Panasonic E80H dubbing question

[Rad17]

Although I've had the deck a while, the manual doesn't really explain if I can do this or not:

I want to burn a 2 hour and 14 minute movie onto a DVD at the 2 hour speed (SP). I know that the HD can compensate while recording to the hard drive (squeezing a program into an allotted time -- the "Flexible Recording" mode), but does this work with burning to a DVD also?

If so, can someone explain the procedure to set this up? Thanks!!

[chas0039]

Absolutely, and very well. It adjusts the bitrate to fill the disc in the time allowed; it does not squeeze the movie into a shorted period of time. FYI, I have not tested it myself, but many others have reported the maximum time for the best rate is around 2 hours and 20 minutes.

[TeeeRex]

Not had mine long but ...

As long as you have selected 'DVD' and not 'HDD' mode then just set the recording mode to 'FR' - set the time to 2hrs 14mins - then off you go and fully fill the DVD-R.

However, something I have't tried yet is to do this on the HDD - If I select FR mode on the HDD - does the unit assume you eventually want it to fit onto a DVD-R as it doesn't ask you anything other then the total time. (ie pointless doing a FR with 80 Gbyte to play with...)

Once recorded with FR - then one assumes you can just high speed dub it onto your DVD-R and it will fit fine ...

Hmmmm - I'm curious now - I'm going to try this out ...

TeeeRex

[spiderman2k1]

if you are going to redub then record in XP mode. If you want the capture file to fit on DVD-R use FR and set recording to how long the movie is this way you can high speed dub.