Am considering buying a Panasonic VDR-M30 DVD. Already have the HS2
DVD recorder/player. Can I play a DVD-RAM created by the camcorder in
the HS2? Although the HS2 will take a 2.8G DVD-RAM, the manual says
it may not be able to play if recorded on a different device. Anyone
tried it?

By the way, the properties of the VDR-M30 camcorder video - recorded
at Xtra (high) quality are as follows:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 704 x 480, 29.97 fps
Field Order B
(DVD-NTSC), 4 : 3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8800 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 48 KHz, Stereo

I have created a custom MPEG editing template in ULEAD MediaStudio Pro
7.01 and the frame accurate editing works great!

The Ulead "Smart Render" feature also works great.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

jerry@jonesgroup.net (Jerry Jones) wrote in message news:<f86036b9.0308110639.68aae13b@posting.google. com>...

Thanks guys. I'm gonna go for it.

Paul.

Jerry have you authored any dvd movie onto dvd-ram on any of your Panasonic
drives? Or edited them on your pc and replayed them on the M30?

I would like to transfer some mpegs from my PC to my E80 using dvd-ram. And
burn dvd-r's on the E80. I like the E80 editing and menu creation much more
than any PC software I have (Studio, ezcd 6, ...)

Phil

"Jerry Jones" <jerry@jonesgroup.net> wrote in message
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I've done the following:

1. Extracted the MPEG from the DVD-RAM recorded in the Panasonic
camcorder by placing the mini DVD-RAM disc into my Panasonic drives
and using ULEAD VideoStudio 7, ULEAD MediaStudio Pro 7, and ULEAD DVD
MovieFactory 2 and their DVD-VR Capture Plug-Ins to 'copy' the digital
information from the mini DVD-RAM disc to my computer's hard drive;

2. I've edited the MPEG using ULEAD VideoStudio 7 and ULEAD
MediaStudio Pro 7 (ULEAD Smart Render works great as long as your
editing template is adjusted to match the attributes of the Panasonic
MPEG source video);

3. I've authored the edited video using the Panasonic drives to DVD-R
and DVD-RW discs (and no re-encoding occurs!);

4. I've used the DVD-VR export Wizard in Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7 to
save back to large DVD-RAM discs after editing the MPEG.

I have not tried using the DVD-VR Wizard to save edited MPEG-2 to the
DVD-RAM mini disc for playback in my camcorder, but I'm sure it is
possible.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net