Burning Projects To RW Discs - A Question

Whalebat wrote on 4/1/2012, 6:32 PM

I burn most of my family projects to RW discs to play in my DVD player.

Often there can be 20 minutes space left on the discs that I would like to use at a later date.

Is it possible to edit the DVD's using a PC DVD rewriter to use this remaining space (Editing, as can be done on DVD recorders) with smaller projects without the need to erase the existing project?

 

 

 

 

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johnebaker wrote on 4/2/2012, 3:08 AM

Hi Whalebat

Do you keep backups of these projects?

If so then at a later date why not reload the project, add the new movies edit them and then burn them back to the DVD-RW, with MEP taking care of the menus.

Alternatively copy the the DVD VOBs to your computer, load into MEP add the new movie(s) edit them and then burn them back to the DVD-RW, with MEP taking care of the menus.

I only use RW for testing - I then burn the final version to DVD as they are a lot cheaper.

John

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Whalebat wrote on 4/2/2012, 1:34 PM

Hi John

Thanks for the reply.

I too use printable +R / - R discs because they are cheaper.

What you advise is what I currently do.

There are times I would edit (RW) and use the 20minutes rather than wipe (RW) and burn from backups.

I was just wondering if any PC technology out there had the same capability as that of a DVD Recorder where existing recorded material on an RW disc need not be erased and additional video content added.