Regular Burn vs. Fast Burn Quality?

[rrtbusa]

Is there a difference in quality if you burn a DVD -R regular burn or fast burn,both on the same record mode??? If there is,Is it so little that the naked eye can't see it??

[steve2713]

What DVD recorder do you have, BTW?

By 'regular', do you mean in 'real time', as in the same time as the recorded content? If so, DON'T. You're re-encoding the video, BAD . If the content you recorded fits on the DVD at the recording quality you used originally, do NOT re-encode it, burn it 'high speed' onto the DVD.

[rrtbusa]

I have the Sony Hx-900 w/HDD,,Yes i mean real time, . You say do not use real time?? Fast burn is better??

[rrtbusa]

I have the Sony Hx-900 w/HDD,,Yes i mean real time, . You say do not use real time?? Fast burn is better??

[steve2713]

If you are changing the 'quality' setting of the content when you burn it to disc, then absolutely, you will be re-encoding the content. Even if you have something that only fills half the disc and you change the quality setting to fill the full disc, you are going to worsen the quality of the original recording.

There's ZERO reason to burn to the disc in real time, unless you HAVE to re-encode the content in order to get what you recorded to fit, in which case it'd be in real time.

[iluvJLO]

is the quality of re-encoding that bad? if you record something in XP to the hard drive and it turns out to be 1hr 20mins, and you do a real time FR to disc which will re-encode. will the quality suffer that greatly? or will it be similiar to an FR 1hr 20min recording from the tv broadcast to a dvd?