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Posted by Stuart Miller on 11/28/06 23:24
"horeb" <Dietrich.Schuhmann@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:1164732829.592786.97910@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am using a Sony RDR-HX919 DVD recorder. After the movie has been
> recorded to the hard drive, I/you can edit it. This is in particular
> helpful to hide advertisement sections. Thereafter I can record
> (dubbing) the movie to an external DVD disk. Hidden sections are taken
> out and the total length of the movie is getting shorter.
>
> I have now the following problem. On the disk the total movie might
> have a length of above 2 hours. Taking the advertisement out reduces
> the length in principle to something shorter, i.e. shorter than 2
> hours. This should fit to a normal single layer DVD disk (SL-DVD).
> BUT I cannot record it to the SL-DVD. Although initially the recoder
> tells me that the length of the movie fits to the SL-DVD it right away
> stops dubbing, since all of a sudden the disk cannot take the whole
> movie.
>
> I am clueless. Should it work? Should I change (somehow) the state of
> the movie with the hidden sections into something different, which
> makes it recordable on SL-DVD? Can I rerecord the movie on the HDD in
> a way that already all the hidden sections are taken out? New software
> on the recorder? Anything else?
>
> I have the assumption that it will work, if I take the movie apart in
> the advertisement sections. But I don't want this solution, since I
> cannot merge them again.
>
> Cheers.
>
In my experience a 2 hour movie will never fit on a single layer dvd. Most
you can get is about 90 minutes without either
- a second dvd, or a dual layer dvd
- some (perhaps not noticeable) reduction in quality
The easiest way to remove menus and ads is to use cloneDVD2 and AnyDVD. I
make movie only dvd's from the purchased ones, because my grandchildren are
really hard on them. I am up to copy #4 of the more popular ones.
I do not record movies to the hard drive, I just let the software handle the
copy. It works with just a dvd writer, or if you have both reader and
writer.
When you 'rip' a movie the hard drive, there is a change in format. When you
write it back to a standard dvd (for standard dvd players) there is another
change in format. It is quite likely that in these changes you have an
increase in size and a decrease in quality, but I have not tested that.
Stuart
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