Looking for some advice guys. I am recording from TV using a JVC dvd- recorder. I want to get rid of adverts from programs I'm keeping, but the edit facility only works with RW discs that won't play on other machines (after finalising). I was wondering if I could capture the material on the dvd- disc that I used onto my PC hardrive then edit out the bits I don't want, then burn a new dvd- using the PC? If possible what software (freeware preferrably) would I use?.............I couldn't find a guide for this on your site...........maybe I'm looking in the wrong place!
If you have a recording suite with a disc copy function, then you need buy nothing. You said you could edit with an RW. Since RW is reusable, you can edit the RW and then copy to a disc you want to keep. Reformat the RW and do it again. DVDRemake is a good editing program. However, it is retail. There was a discount on it at http://www.dvdshrink.info , I'm not sure if it's still there or not. You can check with Dimadsoft, which is the home website. Doom9 has some utilities listed by category; if you can't find what you want here at AD, you may want to try there. http://www.doom9.org
cheers brobear, I'm not thinking straight! Yeah your right..........I could edit the RW on the dvd recorder then backup on to the PC harddrive, then burm a dvd- Is the DVD shrink the easiest programme to let me copy the RW disc?
Depends, I'll include some beginner info that has some recording info in it. It gives an idea of what goes on in recording. Shrink is a decrypter and encoder. You only need it if you have encrypted media and/or the files need trancoding (shrink/compressed to fit a target disk). If what you want to record is less than 4.37GB and unencrypted, it will go from the RW to the +/-R disc using a disc copy function. Most recording suites, such as Nero, have the program. Here's that beginner info, hope something in it can be of use. Info for beginners: (I'll mention a few popular programs, but there are others of these types.) Backing up factory DVD movies has 3 basic steps and a few things to remember. The steps are 1)Decrypt/deCSS; 2)Encode/Transcode (Fit to the target disc, shrink when necessary); and 3)Burn. You can have one program that does it all, some programs do a couple of the steps and some only do one step or one step at a time. Decrypting can be done with driver type decrypters like AnyDVD or with apps such as DVD Decrypter or DVD Shrink. DVD Decrypter is used to decrypt and rip files to the (HD) hard drive. If DVD Decrypter is going to be used as a burner, 2 important things have to be remembered. 1)Use the ISO read mode to decrypt and 2)the file size has to be below 4.37 (GB) gigabytes. If the file is above 4.37GB, DVD Decrypter cannot burn the ISO file to a 4.7GB disc. [Note: 4.7 is a retail designation for a disc; the actual size of a 4.7 disc that a computer reads is 4.37GB.] File size is important to know. DVD Shrink can be used to decrypt and rip to the HD. Normally though, Shrink is used to decrypt a disc, using a temporary file, and transcoding the file in preparation to be burned. Nero isn't part of Shrink, but is the default app that Shrink uses to burn automatically. Shrink can also use DVD Decrypter in ISO burn mode and CopytoDVD can also be used. I suggest Nero, as DVD Shrink is already set to use it. There are a number of transcoding programs, browsing the forums can get a lot of info on those. It's already been mentioned what they do. Just remember, simply speaking, this step is to prep the file for burning. There are a number of apps on the market now. Due to laws, most of the popular recording programs now are trancoding and burning programs. These recording programs have to have a decrypter. With a driver type decrypter the program runs as though it was one of the older ripper programs that did everything. With the manual type decrypters the files are ripped to the HD and the file then has to be opened by the recording program. Burner or recording programs are either incorporated into programs or are separate in recording suites. I mentioned Nero as it is a favorite on many forums and a favorite of mine. There are others.
