wouldn't it be much easier to record it on fast disk (to prevent performance issues) and copy to usb3 device or clouddrive .
that way the editor can import it in proper dvd authoring software , add some menus and titling and burn it.

hardly any extra work, but much more flexible (eg recording doesn't has to be timed to the second, because a snip is quite easy in author software etc)

M@ik

Not necessarily. In our case, we record direct to DVD (and to SSD), and immediately after service burn anywhere from 11 to 22 copies of the DVD for distribution. Depending on the service, some of the congregation will want copies right away. Other copies are distributed later to the home bound.

I wonder if an output from vMix could be sent to something like Cyberlink's PowerDirector Right-To-Disc, which burns a video stream straight to disc in real time. (Something else to add to my checklist of things to try)

Dion

For anyone interested:

I was referring to PowerProducer (*not* PowerDirector, I got them mixed up earlier).

I installed PowerProducer 6, which appears to be the most recent version, and it *sees* the vMix and vMix External as devices, but reports they are locked by another process. Bummer.

I tried various other ways to install a "virtual capture card" that vMix could send to and PowerProducer could read from, but no luck thus far.

The nice part was, it looked like in vMix I would be about to set the External output to SD in order to scale it down for DVD.

Currently it looks like if the Composite output device won't work to send to the standalone DVD recorder, then setting up a Record method to record the files to a DVD-compatible format and then using a DVD authoring tool to make the disc/iso may be the only route.

PowerProducer might be a dead product anyway. Not sure it's been updated in a couple of years or so. And it was the only one I could find that would take the input and send it directly to a DVD with no intermediate step.

Dion