Questions concerning standalone DVD recorders ... ?

[touchdownfsu]

1. Can you hook DV camcorders up to standalone DVD recorders and record the footage onto DVD? If so, what is the quality, and how does it compare to using a PC to author the DVD's?

2. Say I want a 6 hour video, can I record the entire six hours onto one DVD-R disc using a standalone DVD recorder? Bitrate adjustment? I am just using this as an example, I know the quality would be terrible.

Thanks in advance,
Jason.

[touchdownfsu]

Anybody?

[gab2001uk]

Yes you can, very easily, but as you say 6 hrs on one DVD is going to be very poor quality. Plenty of info here: http://www.dvdplusrw.org/

[Hardcoreruss]

Quality would be vcd quality if you were going with vcd quality of 1150 kbps

[Tearren]

-Jason

1) On a Panasonic DMR-HS2 (what I have), it has a DV input. If your camcorder has S-video and/or A/V outputs you could use that method too. The quality is very good at SP mode (2 hours). It would be ok on LP mode probably a little better than VCR quality (4 hours). I would not even attempt EP (6 Hours). Menus made from the Panasonic are very simple. For home movies, I transfer them to a PC, aurthor with DVD-Lab and burn from my PC DVD burner. This is for numerous reasons, those being compatibility, speed of making copies and better DVD menus.

See here for more detail: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=179093&highlight=

2) Yes you could. It would adjust the bitrate for you. As you know the quality would not be good using 6 hour speed at all.

I have converted home movies from a digital camcorder with excellant results.

Tearren