Looking for Quick DVD from DV camera

[Bismark]

A friend of mine videotapes meetings and is looking for the fastest way to just read the DV via firewire, cannon DV camcorder input, and write a DVD to give to the participants. No editing, no chapters, no nothing. What is fastest and perhaps low cost?

[Chuck Engels]

You can capture live to Premiere Elements, then burn the DVD or export to a folder.
Depending on the length of the meeting it will take about that long to burn the DVD.
If the Meeting is an hour long then it can take up to an hour to burn, then you have to make copies.

[Paul LS]

Cheapest way is to probably use a DVD recorder, the type you use with your TV. In the UK you can pick one up for less than $100. My Liteon has a DV input, hook up the camcorder and hit record on the DVD recorder and your done.

[Chuck Engels]

hook up the camcorder and hit record on the DVD recorder and your done.

Then you just need a way to make quick copies

[Paul LS]

Ummm, good point. Hit record again???

[Chuck Engels]

Think you just need a laptop and DVD Duplicator, maybe connected via USB?
I think there are even stand alone models, will make 4 copies of a DVD at a time in a matter of minutes.
There are larger units that do more DVDs at the same time, but they get pretty expensive.