HD to SD scaler (component to firewire)

[UBCi]

Our church is about 1500 on sundays.
We have Panasonic AV-HS300G HD mixer. 3 HD cameres and PC with DVI out. Mixer can input HD signal via component (what we currently using) and SDI (HD or SD). The reason we do component is because HD camera with SDI it too expancive. We use HD component out from mixer (it also has SDI out but we never use it). We also have 2 canon projectors and 2 52" LCDs. Everything we show is HD. Now we are thinking to record all videos to DVD, which needs to be converted to SD signal first. We have a DVD recorder with firewire input that we want use for recording.
The bottom line: HD component signal to be recorded to SD DVD.
Anyone has any idea? Budget: below $500.

Thank you.

[[Director] drew ryan]

It seems to me that Blackmagic Designs has a down converter that would take you HDSDI out to an RGB SD signal. Of course I am assuming that you have RGB in on your DVD Recorder.

[sadlerjon]

You say "record to DVD" - do you mean Widescreen DVD or BlueRay?

[UBCi]

Originally Posted by drew ryan

It seems to me that Blackmagic Designs has a down converter that would take you HDSDI out to an RGB SD signal. Of course I am assuming that you have RGB in on your DVD Recorder.

DVD recorder has 3 inputs: firewire, svideo, and composite. It doesnt have RGB. I guess in my case, the best video quality would be thru firewire?

[prochlea]

I guess in my case, the best video quality would be thru firewire?

Honestly, I doubt that it's much better than just running composite. I'd hook the camera up via firewire and record some test video, then hook it up composite and record some test video. I would bet that it's not that much different.

If it is - you could try this

[UBCi]

i guess, all i need is just downconverter with component input (or hd sdi) and firewire output. Anyone suggesting anything? Price - below $500.