DVD-R vs. DVD+RW
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From: Bob on 24 Dec 2005 08:31 On 24 Dec 2005 01:09:31 -0800, cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com wrote: >I've never seen a video DVD writer program that does multi-session >DVD video, Some of the DVD Authoring applications will let you make additions at a later time. -- "There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth." -- Niels Bohr
From: billh on 24 Dec 2005 10:10 <cmashieldscapting(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1135415371.558331.45210(a)o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > From: JimK <1al...(a)gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:16:53 GMT > > I've never seen a video DVD writer program that does multi-session > DVD video, even though a standalone DVD Recorder does it all the time. > > As usual, the more I ask, the more possible things to go wrong I learn. > At worst, I could have paid extra for DVD+RW disks that say they hold > over two hours' worth of material, and then find the machine I bought > won't record more than one session so the potential amount of material > on the DVD is moot. At the very worst, maybe the darn thing won't even > play in my player! I already put five days of blood, toil, sweat, and > tears into those titles and am VERY proud of them! I'll be very upset > if I either can't use them at all, or have to set up the video camera > in front of the computer and record a blurry copy that way as there's > no way to transfer it! But I won't completely give way to despair > until I have a chance to examine the DVD burner and the manual--perhaps > all is not lost. Happy Holidays or whatever it is we're calling the > Season's Events now. > > Cori > Man, you are way too uptight on this. You have your pride and joy videos on your computer and unless your disk crashes and you don't have a backup there isn't really a problem. Burn them onto a DVD and give it a whirl; if it doesn't work try again. People are burning DVDs in the so-called DVD format with the .vob files etc and some are just burning mpegs as data files and playing them. You aren't going to lose your work but you just have to go through a bit of a learning curve on what you really need. This stuff isn't real simple because of all the formats, both file and media, differences in players, etc, but most modern stuff pretty well handles everything. If you don't have a backup, I would first burn all my work files as DATA files so they can be restored in case of a major disaster. Then you can fool with any authoring or various formats. billh
From: cmashieldscapting on 24 Dec 2005 16:44 Wow, the more I ask, the more answers I receive, the more confused I become! People have recommended both Toast 6 and Toast 7 as a method (is that the right word or am I not understanding the concept here?) to use. Guess I will have to follow the link Jim provided and find out what they are, what they do, and how to get them. Also, the reason I bought +RW disks and TWO of them at that is that it seems ANYTHING I do needs to be done about ten times to be right ONE time (hence five days to get titles that play the way I want) and the thought of a "write-once" disk scares me. You know that song, "Mamma's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird"? If this doesn't work, then that, if that doesn't work, the next, and so on. If the +RW disk won't play in my VCR, I will try playing it on my combo drive in my Mac. If it plays, I'll see if there's a way to connect the VCR to the Mac and copy it to videotape from that so I can finish the rest of the project! If that won't work, I'll copy it either from the +RW disk or (if I dare!) directly from whatever format seems best to a -R disk my friend gave me. The reason I don't go direct from the Mac to the VCR, besides the generational loss of digital to tape, (the VCR is made to copy from DVD so I hope tapes made from a DVD would come out clear as opposed to trying to take the movie directly off the Mac but maybe I should experiment with both before making anything permanent) is that I want the opening titles at the beginning, the middle title in the middle, the closing titles at the end, and the outtakes after that, and if I have to string them all together into ONE project I don't see HOW I can put them where I want on the tape without a DVD I can start and stop playing (hopefully) at will and (hopefully) see where I am on it! That's the reason I want the disk. I assume anything copied to my hard drive will play the same way as on iMovie--all the way through. Well, I guess it would work if I could still select clips and then play ONLY the INDIVIDUAL clips I want. Otherwise it would be a NIGHTMARE! Opening title would be fine, as I could simply record over all the stuff after it which I don't want, but then how to make the middle and end titles come out right if the whole thing must be played as one "unit"? (Presumably clips in other forms can't still be reordered like they can in iMovie--certainly not from DVD--but of course I haven't tried any of these formats let alone every one.) If none of these work, then I panic. Cori
From: Daniel Cohen on 24 Dec 2005 17:27 Bob <spam(a)uce.gov> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:52:22 +0000, danspam(a)f2s.com (Daniel Cohen) > wrote: > > >But for DVD players, > >the ones whose specifications I have seen mention only DVD -R?RW and say > >nothing about the + formats. > > Which ones? Specifically, the Pioneer 585 (which a French comparison site sayd *does* work with + as well as -) but also a JVC catalogue and a Panasonic one. It seems quite consistent over different makes, that DVD recorders are specific about what they can use, but players aren't. -- Send e-mail to the Reply-To address; mail to the From address is never read
From: Bob on 25 Dec 2005 10:55
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 05:34:18 GMT, JimK <1alpha(a)gmail.com> wrote: >You should experiment with a small movie till you got it all figured >out, DVD+RW saves from the coaster's. Export to HD first, then RW later. -- Merry Christmas! http://www.illwillpress.com/xmas.html |