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Posted by dubbah on 10/11/05 16:34
spinach47 wrote:
> When burning a DVD it takes 30+ hours.
> My goal is to copy over 50, 2-hour, family video tapes to DVD for my
> children and me.
> At this rate I won't live long enough to get them done.
>
> My computer is a Sony VAIO PCG-FRV31. It has a Celeron 2.4 Ghz CPU with 448
> mb of RAM.
> The OS is XP SP2.
> I first capture the home movie to an external hard drive. It is a Maxtor One
> Touch 100Gb drive.
> The DVD burner is a Sony DRX720UL 8x.
> The media is TDK DVD-R 8x discs.
> The burning software is Nero 6 Ultra Edition. It lets me know it won't fit
> on a single DVD but says it can compress it to make it fit. I respond OK.
> I was not connected to the internet while burning. I also stopped all
> processes I felt comfortable stopping during the burn.
You'd be better off to dub your videotapes onto a DVD recorder, which
would take only two hours per each tape!!!!
You can get a Sony or Panasonic DVD recorder which accesses dvd-r
blank
discs. You'll be able to do the job in less time than you ever
possible. Good luck!
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