Software to Use multiple burners at once

[Havalilsi]

I have an internal DVD burner in my shettle and I also have a Comp USA burner. I was wondering if I could run them both at the same time to cut my duplication time in half or so. Right ow I have to wait 20+ minutes to do each video that I burn. I usually burn from my image in Encore or just copy an already produced DVD.

[waheed]

Nero is capable to multiple burns.

[BJ_M]

prassi also is good for this

[Havalilsi]

I have Nero Express but I'm not quite sure how to chose two burners burning at once.

What is prassi?

[Sifaga]

http://www.prassi.com/

burning software

[Cornucopia]

Also Discjuggler.

However, you probably won't get optimal burn speeds unless ALL your burner models are the same.

Scott

[kenmo]

http://www.prassi.com/

burning software

Yes... I'm curious how this is done in Nero as well....

[dun4cheap]

When you hit the burn button in nero and the option menu comes up, check the box that sais multiple burners. Continue the process. The next menu will show a list of available burners. Select the burners you want to burn with and thats it. I have used nero with upto 4 burners simultaneously. Now I just use a 1 to 7 acard duplicator.

[Noahtuck]

Gear Pro Mastering Edition, although a bit pricey.

can burn different titles, at different speeds, to different types of media, in different drive models, all in parallel, and with complete verification of every copy.

http://www.gearsoftware.com/products/gearpromastering.cfm

And i doubt you will cut your time in half, maybe a little but not much.

[dun4cheap]

Hmm, I would be skeptical about burning different data to each of the drives simultaneously, but it thats what you want you can do this with nero.

[Cornucopia]

Had a standalone duplicator tower (8drive, 16xCDRW) whose firmware bit the dust.

Rewired the SCSI cabling out of the box and into an older PC w/dual SCSI cards (Adaptec 2940's, IIRC). Added a multi-burner-capable copy of Nero. Works great! Now, just a different "interface" than originally.

Scott

[Krispy Kritter]

Alcohol 120% also works for this. You also need to keep in mind you most likely WON'T get max burn speed (especially with DVD burns) as your pc is trying to move twice as much data and usually can't keep the buffer full. In my experiements trying this with CDR burns, my burns took almost twice as long, so it didn't realy save me any time. Haven't tried this yet with DVD burns.

[dun4cheap]

In my case, I had purchased a 4 bay external firewire case and put the burners in to the case. So firewire requires little processor speed, so I was able to sustain a good rate without taxing my computer.

Alcohol120 works ok, I have used this and it has no limit to the amount of burners if your system can handle it.

But if your really serious about multi burns that are decent quality I would strongly consider purchasing a duplicator card, Acard 2033s is what I have, a case and then start adding burners as you can afford them.

But I have had to burn 800 dvds in a sitting before, this is definately the way to go. The duplicator card is about $180. The one I have will control 7 burners, 1 hard drive and one source dvd or cd rom. I have usb connectivity to the hard drive so I place images on the hard drive and usually burn to 7 dvds simultaneously automatically.

I purchased my case and card from here http://www.amamax.com/index.html

The drives I already had 4 and purchased 3 more pioneers from my local computer store. The pioneer 110's were like $44 each.