Philips DVDR75 record options

[altern8]

Just a quick question -
Sorry if it's been covered b4

Will this machine record to a format that can easily be manipulated by a PC? eg: record sports events etc then edit the ads out etc afterwards & transfer them to DVD-R. Or does it use a strange format specific to the machine?

Thanks

[hech54]

I personally STILL use my S-VHS machine to record stuff and "walk away" and edit the commercials out before they ever hit my Philips 985. MUCH easier though not very time saving RIGHT NOW. PC editing of Philips created discs is however (in MY opinion) harder and more time consuming in the long run than the way I'm doing it RIGHT NOW actually. I just finished another RW of BBC's Top Gear....5 episodes in two hour mode from shows I have gathered up over the past....well....5 weeks. JUST finished one not 10 minutes ago. Now I will use Ulead DVD Movie Factory's "Edit Disc" function to put better looking menus to the disc....create an image of the disc apon completion...and send it off to my father in the U.S.

Just a thought....

[altern8]

I guess I was expecting far too much!
I hoped to record in decent quality and then just stick it onto a dvd-r, without re-encoding etc, oh well.

[Scobo]

I have a DVDR75 and simply chuck the DVD+RW in my PC's DVD-ROM drive and copy the recordings to my hard drive with DVD-Decrypter in file mode then edit with MPEG VCR.
The saved files can then be burned to DVD+/-R.
Piece of P**s !

[altern8]

Now thats what I was after, I don't mind doing that. My vcr has gone 'pop' anyway and wanted to replace it with DVDR if it was worth while.

Thanks

[hech54]

I guess I was expecting far too much!
I hoped to record in decent quality and then just stick it onto a dvd-r, without re-encoding etc, oh well.

There is no re-encoding involved in doing what I do. If you don't care for my method just use an RW disc and use DVDDecrypter like Scobo said....dump them to your computer and do whatever you want with the files. Then erase the disc and do it all over.
6 of 1....half dozen of the other.
But if you are thinking of using DVDShrink to edit with it's start and end markers....forget it....DVDShrink HATES Philips created discs.
Getting the items FROM the Philips disc to the computer is not a problem....editing them is the problem.
Womble works well with the files from a Philips disc...from what I hear...never used it.

Try this link:
http://www.dvdguideuk.dsl.pipex.com/dvdguide/editing1/editing1.htm

[Scobo]

MPEG VCR works extremely well with the Philips' recordings.
It's the best MPEG editor I've used by far and very quick.
I also use Ulead Movie Factory to author and burn and this works well too although it complains about the audio format (AC3).
This doesn't seem to matter though as it will still author and burn.
Just ignore the warning.

[altern8]

Thanks for the replies and the link - gunna bookmark that for later reference.

The bit I wanted to get around really was having to capture everything to the pc once I'd recorded it, which you've answered. I'm not that organised so I end up with stuff on various tapes that need doing which end up lost or recorded over due to the transfer times. At least going straight into my PC's DVD from the recorder will sort that.

Dave

[donpedro]

Another option is to go with recorder that has HD in it. Record to HD, edit out whatever you wish and burn final product to R medium

[proton]

I'm using the DVDR70 from Philips, after recording I copy the files to
my PC, then load them into TMPGENC DVD author and I can do whatever I want , create menu's, add chapters, edit out commercials etc etc.

Works perfectly and I have converted lots of VHS tapes already this way!

PS When I use Nashua DVD+RW's I get while copying to my PC
after about 1 hour 40 mins (or 3Gb data copied) a "cycle redundancy error".
So I can't use those discs for recordings longer than about 90 mins.
Anyone an idea what this means?