Posted by dumber on 10/06/06 13:28

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:29:39 -0700, Loren Amelang <loren@pacific.net>
wrote:

>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


Thanks for the info.

These limitations and problems you describe would make it unworkable
for me. I guess everyone here is using their computer now for this
type of thing.

-wannabe

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