dvdr re-authoring

[PetPie]

Hello,

First time caller, long time listener...

My question is, once you have authored a dvdr, is it possible to rip it, and (re)edit it?... sort of like re-capturing?...

A little background... I'm in Japan, making a few home videos on a dv cam... I don't have one, so I plan to capture all my footage here (wiht his camera), burn it to a DVDr(w), and then edit it at home...

do I burn this captured data as data?... as a movie (for standalone play)... can I do either and still edit it later?...

I assume I should burn as data (atandalone unreadable), and transfer it across the pacific this way?...

thanks for any and all of your help...

[wizzy]

do you or do you not have a DV CAM?
I dident get that one...
anyway, you can buy a DV tapes JAPAN is very chip place to buy them i know cuz im there every 3 month, now why to burn a raw data and than transfer and than edit etc. a lot of work...
you can use your CAM to transfer the data to your pc via firewire card, if you dont have a CAM at home just buy a DV tape that can transfer data to PC via USB/Firewire i think its more handly than just burning and transfering the raw dtat....
I hope that helped you...

[FT Shark]

If you don't have a dv cam I would suggest encoding the AVI to your format of choice and just burn it as a data DVD. When you get home just copy the file over to your hard drive. Edit it with you favorite program and then author it as a standard video dvd.

[bugster]

I agree with FT Shark, keep it as AVI format as long as possible. If you can keep it as DV Avi and store it in that form of DVDr disks, thats probably the best. If thats too many disks or you don't want to split longer scenes across two disks, encode to a high bitrate divx at full DV resolution first.