what is dvd authoring?

i bought 2 dvd burners cause someone told me it was better for dvd authoring[might not be spelling it right]what is this?
i got a deal on two burners so i bought them

 

wow!is that crazy.alot of info there.dont understand why this guy told me that either.well anyway i got 2 sony dru810a for $60 a piece but i had to buy to cause of the rebate.i thought that was a good deal so i bought 2.is it better to have a faster cdrom to run games?or it really doesnt matter?plus the dvd burners came with alot of different nero software.is that the best for making dvd?you know what i mean without spelling out what dvds i mean,right?thanks man probably take me a week to understand the other post you sent me too[lol]

 

You probably got the nero6 Oem and it is very good for backing up original dvds.

I can help you if you want to backup original dvds. Can't help you much on anything else.

Let us know exactly what you are trying to backup on blank dvds.

Dvd burning is a whole new ball game.A lot more things can go wrong.It's very extreme when you try to squeeze 8 gigs of data onto 4.38 gigs of a blank dvd disc. You came to the right place,lots of guides/tips/and info here at your disposal.

BTW: You sony dru 810's are rebadged lite-ons. Very good burners/dual format/and dual layer burning. Also have the bitsetting ability to booktype. Take note of the booktyping feature if you run into any stand alone dvd player compatability issues later.

 

I'm going to have to say that you kind of got ripped buying the 2 Sonys'. It probably would have been better you bought the lit-ons. I guess the extra money was for the Nero things, but I bought a Lit-on 1693S for 45 bucks with the Nero suite. Could you tell me why you bought 2 burners just for authoring? Is authoring somehting you plan to do often? and why?

 

just saw it.just something more it did[lol]and i like the white and plastic fronts,look nice.yea,i got nero burning rom se,nero express,nero vision express,nero backitup,nero cover design,nero wave editor,nero showtime,nero mediahome,nero recode,nero photosnap,nero photosnap viewer,and nero media player.i figured all this stuff had to be worth something.i had to buy to of them otherwise the price was 119.00.i got 2 for the price of one,free shipping and no tax and i have another copy of that dvd software that im going to sell[someone said i could get a 100 bucks for all that software,if i can then i spent 20 bucks[lol] thought that was a good deal.they came factory sealed too,i thought it was a scam but it wasnt,otherwise i would have bought one.i know how to burn cdroms,that easy,but this dvd s--t seems real hard to do huh?i know this is a great site though.i just built my first pc and without afterdawn that wouldnt have been possible,for real,thanks for answering

 

It is easier to burn movies with a dvd rom/burner but in your case 2 burners so that you donthave to change the discs.Your pc can determine the source and destination.


So now you have 2 burners, you may consider adding a dvd rom as well now.Some programs like alcohol support 2 burners as well as a rom drive for burning purposes

 

Can you sell that stuff? I lent my friend the Nero CD that came with the Litey and she said it wouldn't work. Are the two burners for two different computers? It's a real waste if both are in one comp... well I suppose not. YOu shouldn't burn protected movies on the fly so you really only need one, back it up to your HD then switch disc to burn. But if you have it already saved in your HD then you can burn two movies at a time, notice I said BURN 2 movies at once. Not BACK UP, backin up movies takes 100% cpu usage so you shouldn't do anything while it's ripping, not net surfing, not even solitair. Burning only takes a dozen or something like that.

 

rugripper ,
Don't hold your breath on getting $100.00 as the software can be had for alot less than that. The big box stores were selling the Nero Ultra for $69.95 ( less now) and now w/ Nero 7 out that makes Nero 6 go down even more in price . But there is a silver lining. Register 1 of them and see if it will let you upgrade to Nero 7 free. If it does then get the upgrade and sell the other copy to a friend for less than retail. Good Luck

 

thats what i figured about 50 bucks,but thats cool.so you can put one movie in one drive and burn to the other one,like a cdrom.thats what i thought you could do.but that other idea is pretty kool,burn two movies at a time.will a 3700+ san diego have enough processing power to do that?i knew i should have gotten dual core,damn.thanks for all the help.


this is what i want to do:im a real newbe at this.never did this ever.

lets say i have a movie:the ring[i own it]
and i want to copy it cause my wonderful kids played frisbe with it
how would i do this?
i thought,you take the dvd in one drive and blank in the other and burn it

im wrong huh?well one thing going for me,these sony drives will burn almost any code there is.r+ r- and so on.there must be like 20 different letters.please help.let me know how much aggravation im in for...he...he...he thanks for your help peace

 

You CANNOT just put on disc in a drive and have it burn in teh other. That is called burning on teh fly, you will get coasters everytime I can assure you, you have to back it up to your HD, which will take about an hour, give or take a few, if it's a DVD9 and is encoded (all store bought DVDs are both). Burning on the fly is a risky thing to do even when it's not encoded, and then you usually have to burn at like under 2x. Also use Taiyo Yuden or Verbatim when you do burn on the fly (remember what I said). Fuji and Sony are alright but they have to be made in Japan.

