[Newbie] How to burn multiple mini-movies?

[avguser]

I'm not sure what to search for an answer, nor which forum to post, so I'm in this forum asking my question.

I can capture and create a DVD and write it to +/-RW media. Typically it's in 20 minutes chunks.
I look on the DVD and there are two folders of "Stuff", which don't really mean much to me other than I can view and play my movie in my DVD player. I'm creating w/ Pinnacle8 software if that matters. So far so good.

If I continue creating 20-30 minute movies and write them to the hard drive, can I simply drag/drop the same two folders to the DVD and have a collection of movies using Roxio or similar? I think I want to or need to operate this way because my hard drive is only 40 GB w/ about 20 GB free. Authoring an entire 60 minute video and burning it to a DVD will consume almost all available space or more. So I want to do it in smaller pieces. Basically, I want to create a little, burn a little, create a little, burn a little...and so on in 20-30 minute chunks until I can pack an entire 4.7 GB DVD with my movies.

Make sense? Can I do it this way? I haven't tried/tested this yet - I thought I'd try opinion here first.

Thank you

[Hardcoreruss]

You could do this with a RW dvd and only finalise it after you have put on the last clip. However your method is a very long winded one. With the prices of hard drives nowadays I would recommend buying a large secondary "slave drive" for all of your editing.

[Gazorgan]

You can for pure storage. You can't for something a settop player can display. You will lose some space re-writing your FAT. Can you even access a non-finalized DVDR? Some drives won't read one. Also, do you know how to add to an unfinalized DVDR? It's not drag and drop, there's extra steps or you lose everything before the last burn.

[Hardcoreruss]

You can for pure storage. You can't for something a settop player can display. You will lose some space re-writing your FAT. Can you even access a non-finalized DVDR? Some drives won't read one. Also, do you know how to add to an unfinalized DVDR? It's not drag and drop, there's extra steps or you lose everything before the last burn.

As always Gazorgan you add muc more depth to what I say. I am pretty sure certain players can play a non-finalised DVD, I have done it on mine in the past.

[avguser]

You could do this with a RW dvd and only finalise it after you have put on the last clip. However your method is a very long winded one. With the prices of hard drives nowadays I would recommend buying a large secondary "slave drive" for all of your editing.

What do you mean "only finalize after the last clip"? Where would all the interim data be stored?

As for the HD, I thought about that too. I stalling for the moment becasue my video editting machine is actually my kids machine and I'm not ready to replace my system yet

[Hardcoreruss]

The interim data would be stored on the dvd.

Hard drives are so cheap nowadays, I feel you are making a lot of work for yourself when you can get a 160gb hard drive from newegg for only $93

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-011&depa=1

If I was in the US I would buy one like a shot.

[sacajaweeda]

Take the audio and video streams you create for your movies and just save them on a RW disc until you are ready to make your full DVD. Then just author them all into one disc.

[avguser]

Take the audio and video streams you create for your movies and just save them on a RW disc until you are ready to make your full DVD. Then just author them all into one disc.

Having just gotten in to this sort of stuff as a hobby, i'm not sure I know how to do that yet. That's what I'd like to do...I don't know how. Can you point me in the right direction?

Here's what I do know how to do right now
1. Capture the Raw Video/Audio
2. Edit it, Add titles/menus and simple stuff like that
3. "Transform" it to DVD, MPEG, VCD or similar. I cannot recall an option or setting called "Save A-V for Later".

However, perhaps that is what the Pinnacle "Projects" are called and what they are for. I'll have to check that out tonight when I get home.

Perhaps I can save my edited projects as "data files" and then concatenate them all together when I'm ready to burn them. Can this be done?

[makntraks]

Take the audio and video streams you create for your movies and just save them on a RW disc until you are ready to make your full DVD. Then just author them all into one disc.

Having just gotten in to this sort of stuff as a hobby, i'm not sure I know how to do that yet. That's what I'd like to do...I don't know how. Can you point me in the right direction?

Here's what I do know how to do right now
1. Capture the Raw Video/Audio
2. Edit it, Add titles/menus and simple stuff like that
3. "Transform" it to DVD, MPEG, VCD or similar. I cannot recall an option or setting called "Save A-V for Later".

However, perhaps that is what the Pinnacle "Projects" are called and what they are for. I'll have to check that out tonight when I get home.

Perhaps I can save my edited projects as "data files" and then concatenate them all together when I'm ready to burn them. Can this be done?

Check out the guides on the left or do a search... your answers are here if you'll just take time to look for them... After that if you still have any SERIOUS questions just ask..

makntraks

[sacajaweeda]

I'm not a Pinnacle user so I'm not familiar with it. You should save the outputted video and audio streams.....skip the authoring phase until you are ready to compile your entire disc. Elementary streams will have extensions like MPV or M2V for the video and MP2, MPA or AC3 for audio, or if it's outputting a single multiplexed (program) stream....just save the MPG file. Just back them up on a RW disc as a regular data disc until you're ready to put all your clips together on a DVD.

[avguser]

Screw it. I'm opting for the easy life and just placed an oorder for an external 160GB drive. I'll fudge w/ this later as an experiment to 'prove it can be done'.

Thank you all

[Gazorgan]

And F*ck you very much Hardcore.

Did you even read or just flame on?

Your assuming he's not Authoring, which he alludes to in his posts.

I can capture and create a DVD and write it to +/-RW media. Typically it's in 20 minutes chunks.

So how is he going to Re-Author on the RW? He's not. He can't add to a DVD he's already created, when he is out of space in the first place!

It's a moot point, he bought another drive.

[Hardcoreruss]

He's using the dvd for backup purposes as he cannot store it on his hard drive, he creates the first chunk, writes to the dvd, erases, so on and so forth until the dvd is full, when it is he finalises.

When on earth did I flame ?