Editing programs recorded on a DVDR on your PC?

[Batchman]

I've been considering getting a capture board for capturing video tapes I made years ago of stage shows and the like, but this last weekend, on the advice of a friend, I instead went out and bought an ilo DVDR04. (My friend has raved about the quality, ease of use, and so on.)

I've not even used it, yet ... just hooked it up and upgraded the firmware. But I have a couple of issues with it.

If I record TV shows, I'll do it with the timer, not personally. And if I do so, I'd want a way to remove the commercials.

Also, I don't like their option for making chapters every x minutes.

What I want to know is ... have people yet started making editing programs where you can take these DVDR disks and transfer them to your computer, then do things like set up menus, proper chapter selection, edit out commercials and the like? Simply?

Use rewriteable disks, and it ought to be halfway easy to bring high quality video into the computer without having to worry as much about all the details of video capturing ... this sounds like a good way to go, to me.

If this is possible, I am betting there are guides for it on this site, but I have been poking around, and haven't been able to find them ... perhaps due to a lack of the proper terminology or something.

If this is doable, and there are guides, can somebody explain the specific section where I'd be able to find them? I would really appreciate it.

[Baldrick]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224833

[mats.hogberg]

IMO, if you're going to edit, cut, create menus and whatnot, you're much better off with a Hauppage PVR card, 250 or 350. In Sweden, we have a saying about "crossing the stream for water" - that's exactly what a DVD recorder is, if you're going to edit the material. Used as a hitech VCR, DVD recorders sure has its advantages, specially if HDD equipped, but leave it at that.

/Mats

[Batchman]

Baldrick, thanks for the link to your cunning plan ... it will be a very big help!

I still think it will probably be much easier to let the machine worry about the capturing, and just edit out the commercials! I'll give it a try, at least, and see what I think. (If I can get the machine to work ... it doesn't like the Maxell DVDs I bought!)

[Racer2x]

I sued to go the pc capture route, unitl I bought this Ilo DVDR04. My only regret is that I didn't spring for the DVDHDR04, which has an internal hard drive, that it records to, and from there, you can edit out commercials, within the unit, before you burn it to disc. Either way, you should still be able to just rip the dvd to your pc's hard drive, and edit it, there. I'd already be doing that, but my CPU is dying, and I can't do squat on my system until that is replaced ( Typing this on my wife's pc. )

[Batchman]

I sued to go the pc capture route, unitl I bought this Ilo DVDR04. My only regret ....

You SUED? Who'd you sue? This society is just too legalistic!

Just kidding!

Found a firmware upgrade or a new box of Memorex disks and it will work with them. And the recording is actually a fair amount better than the signal that shows through before recording, so I think it is possible I wil really enjoy this unit once I get used to it.

[Batchman]

All right ... it looks like VOB Edit ought to give me what I need as far as removing commercials, and perhaps rejoining files together as a single vob file, and then preparing it for burning. (And that one's free! How cool is that?)

Now this started out as asking for info on whether or not this could be done using these files, and so it kind of fit in this section.

But should I take further questions on the 'how to' nature to the authoring section? Is that where I could find the information on setting up chapter marks, and preparing multiple VOB files for a disk?