Can a Panasonic DMR-E80H copy menus??

[the phantom]

....is there anyway to copy menus on to the HDD of the panasonic when recording a dvd-r from my dvd player...i guess the best way to say it is: can you make "exact clones" of a dvd-r that has had menus and chapters added to it, and have it be fully functional?????
thanks in advance!

[donpedro]

I would say NO, based on what I know now, but I never tried it.

[handyguy]

Most certainly you cannot. You can record what the main menu looks like but you cannot use it as a menu.

[thoots]

....is there anyway to copy menus on to the HDD of the panasonic when recording a dvd-r from my dvd player...i guess the best way to say it is: can you make "exact clones" of a dvd-r that has had menus and chapters added to it, and have it be fully functional?????
thanks in advance!

Well, you might be able to accomplish essentially what you want by using DVD-RAM. It all depends upon what exactly it is you want to do.

If this "DVD-R" you're trying to "copy menus" from is one you made, dubbing from the hard drive to DVD-R, then you could just do another dubbing session onto a DVD-RAM disc after you've made that DVD-R. That would give you on that DVD-RAM disc essentially exactly what you had on the hard drive. Then, if you wanted to make more DVD-R's just like the one you had, you could just dub the programs from the DVD-RAM disc back to the hard drive, and then you could make more DVD-R's with further dubbing sessions.

Generally, your "menus" will be made automatically by the DVD recorder -- it will compile the menus from the names of the programs you dub over to the DVD-R. The only "extra work" you'd have to do to finish up a new DVD-R would be to give the disc an overall title name, then finalize the thing.

I'm not sure if this is a solution to what you want to do or not, but this is essentially the way to "save programs so you can make more DVD-R's out of them later" on one of these hard drive machines. I hope it helps!

thoots