Professional DVD - Key Applications

The broad application is for users who wish to lay down video content to DVD in the shortest possible time, without having to go via a separate PC, while still retaining access to a sophisticated menu system. The finished DVD is easy to browse, with Titles (main sections of video) and Chapters (sub-sections of each Title) all having numbers, names and thumbnail images for easy and rapid identification.

Applications

• Archiving
• Videography and Weddings
• Live Events or a Day's Filming
• Industrial and Medical
• Localised one-off Distribution of video material
• Continuous Loop Display for Exhibitions and Retail Stores

Archiving

The archiving of existing video material from cassette onto DVD is one application for education, advertising agencies and other professional users of stored or archived video footage on cassette. Whether coming from VHS, S-VHS, U-matic or digital, the quality of encoding is excellent, whichever Video Bit Rate (VBR), from 9 Mbps through 2 Mbps, is selected as being appropriate for the quality of the original material. In advance of burning the disc, to assist in the selection of the best-suited VBR for the material which is to be transferred, the user can pre-sample the quality of the resultant encoded material by holding down the record button for longer than 2 seconds. The menu design facility allows customised and clear indexing of the archived footage. The BD-X200 can be record-paused while a different cassette is inserted or the format of video deck is changed, causing just another chapter point to be marked.

• High quality hardware encoding, especially valid for analogue composite sources.
• One-hit, simple, PC-free process. Can be performed by other than expert PC user.
• Massive time-saving. No triple handling of video (Encoding, authoring, recording)
• Pre-sampling of VBR to optimise the archiving process.
• Customised menu system allows efficient index marking and logo marking.
• Mixed video formats, cassettes can all feature in same title.
• Longevity of DVD-R format is 30 yrs minimum.

Videography and Weddings

The wedding photographer, anxious for a quick turn-around, can quickly and easily create his DVD master copy, directly dubbed down from his edited NLE master, using BD-X200 in "DV slave mode" with the NLE controlling the dub. This so-called DV Emulation mode in a DVD recorder is unique to JVC. Not only is this process fast, but also the BD-X200’s automated and customised menu creation system means that no time has to be spent structuring the master DVD. The videographer is now left to do no more than apply text labels to the ready-numbered Titles & Chapters, whilst ensuring that the automatically pre-selected thumbnail image for each Title & Chapter is appropriate and not in need of re-selection. The menu background and style would be his customised one that he had already prepared in Easymenu and downloaded. Duplication would be done in his normal way by a third party system or supplier, using the JVC-made DVD as the master. If only another few copies are required very urgently, then a full DVD can be dubbed across from one BD-X200 to another in just 25 mins, including finalisation.

• Direct-to-disc from NLE, using unique "slave mode" saves time and trouble.
• One-hit, simple, PC-free process. Can be performed by other than expert PC user.
• Customised menu gives appropriate and individualised “look and feel” to the DVD
• Rapid replication possible with a second BD-X200

Live Events or a Day's Filming

Live sporting and musical events can be recorded and finalised within minutes of coming to an end. Similarly the BD-X200 can be used to create the film rushes or digital dailies. Additionally, by using the GY-DV5000 or GY-DV5001 with the BD-X200 set to "trigger mode",the BD-X recorder will start, pause and stop recording in conjunction with the camcorder’s record trigger. The resultant DVD is an exact replica of what is on tape or in the Hard Disk Drive of the DR-DV5000.

• Immediacy of recorded video footage on DVD. Just 15 mins max to finalise.
• Facility of using BD-X200 as additional simultaneous DVD disc recorder.
• Customised menu gives appropriate and individualised “look and feel” to the DVD
• Customised menus, at Chapter level as well as at Title level, provide a clear and permanent means of disc identification and video clip selection.

Industrial and Medical

To record events as they happen, direct to disc, is the BD-X200's strength here. Start, Pause and Stop is all that is wanted. No editing required. Material can be recorded directly from the scope or camera and be quickly available in a format that can be archived, despatched or played back on a PC or a laptop.

In addition: (a) the hospital or clinic can apply its own logo, colours and areas for patient details, date etc through JVC’s Easymenu freeware; (b) the BD-X200 can be set to perform session recording, so that, without the need to finalise it, the DVD-R disc can be removed, stored and then hours, days or months later, be recorded to again. Thus a doctor, researcher or production manager can accumulate video at different times, on the same disc. In-between times the unfinalised disc can still be perfectly well played back on the BD-X200.

• Direct-to-disc. No messing around with PCs and external authoring systems.
• Rapid availability of disc after event for archiving, despatching or displaying.
• Longevity of DVD.
• Customised disc. Clear labelling within menu.
• Session recording keeps all relevant material, over time, all on the same disc.
• Full medical version available in late Summer 2004

Localised one-off Distribution of video material

Whenever video material, whether at low or high quality, needs to be sent to a client or to another company, then the BD-X200 is the ideal way to produce a one-off DVD for despatch. The DVD itself will be playable in any consumer, PC or professional DVD player. Furthermore, because of the seamless way that the BD-X200 handles the recording at chapter transition points, when the client views the DVD, even on a low-cost consumer deck, there will be no glitches at chapter transitions.

• Rapid copy process
• Facility of using BD-X200 as additional simultaneous DVD disc recorder
• Low-cost DVD-R medium
• Easy to put in post
• Universal and ubiquitous playback format of DVD irrespective of source format
• Glitch-free playback, even on low-cost decks

Continuous Loop Display for Exhibitions and Retail Stores

A standard DVD player will always stop at the end of a Title and display the Menu. However JVC has introduced a feature whereby the DVD disc can seamlessly return to the start of the video and continue playing, without showing the menu.

For Continuous Loop to operate, you must use a DVD disc which has been recorded in BD-X200. Therefore the target markets are stores and companies exhibiting who want seamless, endless, digital, high quality audio and video, with no clogging or worn heads.

• Clear, clean video and audio
• No blank screens. No rewind period.
• Easy self-authoring.