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redfish

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I have a panasonic hmc 150 that I will use this year to film our football team during games at night. After the game the coach has to have the raw footage asap for Saturday film study. What is the quickest way to get the footage off my 32gig chip to a dvd for him, this needs to be done after the game while everyone is waiting to go home.... :) Is there a device I can just give him the chip and he could do it? I don't want to leave my 150 at the school overnight while he uploads the footage.

Note, there is no editing or cutting of the footage, just raw footage... thank you in advance for your help...
 
stefanhuberfilms said:
i guess the coach owns a laptop/computer... simply give him the sd card and a card reader, and he should play it back in VLC...
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It has to be put on DVD to swap with other schools for theirs... so if I give him the SD card he still doesn't have it in dvd form.... I guess it's simple enough to "burn" one... Is there one program better than another for quickly burning a dvd without all the menus and special effects, etc... just like a quick burn...
 
If the other coach is happy with just the raw camera files on a data DVD, that he/she will later view on a computer, then yes there are plenty of options including the DVD writing software built into Windows. But I am guessing the coaches want a normal video DVD they can watch on their home television, and the issue there is you need to transcode the camera footage into DVD-compatible mpeg2. Unless someone has an uber-laptop, I doubt folk want to wait around for the time that will take...

Is mailing a DVD the next morning an option?
 
The AVCHD format you are shooting to with the HMC-150 is heavily compressed in HD. Since you are filming a football game, I'm assuming 90-120 minutes of footage? There's no way you are going to get it on DVD that night unless you are able to hook up a DVD recorder to the analog outs of the camera and record along with the camera. It will simply take too long unless you're going to have some massive workstation that can crunch through it quickly enough.

If hooking a DVD recorder up is not an option, the next best thing you can do is shoot in 720p only (unless you need full 1080 for some reason) as that won't be so much to downrez. It will still not be available until the next day.
 
You could always just get a dual layer dvd data disk and just dump the raw video file on the disk. You can play them with windows media player and other players as well. Dig down the folder tree :- Private/avchd/bdmv/stream and all the raw files there can be played straight off a data dvd.
 
Garion said:
You could always just get a dual layer dvd data disk and just dump the raw video file on the disk. You can play them with windows media player and other players as well. Dig down the folder tree :- Private/avchd/bdmv/stream and all the raw files there can be played straight off a data dvd.
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You are also giving the average joe way too much credit. The idea is probably to pop it in to any standard DVD player and be able to watch the footage, not load it into a PC and run a separate program in order to see it.
 
Understood, but I think Garion's idea has merit. It's certainly the fastest and easiest way to do it, it'd have the coach on the road in no time, and clicking files on a DVD shouldn't be any harder than watching them in a DVD player.

I guess your choices are to author out a DVD (slow & painful), give 'em a copy on a DVD-ROM (meaning hassle for them), or do a realtime playout to a recording DVD player (which will take as long as however much footage you shot). What else is there?
 
Gary Huff said:
You are also giving the average joe way too much credit. The idea is probably to pop it in to any standard DVD player and be able to watch the footage, not load it into a PC and run a separate program in order to see it.
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Geez, over here it's the complete opposite, I often get DVD's that I pop into a player only to face-palm when I see the file menu. Some people don't even bother to use a free DVD authoring program.
 
Yeah, I've just found that 99% of the time, a client means a video DVD disc instead of just data, and there's no proper term to distinguish the two. People refer to both as just "DVD".
 
If they just want SD-DVD, maybe consider sending out the camera's RCA signal to an inexpensive DVD recorder.

Looking forward to the days those accursed discs complete their obsolescence.
 
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