Posted by GMAN on 07/05/06 20:20

In article <Xns97F69AB93E64Eswartzsfuca@64.59.144.76>, Norman Swartz <swartz@sfu.ca> wrote:
>I have used a Pioneer dual-purpose machine - DVD Recorder and VCR - model
>DVR-RT501-S, to dub several short VHS films onto a DVD. The disk plays
>back just fine in the Pioneer machine, but I want to edit the single long
>sequence of films into separate, indexed sections, to remove commercials,
>etc. But when I put the DVD in the LG DVD drive in my computer to copy it
>onto the hard drive, Windows XP Pro, SP2, spins the disk for a long time
>and then finally reports it as being totally blank?!?! Obviously the DVD
>is not blank since it plays back perfectly in the machine in which it was
>created.
>
>Help! Please! How do I proceed? Do I need special software to read such a
>DVD? Obviously I am new to dubbing DVDs and am pretty clueless, so much so
>that I don't know where to turn other than to you folks in this group. I
>am depending on your helpfulness. Many thanks.
Before you can read the disk in a computer, you must go into the menu on your
DVD/VCR recorder and "Finalize" the disk. Then you can play this disk in most
any computer or standalone dvd player.

Obviously once you do this you can not modify or add or do anything to the
disk that is finalized, but you can copy it to the pc and edit it and reburn
using a computer DVD burner. This is why most of us use DVD rewriteables to
record the shows , then copy them to PC for editing using womble, or videoredo
, and then burn the edited video to a disk using a computer burner.

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