DVD Recorders for Editing « Videomaker Community Forums

nobody
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I'm considering the purchase of a DVD recorder to replace my VCR. Has anyone tried using a DVD recorder to manually edit? I'm so used to my linear system with pre-roll and all. I wonder if it's as easy.

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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Be sure to get one with a built in hard drive. I just got the Panasonic DMR-E100HS a couple of weeks ago. I think it is State-of-the-Art today. Editing is very crude. Cuts only using your IR remote. Everything uses the IR remote. If you want excellent quality and speed in making DVD's then the E100 is the way to go. I love my E100 but forget fancy titles and cool transitions. There are several stupid restrictions all in the name of "preventing copying of commercial DVD's". Like: you can't copy from any DVD-R to the hard drive. You can only copy from a DVD-RAM to the hard drive and then it erases your DVD-RAM (can't have 2 copies of anything in your possession. The firewire DV-IN will accept DV from your MiniDV or D8 camcorder but not from your computers DV output (somehow it can tell the difference). The manual for the E100 is a total joke. This is a complicated machine. To bad they didn't write a manual that could help you learn how to operate it. But the machine does a great job once you figure out it's quirks, cripple factors and complexities. I am not sorry I got mine (yet).

Dave

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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Thanks very much for the insight. I'm actually leaning toward a similar model from Panasonic, the EMR-50. I do not require the digital inputs or the hard drive (or do I)as everything will get transfered from VHS or S-VHS. I'm hoping the DVD-RAM will be close enough. All I really want to do is be able to dump everything onto the DVD-RAM, then cut and reassemble scenes from there. No transitions required, or I can add a fade-in or out as I'm digitizing. I've watched the POP video at the store and downloaded the manual from Panasonic. It appears I can trim scenes and rearrange them. After that I don't know. I'm hoping the scenes will play together without interuption or glitches. If all else fails, I'm content with just start and pause like I used to do with my two VCRs. Just have to adjust my timing to compensate for lack of pre-roll! (or do I?)

Thanks again to anybody else with any ideas on these new machines.

Posted 8 years ago #
browner
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The hard drive makes it easier to make more than one copy.

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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I've been looking at the new Sony DVD player/recorder. Compared to the other models, it looks like it has some decent fairly editing capabilities. Has anyone got any hands-on experiences or comments on it? (I'd be interested to see how it performs, versus the Panasonic or Philips DVD player/recorders.)

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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Good point about the hard drive. I guess I could edit to DVD-R and finalize it. That way I could use my other DVD player as a slave and burn copies using the DVD recorder. I don't think it would play a DVD-RAM. I'll have to pull the manual.

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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why edit on dvd reorders.....exactly what would you gain besides the old linear way of assembling? get into a Casablanca Prestige for 2800. It has real time..easy to learn (I learned it in 2 evenings, and im a dinasour) it has the dvd-r burner in it...has a gazillion trasitions, a sweet titling package, 4 stereo tracs and you can fake ab rolls all day long....once in the hard drve you can burn a 2 hour dvd in 20minutes...........all in one unit!

Posted 8 years ago #
nobody
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I have been trying to find a way...ANY way to use my DVDs that I have recorded (both SVIDEO original sources and digital DV) to re-assemble new videos without going back to the original tapes. The reason for this is that I tried using my Pinnacle AV analog box to capture and archive my many SVIDEO tapes, but always get an inferior video with a rainbow color affect. So, I purchased a new Philips DVD recorder, and got SUPER results! The DVD is a good as the original tape with no color artifacts and no discernable degredation in quality. So, now all I want to do is capture video from those recordings. On inquiring with Pinnacle, they say their product can't do it. Is there any editing software that can do that?? I can't believe there aren't lots of others out there who want to do this same thing.

Posted 8 years ago #