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Posted by horeb on 12/01/06 00:12
Yes, I get your point.
The length of the recording on the DVD is the length of the original
version without the hidden parts, i.e. the expected length withouth
changes to the quality. I conclude that the quality did not change.
But I will check to make sure.
Thanks for the input.
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> My point was that perhaps the recorder is by default increasing the
> quality when you write an edited video; I guess from your reply that
> you either don't think so or just plain don't know. To emphasize what I
> meant: my suggestion amounts to restoring the quality to what it had
> been before this putative undesired change.
>
> As I said, I don't know whether the guess was good or bad.
>
> On 11/28/2006, horeb posted this:
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks for the input. Your proposal works, but is not the solution
> > that I am asking for.
> >
> > To explain more: Having a movie of more than 2 hours ... reducing the
> > quality of the recording (lower bit rate) makes the move fit to a
> > SL-DVD. This works.
> >
> > BUT: I am asking for a solution, where I don't change the recording
> > quality and ONLY take out (by hiding) some pieces in the movie (the
> > advertisement). If then the length is less then 2 hours, i.e. hidden
> > parts not counted but still included in the original version, then it
> > should fit to the SL-DVD.
> >
> > Any further comments.
> >
> > Cu.
> >
> > Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> >> On 11/28/2006, horeb posted this:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Here's a guess - I don't know the machine. Can you set the recording
> >> quality (often expressed as recording time or bit rate)? Perhaps as a
> >> (badly designed) result of editing it, the default quality is changed.
> >> With luck, somewhere in the menus you can change it.
> >>
> >> Sorry if this doesn't help: it's all I can think of.
> >>
> >> --
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>
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