Saving files to a camcorder

PeterMac wrote on 8/22/2002, 4:07 PM
Does anyone know of any software that will allow you to save files other than AVI to DV tape?
After completing a Vegas project it would be nice to save all the WAVs, Project files, JPEGs and MPEGs, as well as the AVI clips, out to tape so that you could quickly recreate the project folder in case of need. Otherwise, you have to recapture and it all becomes a pain.
Even a DVD is not big enough for this sort of thing, and I don't have a streamer. However, the camcorder itself has all the necessary bits to be a streamer, it only needs the right software to make it all work.
Any ideas?


-Pete

Comments

jetdv wrote on 8/22/2002, 4:15 PM
See:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?Forum=4&MessageID=115623
FuTz wrote on 8/22/2002, 4:22 PM
That would be hell of a good idea! The only way I see this -right now- is putting the clips used in the project on tape and create an edit list. A rubber band and you put this printed list around the DV case and... hum... voilà...
I sure would like a feature that makes what you're looking for: I've been keeping around 240Go of stuff on my system cause it's kind of like a "work in slow progress" and I even can't delete what I've been doing so far cause I'm worried about changing things in one sequence or another and that would be complicated... BUT so easy with a solution like that.
Maybe you should submit a request to Sonic Foundry; they've got a place on their site for this.
Copy-paste this whole topic so they'll know you're not alone to ask for it!
Control_Z wrote on 8/22/2002, 5:11 PM
Actually, someone did write a program to do this - mostly as an exercise to see if it was possible. It is, but as with analog tape solutions error prevention demands you write the material at least 3 times.

Sorry I can't remember the name of the program. I don't think anyone actually used it since it's so slow and small compared to DVD (1 hour miniDV tape /3 = only about 4G of storage). And of course it takes a whole hour to read and write.

While we're waiting for the 20G Blu-ray DVDs next year I don't have a big problem. All my source footage is still on tape so a few images, some mp3s, and the .veg file can easily be backed up to cdr.
PeterMac wrote on 8/23/2002, 11:31 AM
Whoops!

Didn't realise there was a similar thread so recently. Thanks for the link.

-Pete
DougHamm wrote on 8/23/2002, 1:25 PM
On a related note, one of my things to do for _audio_ work is this:

Rather than burn a Redbook audio CD from the timeline, I export each track separately to .wav files. (I use Nero to actually create the CD image because I prefer to have CD-TEXT info added to the disc.) After burning the audio CD from Nero, I will then use Nero's ability to save a .iso image of the audio CD. I then burn the created .iso file, as well as all album art, production notes, etc. to a _data_ CD which I use from that point onward as my backup. This way I have one CD with both a perfect copy of the master Redbook CD image, and all support files.

Granted, I haven't created an CD yet that's the full capacity of an 80-minute CDR; in this case there wouldn't be any leftover room for data.

-Doug