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Mini-DV transfer to DVD over Firewire

 

 


X-LohnieM
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Jul 22, 2003, 8:38 PM

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Is it possible to directly transfer (in it's original digital format) video from my Mini-DV camera in one Firewire port and back out another Firewire port to an external DVD burner? I'd like to buy the Plextor external DVD writer, but I want to know if it will work that way.
Any help is appreciated!
LohnieM


X-Jerry_Jones
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Jul 23, 2003, 1:34 PM

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DV video is data recorded on tape.
When transferred via Firewire to one's PC hard drive, the data becomes a DV .avi file.
If one wishes to store the DV .avi on a DVD disc, then one could do any of the following:
1. Copy the DV .avi file to a DVD-RAM disc using simple drag and drop;
2. Use a data DVD program to burn the DV .avi file to a DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW disc;
3. Convert the DV .avi file into MPEG and then author the resulting file to disc using an authoring program.
In addition, there are programs - such as Ulead MediaStudio Pro - that will transcode DV video to MPEG-2 on the fly and record the MPEG file directly to a DVD disc in real time.
Here's the features list for Ulead MediaStudio Pro:
<a target=_new href="http://www.ulead.com/msp/new.htm">http://www.ulead.com/msp/new.htm</a>
Jerry Jones
<a target=_new href="http://www.jonesgroup.net">http://www.jonesgroup.net</a>