08-21-2006, 11:08 AM
Thanks fellas. A lot of the info I knew already but the extras did explain it more.
On my Panasonic I usually record on the LP setting to give 4 hours on a disc or the equivalent on the HD. This is good enough quality for my wife and myself for everyday time shifting of shows we won't be keeping after watching. Things we might want to keep tend to be recorded at the '2 hr per disc' setting onto the HD and then after editing (top and tailing + ads) they get dubbed to a DVD-R using the FR setting which fits it exactly to the size of the disc at the best quality allowable.
In the last couple of weeks I've been working my way through old videotapes to see about transferring items to DVD. Being video and a few years old the quality is easily captured on the '4 hr per disc' setting with no visible loss although I still do the 2 hour setting at times. This is done to the HD where it is edited and then dubbed to a DVD-R again usually doing the FR method. This dubs at real time speed but this morning I wondered about doing the High Speed Dub which can only be done like for like so a recording on the HD at SP gets transferred at SP. This leaves space on the DVD-R which can be added to up until the time it either runs out or you finalise the disc so it can be played on other machines. That's what I did this morning with 4 shows recorded at the '4 hr per disc ' setting totalling 2hr 37min so I had 1hr 23min left.
That's about 65% capacity. 65% of one hour is 39 minutes which if burnt in 7-8 minutes works out at less than 6x. OK, I got it now. Thank you.
On my Panasonic I usually record on the LP setting to give 4 hours on a disc or the equivalent on the HD. This is good enough quality for my wife and myself for everyday time shifting of shows we won't be keeping after watching. Things we might want to keep tend to be recorded at the '2 hr per disc' setting onto the HD and then after editing (top and tailing + ads) they get dubbed to a DVD-R using the FR setting which fits it exactly to the size of the disc at the best quality allowable.
In the last couple of weeks I've been working my way through old videotapes to see about transferring items to DVD. Being video and a few years old the quality is easily captured on the '4 hr per disc' setting with no visible loss although I still do the 2 hour setting at times. This is done to the HD where it is edited and then dubbed to a DVD-R again usually doing the FR method. This dubs at real time speed but this morning I wondered about doing the High Speed Dub which can only be done like for like so a recording on the HD at SP gets transferred at SP. This leaves space on the DVD-R which can be added to up until the time it either runs out or you finalise the disc so it can be played on other machines. That's what I did this morning with 4 shows recorded at the '4 hr per disc ' setting totalling 2hr 37min so I had 1hr 23min left.
That's about 65% capacity. 65% of one hour is 39 minutes which if burnt in 7-8 minutes works out at less than 6x. OK, I got it now. Thank you.