s-video out and recording

Hanns · Post by **Hanns** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:51

Has anyone experience with recording via 's-video out' on videocard and 's-video in' on a dvd-recorder with HDD? Does that works and if so, does it drop frames?

VJ Nexus · Post by **VJ Nexus** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 17:40

that's perfect. when i play shows, i amplify and split my s-video signal, and almost always have one going right into a dvd recorder and it workes perfectly. I've tried on 3 different dvd recorders, never with an hdd but i can't imagine why it wouldn't work just as well. You're set.

Kind of on the same note - i've always insisted i get an audio line in from the mixing board for effect driving... splitting this and running into dvd recorder also and you've got a perfect recording of the entire performance. The audio line is actually part of my contract...

BuckRogers · Post by **BuckRogers** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 01:07

I have exactly the same experiance as Nexus.Recording works brilliant! I also use the line out from the DJ mixer.

Beware before you buy; watch carefully to the back of the device. Look if there are enogh options for line input.

I bought this one, the HDD Sony RDR-HX710:

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Manwell · Post by **Manwell** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:45

I am considering buying a dvd recorder to record live mixes, but I would like to be able to transfer my mix back to the computer to use the video again in other mixes. What format does the dvd record as and is the footage easy to use with premiere or after effects?

BuckRogers · Post by **BuckRogers** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 22:02

When burned to DVD it spits out regular DVD vob files. Information from G-spot: MPEG-2 program stream. Size 720x576, 25 fps, pixel ratio 1,066.

Did a little test:
As known, Premiere takes no vob files. So I copied a vob file from the DVD to my HD and renamed the vob file into mpeg. Then I imported this mpeg file into Premiere, it takes it with no problem.

In Premiere I cut out a piece of 1 minute and recompressed it to an 640x480 uncompressed avi 30 fps. (At first time I tried to compress directly into Indeo, but this gave enormeous framedrops.) When the uncompressed avi was finished, I imported it into After Effects and compressed the file to Indeo. Et voila, smooth as hell.

Tested the output in Resolume and mixed it with some other footage; perfect!:D