JVC DR-MH30s: HDD to DVD dubbing questions

[piannetta]

Hi there,

I have a couple of questions that the manual can't seem to answer and hopefully someone can assist me please:
1) I've saved a recording from an analog camcorder onto the HDD and am using "JUST" dubbing to DVD, which seems to record at normal speed (23 minute recording). I tried high speed dubbing, but it also said it would take 23 minutes. What's high speed about that?
2) The manual seems to indicate that when using high speed dubbing, the data is "moved" to the DVD. I need to make 20 copies - is there a way to retain the original HDD recording when using high speed dubbing?
3) When I play the recorded DVD in another DVD player, the main menu doesn't appear when you load the DVD. I can play when I press "play" and the menu appears if you press the "menu" button. Is there a way to "program" the DVD to auto play the menu when you load it? Other DVD's seem to when loaded into the other DVD player.
4) I am doing a "finalise" after each DVD is recorded. Do I have to do this for the DVD to be played in other players? If so, why is it so convoluted to finalise? Shouldn't this function be on the "dubbing" menu?

Sorry for the bombardment, I'm still earning and the manual is a bit all over the place.

Cheers,
Pete

[Robbins1940]

I had this problem too with the JVC it will only do high speed dub in VR mode not video mode which is silly really. Might as well have recorded direct to disc in the first place.

Also I have found that any recording made on DVD-RAM discs a few weeks ago now refused to be read by the machine.

Think next time I will buy a Panasonic(never had a problem with the Panny model).

David

[midnightsun]

as for 2), if you're using VR mode (not sure about video) and doing high speed HDD->dvd dubbing, it will record the files to disc but it will NOT erase them off the HDD.

I've done it thousands of times (I have a MH20 but that's the same, except for the smaller hard disk).

As for 1), I'm not sure, but the Just mode is used to fill the disc completely, but if the files have been recorded in XP mode and are small enough that they will not fill up the disc, then high speed and just are exactly the same operation.

[DVWannaB]

I had this problem too with the JVC it will only do high speed dub in VR mode not video mode which is silly really. Might as well have recorded direct to disc in the first place.

Also I have found that any recording made on DVD-RAM discs a few weeks ago now refused to be read by the machine.

Think next time I will buy a Panasonic(never had a problem with the Panny model).

David

This is inaccurate info. You have a defective unit. Just last night I burned 2 disks in HIGH SPEED dubbing in video mode -R and VR mode on -RW.

If you have a file that is over 4.35GB and try HIGH SPEED dub, it will not do it. It should give you a message like "not enough disk space" or something like that. You have to use JUST or MANUAL and the dub will be performed.

[Robbins1940]

I had this problem too with the JVC it will only do high speed dub in VR mode not video mode which is silly really. Might as well have recorded direct to disc in the first place.

Also I have found that any recording made on DVD-RAM discs a few weeks ago now refused to be read by the machine.

Think next time I will buy a Panasonic(never had a problem with the Panny model).

David

This is inaccurate info. You have a defective unit. Just last night I burned 2 disks in HIGH SPEED dubbing in video mode -R and VR mode on -RW.

If you have a file that is over 4.35GB and try HIGH SPEED dub, it will not do it. It should give you a message like "not enough disk space" or something like that. You have to use JUST or MANUAL and the dub will be performed.

It will on only do high speed dub to DVD-R if I have already dubed it to DVD-RW in VR mode and then back to the hard drive.

Had to reset the machine to get it to dub to the hard drive.

David