YOu can back it up to your HD THEN burn 2 at a time, that is fine, you don't need a bunch of memory for that. Burning only takes aobut 10%. I'm saying don't back up 2 movies at a time.

If your DVD player is old it will not be able to play + nor -, neither will your PS2 or Xbox. So ppl booktype/bitset which will "change" you disc to a DVD ROM, which is universal so all players can read it.

 

@ GlueEater:

where the hell did i say that in my post.Why dont you read a bit before you jump the gun and put your foot in your mouth.


Say for example you have clonedvd.You put your original in the dvd rom and your blank disc in your burner.After the intial read and encoding and sorting of dvd files the program acknowledges that you have 2 drives and will burn to disc.Yes it does use a temp folder on your hard drive.But the way your putting it is that you know everything.

 

no you got it wrong dude.i have no idea.i had to drives in my last pc.i would take a cdrom[like lets say starcraft]put that in the top and the put a blank in the bottom then ues nero and burn one to the other

this dvd burner seems like a pain.till you told me about clonedvd,that one seems easy.now the only way i can do what i am saying is with a cdrom i want to back up on a dvd.will i be able to do that on the fly?or is that way dead and buried?so is this nero any good?and i bought these verbatium +r dL are these the right kind for movies?or do i need another kind?wasnt sure what to buy,want to buy something to try for the first time

 

If burning on the fly is using the programs to do all the steps without you having to get up and take a disk out and put one in (shrink w/ dvd43 or decryptor w/ Shrink or AnyDvd w/ Shrink (or) Clonedvd2 or whatever combo - then I do that all the time.

I really dont have any issues (unless I get a bad reel of blanks) I even used to keep burn speed at 8x but after reading so many no-no's on it - I went back down to 4x.

But if this is what burning on the fly is - I don't really tend to have any problems.

Whenevr I have try to burn a disk to disk though - then I do seem to have issues.
Reg DVD Rom used w/ DVDwriter vs. DVD Writer used w/ DVDWriter ... You all breifly mentioned that - Let me ask this question.

It seems (if I understood what I read - that you will have better results using a rom w/ the writer instead of two writers) If a person uses two writers (of course one for reading the original) <-- Can this cause a buffering problem? Will using a ROM w/ a writer cause a buffering problem to go away? (Buffering problem - buffer jumps back and forth for some strange reason - causing it to take longer to copy disk to disk - and I am not even talking about just movies - any copies that I make disk to disk seems to cause this problem)

 

hey thanks zhelpz,kool name buy the way.zee helps funny.so i can get this program clonedvd and burn on the fly,awesome.also im the other way around.i bought two dvd burners cause i got a deal.alot of people say i didnt but thats life[lol]anyway,i can use the writer to read?and the 2nd writer to write?or thats not good cause of the way it buffers the data?im kind of confussed.is this going to work or should i buy another plain dvd to read with?i thought this was going to be easier than this[lol]thanks again z

 

rugripper,
2 DVD burners are fine. Most of us use a DVD-Rom because we want the burner to last longer and most DVD burners are locked on how fast they can read a DVD. Some of the firmware sites have a way to unlock the burners by using a hack but I have never tried it. You should be OK w/ the burners

 

i wanted to tell you. these sonydru810a are not only dvd burners they are also cd writers.i bought them so i would have the best of both worlds.i know for a fact you can burn on the fly as everyone is calling it with a cdrom.you just need the right software to encode it or break the code[lol]right?.so having 2 drives aint that bad but i hope it works with the dvd burner part

 

thanks mike.so clonedvd is as easy as clonecd.kool didnt know they made one for dvds

 

rugripper,
I do not use CloneDVD so I do not know if it is easy. Do a search at the top to see what others say about it. Good Luck

 

i was just playing around,opened nero express and did a simulation burn on a game called fear[dvd copy]everything went fine in the copy dept.,but if i did it for real and just threw a disc in the other drive and fear in the other and hit burn,it wouldnt work?thats what i dont get.so what everybody is telling me is that dvd burning software is still not developed yet,huh?