I have the SONY RDR-GX7 DVD player/recorder, but I cannot work out how to output a finished DVD project from Pinnacle Studio 8 to the player.
In Studio 8, once you have MADE MOVIE, it places several files in a folder on the 'C' drive - but how do I copy these to the recorder?
It's driving me nuts!
The program that you are using expects that you have a DVD writer drive installed on your computer. Connected via a computer interface in which programs and the operating system have control over the drive in order to burn discs.
As far as I know, all DVD Authoring software works using that principle.
Your Sony machine (though it can write to blank DVDs) is more suited to the living room to record televsion programmes etc. than for use as a computer peripheral.
It might be that it has a 'Firewire' input which you may be able to utilise with certain software and hardware on the PC.
What video editing software, if any, are you using? What kind of video source material is involved? Is it from a camcorder? If so what make and model?
If you can output your edited movie from the timeline vie firewire or S-Video/composite, you will be able to record direct into your settop recorder.
The software may be expecting a 2 way conversation with your DVD recorder (handshaking) - DVD recorders don't do handshaking so some software will ignore the DVD Recorder altogether.
Can you export to a firewire camcorder?
If so you may be able to trick the computer into outputting to DVD simultaneously.
Hook up a camera/DV deck AND your DVD recorder both via firewire to seperate ports on the same firewire card.
With luck the software will see the camera and allow you to export - it should also pipe the same video via firewire to the DVD recorder - when it does just hit record on your DVD-R deck.
Gavin
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Thanks for all your comments.
To answer the questions one by one;
The Sony recorder does have a Firewire input.
I am editing video footage from a Sony Digital camcorder via firewire & then editing via Studio 8.
I could quite easily (I imagine) output the finished edited footage to the Sony DVD recorder, but only if I select the OUTPUT TO TAPE option (rather than MAKE A DISC), (or will it know that it is outputting to a DVD recorder rather than a camcorder?). The other question would be what about QUALITY?
When I MAKE A MOVIE & select DVD it takes ages to complete, whilst the MAKE A TAPE option is much quicker. Is this a quality issue?
And would the DVD menu disappear if I did this?
If it was me, I would export my edited work back to tape. Then I'd plug the camcorder into the DVD recorder, press play on the camera and record on the DVD recorder. I wouldn't bother with connecting the recorder directly.
Quality depends on the settings you chose on your DVD recorder.
Video DVDs store the files with MPEG compression. Your recorder does this using hardware acceleration in real-time.
When you are clicking MAKE A DISC on the computer, the conversion is done slowly by software, the resulting MPEG files are placed on your hard disk ready to be transferred to a blank DVD.
However, you cannot transfer those files to a blank DVD in the same way that I can using my internal Pioneer DVD writer. Nor can you make menus etc.
Hi,
it is easy to output your video to the DVD recorder. capture in firewire or s-video do the editing and create clips into avi format. And then simply connect the DVD recorder via s-video and then output to the DVD recorder. simple. You do not need to use the editing software to output to the recorder. Windows Media Player or any other player will do it for you.The quality in s-video is great your DVD recorder captures the avi file and changes it into mpeg2 files so you can watch it on your telly.If you need any help give me a call.
[This message has been edited by RMH (edited 22 August 2003).]
Thanks.
Although I haven't tried directly outputting to my DVD recorder yet, I'm pretty confident that I can do it via 'S', analogue or indeed firewire - but not in the DVD outputting mode in Studio 8.
The reason for wanting to do this is so that I can utilise the menus that Studio 8 offers me (my Sony recorder hasn't any).
Looks like I'll have to buy a PC DVD writer aswell!!
I have a similar problem, and I have both a Pioneer DVR-4000 and an internal DVD burner on my notepad.
I could output directly to the DVD recorder from my D8 camcorder, but I found that occasionally there would be little 'glitches' of fast moments in the video.
I thought this would be eliminated using the internal DVD writer, but I'm finding this not quite so simple an operation.
Does using the DVD internal burner, directly from my AVI files on my pc, give me a better quality DVD then outputting to the Pioneer, via the camcorder.
regards,
Glenn