Sony VRD-MC5 Portable DVD Burner

Michael T

Michael T

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Hey guys I just picked up one of these little Sony portable DVD burners to dump footage to so some of my clients can see all of their footage. I shoot some dance studios and they want to watch all of the footwork. We shoot a warm up session and then the final performance as well as some of the rehearsal and some of them go to nationals just after the final performances of the year and I believe this unit will save me a lot of time delivering them all the footage in a non HI REZ format on dvd. It has a lcd screen built to preview in and can record AVCHD from a Sony AVCHD HDD that can be played back on Blueray. It looks like you should be able to load it up and dump live to it from either DV - SVHS - or Composit. Either way you can dump to it and deliver dvds to a client cheap and quick and in the field if necessary and Its 12 volt.

I'll repost after I try it out this weekend. It seems to be pretty solidly built.

Its the Sony VRD-MC5 which I bought at Costco for $189.0
 
The screen is 2 inches but hi rez it looks great. The only thing I don't like is in dual layer mode it will only use dvd+ dual layer disks. I have now used it and its a great little unit and braindead easy to use. I'm really impressed with the hardware chip that they used to convert to mpeg2, the quality is great. I have now done some transfers with a canon xl1 and the hvx200 and wow the dvds look really good. I believe there better than software conversions that I have done for years. I'm going to test it this weekend to see if it will run under the firewire mode while recording.
It will start and stop while recording video from the cameras when starting and stoping the camera so hopefully it will work while recording. also on the hvx200 if you turn on the menu showing the timecode it will feed out so you can do a timecode burn on top of the dvd which is cool.
 
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