DVD as the one and only result of this operation, then I don't understand why you want the baroque combination of a camcorder and "portable dvd burner." Why not just buy a DVD camcorder instead? Instead of two separate unwieldy modules that have to be interconnected and separately powered up, you have a single unit that records directly onto DVD media, which DVD is then immediately (well, almost immediately) playable in a standalone player.

Is there a specific reason you need the two separate boxen?

[pdailey16]

Thanks for the replies FulciLives and tomlee59, and yes, I have considered both using a DVD recorder and a DVD Camcorder, however, I am trying to use a custom menu that matches the DVD labels and DVD Jackets for that "Package" look, and I didn't know of anything other than programs like Pinnacle Studio that I could do that with. That's why I was asking, to see if anyone had actually done anything like this, and what equipment/software they used to author the DVD.

[videopoo]

There was a stand alone system a while back that was used to record live performances for sales afterwards. Can't remember the name but its no longer made. What is the idea if you don't mind saying?

[handyguy]

Dvd recorders let you select pretty menus.