I am interested in purchasing a stand alone dvd recorder for a youth center where I volunteer. We have bands play on Fri & Sat nights, and I have 4 cameras mounted throughout the center that feed into a mixer. I would like to take the video out of the mixer and into the DVD recorder. I don’t see any issues there.
What would be great, though, is if, during the recording, we would be able to hit a chapter mark or index mark to tag each song on the fly.
Can anyone tell me about their DVD recorder and how it deals with this sort of thing.
They’re great for recording, especially the Panasonic recorders.
What they suck at is menuing. For that as well as precise chapter stops, you need to import the video using TMPGenc DVD Author or ULEAD’s DVD Workshop to make a disc that is fully featured.
I have a Panasonic DMR-E50 and it does not have a function for marking chapter stops on the fly. In fact, you cannot even insert them when you edit unless you chop up the video into separate tracks. It automatically inserts chapters about every five minutes on a finalized disc. If you to edit on your computer from it (it uses DVD RAM discs), you have to have a DVD drive that can read them (Like the LG 4081B).
thanks for the info. I hope you can answer one followup question. What happens if you hit STOP during recording and then start recording again? Will that insert the chapter?