Question about DVD recorders/DVD dubbing

[goldenballs]

I've recently acquired a new Sony DVD recorder (RDRHX710 i think) and one thing i've been wanting to do is use it to help me compile some of my porn. I've got a lot of DVDs with say, only one scene of interest on each disc, so i want to put them all onto the one disc.

I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to burning discs, its all the different recording/dubbing speeds that get me.

As I understand it, if I use the highest quality mode to transfer scenes onto my hard drive and then onto a DVD-R, I'm not going to fit much stuff onto the disc, probably less than an hour.

What's the best combination of dubbing speeds to use? So far I've dubbed quite a bit onto the hard drive using the HQ (highest quality) setting, but i'm guessing that I'll have to use a lower quality setting to dub stuff onto discs. Ideally I'd like to put about 2 hours worth onto each disc.

The DVD-RWs that I've got say '1x.....4x' one them.

can anyone help?

[mart]

Unless you're very impatient and "can't wait" its always safest to use the slowest speed. I'll probably be called a Nervous Nelly for that advice.

Mart

[Porn crackers]

Mines a Sony RDR-HX510 80GB HDD (Analogue tuner).
And funny enough have been doing exactly that today.

My experiences are.

Use good quality DVD media, I use Philips DVD-R 1-8X and 1-16 from Woolworths in UK. Have already had a warranty replacement DVD unit and initially it was hard to decide if it was the other cheap media I was using or the unit playing up.

I would suggest using -R type because they can be more robust than -RW, and compatible on more players, (must finalise the disc).

Dubbing from DVD to the HDD (normally at SP quality) This normally is in real time ie 2hour film takes 2hours to copy to HDD.

Then edit the section you want to the playlist. Then dubb this back up to a DVD-R. I recommend selecting the SP setting, and not using the fast mode.
Again this will dub in real time.

This is because through experience I have seen errors turn up on the fast dubbed copy. What happens is that little sections of the scene before your edit although not visable when played on the HDD, appear on the Fast dubbed DVD.

So I use DVD-R and dub in SP mode and this gives me 2hours of recording on my DVD.

The quality is excellent, even when I copy VHS videos.

BTW good choice on the Sony, I exchanged a Liteon 160GB load of rubbish for my Sony and never looked back, (well except for the DVD drive hickup)

PC

[goldenballs]

thanks crackers!
just what I needed to know.