Hi I have a question. After I've burned my video to disk, how is the best way to copy them? Is it better to have two dvd burners in my computer, or better and quicker to get a dvd to dvd recorder? (if they make one)
Seeing as how you've already burned it, it won't have any copy protecion, so this: http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink31-main.htm or CloneDVD by Slysoft if you want payware.
First of all, you don't mention how many copies you want. Are you trying to mke hundreds, thousands of them to justify buying a DVD replicator?
Well let me be a little clearer here. I own a video editing studio, and at times I will need copies, might be 2 or 3, or even 100 copies. If I burn the video file onto a DVD on my system, it takes like an hour to encode and then burn. Very time consuming and ties up the system. So I found this Copy Master III that can copy a video in 3 minutes, or a full 4.7gig cd or dvd in 7 minutes. But with this my question is, I am shooting video in HD at 1920 resolution, it's like 5MB per second. Will this machine keep it clean and lag-free, or do you think it might lag the disc in copying? http://www.octave.com/1-Sony-Drive-DVD-Duplicator-~-1173431640.html
No, I wouldn't get a 2nd writer and I wouldn't use the method I desribe for 100 DVD's, 2 or 3, fine. I'm not familiar with duplicator's so don't know but don't imagine they could sell it if it didn't maintain quality and Sony has a good name. I think you're confusing encoding with transcoding, shouldn't take more than about 25 minute's to copy a DVD; 7 minute's, I don't know. If copying home movie's or material that isn't copyrighted is something you regularly do, go for the replicator but I'd want to talk to someone that had used it or know I could return it. Using a seperate device is a good idea anyway, I don't like to use the same system while copying anyway. Keep it defragged too.
Hopefully someone on here has used one before. But I will save up and get the machine and make sure it has a return policy of like 30 days. Thank you
If you will duplicate hundreds regularly, I'd buy a duplicator, replicator, whatever they're named. However, for 2,3 copies, I wouldn't bother. After editing, transcoding the new video might take you some time(an hour as you say), but after the new edited DVD is on your HDD, making a new copy is a matter of 3-5 minutes using a regular DVD burner, depending how fast you burn.
Yeah I figure I will not worry about multiple copies right now to start out, and once bigger jobs come in, then buy one. But the software I had, when it did the transcoding, it would have to transcode for every single copy.
Well, not sure how you're doing it, but I bet is user's input. Whatever software you use, you should be able to select your HDD as the target for your newly edited DVD.Not the DVD burner. Once the new DVD is compiled on your HDD, check and make sure everything is okay(sound/video sync...), then from there you just burn it to DVD as many times as you want, every burn should take just a few minutes.
