Alternative to on disc editing?

[wetcamelfood]

I used to do on disc editing with ULead DMF 3 and though I knew it was risky, I liked it because I record music performances from bands that play on TV (Leno, Leterman, etc.) and collect all of their performances on discs (each disc per band) and within the disc in date broadcast order and once a +RW disc was full, I'd then copy it to a +R disc and start a new +RW disc for that band.

Well, I can't use ULead on my new Vista tower and I know on disc editing has been frowned upon so I guess I can't do that anymore (since most don't recommend it and companies also feel the same way as I bet it's not easy top find programs that will do that anymore) but I really need as similar a set up as I can get since I have so many of these discs there's no way I can just keep the contents of them on my external hard drive "in case" I need to reburn them and I just don't have the time to re-rip 2 hours of twenty 10 minute videos back to my computer so I can reset the chapter points (between songs on each show) & reauthor the discs all over again over and over just because so & so was on Letterman last night (that's where the on disc came in, because then I could just go in and squeeze it on the "pending" +RW disc and edit the already existing authoring and then the new vid wouldn't be clogging up my drive space) & friends of mine can send me older perfs which I need to put in the middle of an older disc so yes, in those cases I would have to reauthor from scratch I guess but the newer stuff...

I asked my friend this and they suggested saving the video projects on media cards but I wanted to bouce this off you in case anyone here had some ideas about what I could do that would cause the least amount of hassle to ensure the disc I burn will be the least amount of re-doing and keep in the order that I want.

Thanks in advance for the replies.

[guns1inger]

One alternative is to dual boot XP so you can run your Ulead applications, or run XP as a virtual system with something like Virtualbox or VMWare, and run the Ulead apps in the virtual machine. I would recommend you have at least 2 - 4 GB of ram to do the latter, but if you can get XP drivers, setting up Dual Boot is pretty straight forward, even with Vista installed first. There are plenty of sites with guide if you google.