D8 To DVD Question(s)

[pbmc59]

I have many D8 tapes I haven't captured, compressed, authored and burned. I was able to do this with about ten hours of D8 tapes with the help from people here about six years ago, but have many more tapes I haven't kept up with. I'm sure my TMPGEnc Plus 2.5 is out of date by now, so I'm here to ask if it's viable now to take the output of my camcorder D8 tape, run it into the input of a DVD recorder and get at least two hours of good quality video on a DVD? I haven't even kept up with DVD capacity.
The camcorder is a Sony D8 DCR-TRV530. It has a firewire DV connection( I think this is an I/O) as well as an AV plug.
Please let me know, and possibly what units are out there. Is there an easy way for me to do this?
Thanks for your time.

[johns0]

Connect your camera to computer firewire and capture as dv and then encode to mpeg dvd,much better picture quality than standard mpeg capturing by dvd recorder unless your dvd recorder has firewire built in.

[pbmc59]

OK, so all I need is a DVD recorder that has a firewire input? Is the firewire connection called anything else? Sony doesn't call it "firewire" in their documentation. They call it a DV connection. Any suggestions on DVD recorder? Thanks

[loster]

firewire was several names including i.Link for sony
dvd recorder with firewire port will create mpeg --> dvds easily and with good quality may not be as good as a computer or you may not be able to tell depending on the quality of the original footage

[pbmc59]

Just another question; Looking briefly at the DVD recorders, what format should I want? What's the most usable/compatible end format to have? There is +R, -R, RW, etc...I just want to be able to view these DVDs down the road and now. Thanks

[solarfox]

Just another question; Looking briefly at the DVD recorders, what format should I want? What's the most usable/compatible end format to have? There is +R, -R, RW, etc...I just want to be able to view these DVDs down the road and now. Thanks

Any DVD player made within the last few years should be able to handle +R or -R media equally well; however, if you want the widest possible compatibility with the widest possible range of all the DVD players you might run across, DVD-R generally has the edge.

That being said, the brand of media you use will have even more of an impact on readability and longevity. For single-layer DVD-R, Taiyo Yuden Premium is widely considered to be the only way to go if you actually care about your data. Don't trust anything off the retail shelves; they're all re-branded discs that come from whatever manufacturer they can get them from the cheapest.

[zoobie]

While Taiyo Yuden is still the disputed king but is available online only, Verbatim is the next best and available at local stores in the States.
I've only bought Verbatim when on sale from places like Staples and online at www.newegg.com
I've never had a bad burn yet...and thru 100's of burns
I goofed once myself..but it wasn't the disc's fault.
I thru away the disc...What's 13 cents between me and the trash can?

[j.man]

All DVD recorders I've seen use the Firewire 400 4-pin connector (see image: http://www.thecableshack.com.au/product_images/i/94_4444__14317.jpg ), so make no mistake about the size.

If the DVD player doesn't have Firewire, just connect the camera to the DVD recorder's input with some kind of RCA cable (probably the Sony's custom one), or the camera to a scart adapter with the RCA cable and the scart adapter into the DVD input, depending on what you'll find at the back of your DVD recorder.