ideas for recording direct to dvd from Vixia camcorders

[noreaga]

hello everyone,

I have been told to prepare a direct burning station here at work, but have hit a snag in that i have a few very hard to fullfill guidelines. I am hoping you guys her might have some idea i could explore

here is the project

we have to film a 2-2.5 hr hockey game at an arena away from our campus
a copy of the game in dvd must be in the hands of the visiting team coaching staff a maximum of 25 minutes after the end of the game
the size of the whole units needs to be able to fit into a small/medium bag as it will travel (power should not be a problem)
it has to relatively easy to use as the students we are dealing with aren't the best with attention to detail.

and the big kicker of this is i have to do this with under 400 cdn

if anyone has ideas id love to hear them as nobody really burns directly to dvd anymore im driving myself crazy with this

[aedipuss]

are you talking about buying a camera and hardware to make dvds? do you have a cam? if so what make/model? do you have a laptop with a dvd burner?

[noreaga]

ok sorry realised i left a few things out or may have the wrong forum altogether.

I am looking to buy hardware to work with Canon vixia hfm50 camcorders to burn dvd video as quickly as possible immediately after one of our college events.

what we already have:
Canon Vixia HFM50
we do have a laptop computer Intel Core i5-3320M 2.6GHz, 15.6” (1366x768) Anti-glare display, 4 GB Ram, 320 Gigabyte Hard drive, DVD/CD ±RW drive but so far tests we have run put finalizing/encoding process at 45 minutes using pinnacle software ( both direct capture through a dazzle usb video capture device & transferring the files then burning tried)
we have unlimited DVDs so that is not a problem.

thanks in advance !

[jman98]

we have to film a 2-2.5 hr hockey game at an arena away from our campus
a copy of the game in dvd must be in the hands of the visiting team coaching staff a maximum of 25 minutes after the end of the game

You're SCREWED. I can't think of any way this can realistically be done unless maybe you feed a camcorder directly into a DVD recorder that you leave running while it captures the video. DVD recorders are hard to find in the USA and Canada. In the USA your only choice for a new one is Magnavox. The situation should be similarly grim in Canada.

I'm quite serious about this - when your management starts giving you this kind of thing to do as if it were easy to do, you would do yourself a favor to have your resume ready as it's just going to be a matter of time before you either have to or want to find a new job.

[Bjs]

Sony DVDirect DVD Recorder VRDMC5

Camera to dvd direct ... some time will be used to make copy on a laptop ... but you'll have plenty to spare if quality media is used.

[smrpix]

You might be able to get there by swapping out SD cards at the period breaks and having someone transcoding on the computer as you go. That camera does not do HD-SD down conversion internally. Jman is right.

Alternately, if the opposing team will accept the H.264 files you could make them data disks.

[_Al_]

camcorder , more SD cards, swap them occasionally and encode it in the laptop in the meantime, encoding would have to be real time, so with i5 laptop you need to resize to 640x360 or something like SD size, give them some flash stick (video should be about2GB -2-2.5 hours), they need some media player,

note you can easily encode 50p/60p (yadif bob, resize,) because of the nature of video , it is sport video , media players should handle that 50P/60P, it is going to be SD size

[noreaga]

Thank you guys im going to look into your idea and see what i can do !

some funny ones here thanks for the laugh jman !

ill report back a little later with results if anyone cares

once again thanks everyone!

[smrpix]

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