Posted by Loren Amelang on 10/05/06 20:29

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:37:33 -0700, wannabe <not@applicable.org>
wrote:

>I am not a pro but I have an editing VCR with a flying erase head that
>I use to assemble videos.
>
>I was wondering if I can do the same kind of thing with an inexpensive
>DVD-RW deck or would I need something special.
>
>Basically, i just want to be able to pause the recording and backspace
>the necessary number of frames to get a clean transition between
>scenes, like I do with my VCR.

Depends on the particular model. When using DVD-RW, my Sony GX7 does
"A-B Edit", but there are some limits... You can't cut out less than
a second or two ("Point B is too close to point A"), and the minimum
duration seems to vary. And of course you can't edit MPEG2 at just any
frame boundary, only at master frames (well, without a computer to
re-render everything). Plus there always seems to be a very slight
pause when you play through a spot where you've done an edit - as if
the material wasn't really deleted, the player was just instructed to
skip past it.

Problem is, there is no way to learn such things from the manual or
from typical reviews, you'd have to try each unit in real life to find
out if it will do what you want to your satisfaction.

Loren

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