If using a laptop, you would need an external USB case: you install your bare E50 drive in the case and close it back up, basically converting it into a "portable" external USB HDD. Tho I suspect the DMR-E50 used the old EIDE HDD connection instead of the now-standard SATA: if so, a newer PC might require an additional addpter to run a EIDE hard drive. Since I am not going to be using the unit going forward, how would I hook the hard drive to my pc? If you have a desktop PC, it should have an open spare hard drive bay inside where you can just temporarily install the HDD. In other words, these units are PITAs by design, and it's a matter of finding ways to mitigate and alleviate the inevitable butthurt that they're bound to trigger. Search for his older posts on this topic, example thread here discusses convenience modifications one can make to the recorder for this workflow:īut writing to DVD-RW disks and reading from DVD-RW disks one by one is painfully slow and tedious, as opposed to extracting the whole contents of a HDD in one go, so I get why someone would favor the second method, however awkward it may be. VH member jwillis84 was instrumental in helping the developer of ISObuster add the ability to read and copy files from proprietary DVD recorder HDDs. Proceed with caution, and if you expect to do this as a routine its best to modify your DMR-E50 so the HDD can remain outside the case for easy access (or add an adapter to record directly on a CF memory card instead of a hard disk). While this is doable on an occasional basis, its a PITA to do constantly, and these recorders do NOT like having their HDD yanked out and replaced often.
It requires removing the HDD from your DMR-E50, connecting it to your PC to copy the files, then re-installing the HDD in your Panasonic for further recording. However, this workflow is not convenient as an everyday method.
It is also now possible to harvest the video files from a Panasonic HDD and copy them to your PC using newer versions of ISObuster software. The unit does not allow moving recordings from HDD to SD card or USB. The easiest method remains to do rough editing on the units HDD, high-speed lossless dub to reusable DVD-RW, rip the RW to your PC, then do your final edits there in an authoring suite (or repackage the edited DVD files as standard MPGs).
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