Posted by Jacques E. Bouchard on 11/24/07 15:52

"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in
news:5qqbenF10v6stU1@mid.individual.net:

> When I get back, I'm going to have to ask you to point me to a
> tutorial on burning HD DVDs on standard DVD-Rs. I edit in Premiere
> Pro CS3 and author in Encore CS3. I know that neither of them can do
> this. I hate the thought of buying additional expensive software,
> just to have a way to watch my HD material, but I may have no choice.

I put together a dedicated PC as home theater system and connected
directly to my HDTV's HDMI port. No more compatibility problems. I can
store in any format I want or juet leave the video on my HD. With my home
theater hooked up to my home LAN, I never have to burn DVDs just to watch
a video.

> Incidentally, update on using the HV-20 -- shot some more video here
> in Dali. This thing eats batteries! My usual modus operandi is to
> leave my camera on and just press "start" when I see something I want
> to shoot. With the larger batteries in my VX2000, I could go for 5 or
> 6 hours like that (unless it was very, very cold). The HV-20 gets me
> no more than 2 hours or so. Not bad, I suppose (and the batteries are
> much, much smaller), but not good enough for what I do. Right now,
> I've only 2 batteries. I think I'll buy another 3 or 4 (and another
> charger) when I get back.

I bought no-name batteries for my HV20 for $3 each on ebay. They last
about 2 hours each, so I bought 4. I also got a charger from the same
vendor for about $9.

jaybee

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