Copying DVD-Rs

[franco]

I am hoping to transfer some sports footage to DVD-R then duplicate to more DVD-R discs. I have read about DVD writers with 8x write speed, but I am wondering what influence the read speed of the CD Rom drive will have on the burning process?

I'm lost in all the info. Has anyone done this and are there any potential complications?

[SLICK RICK]

I am wondering what influence the read speed of the CD Rom drive will have on the burning process?

Where does the CD Rom fit into this picture?

SLICK RICK

[snafu099]

During the process of creating your first dvd also create iso (image) file on hdd, the just burn the image for additional copies. speed of burner with appropriate media will give proportional time saving

It's the dvd burn speed that matters not what cd will do

[franco]

OK. I'm really talking about burning a DVD-r disc that I no longer have on my HD. In that case don't you put the DVD-R you wish to copy into the CD-Rom drive and then write to the DVD Writer?? Kind of like copying a CD.

I need the basics here, but this is when I don't have the material on my hard drive. Duplicating from the DVD-R disc.

[SLICK RICK]

In that case don't you put the DVD-R you wish to copy into the CD-Rom drive and then write to the DVD Writer?? Kind of like copying a CD.

A CD-Rom can not read a DVD-R, or any DVD for that matter.

SLICK RICK

[Hardcoreruss]

What you could do is rip the dvd-r with dvd decrypter in iso mode. remove the original, put in a blank and then burn in iso write mode.

I would invest in another dvd rom to do your ripping though.

[ronnylov]

You can read your DVD-R to the hard disc using your DVD burner and then you put a blank DVD-R into your burner and burn from the hard disc. You may also use a DVD-ROM reader to read your DVD-R. It is safer to copy to the hard drive first rather than copy directly from a DVD-ROM unit on the fly. Your original DVD-R may have reading problems so you may get problems when copying on the fly.