Just in case anyone else is tempted to try it, this is what happened
yesterday when I tried copying video to DVD.
I have one program which says it will allow straight through copying, but I
don't have the means of linking the video to the computer for that one. I'd
already bought a video editing program (Pinnacel Studio 9) with connection
(Dazzle) a while ago, so I used that. The empty 40 Gb partition on my hard
drive would allow three and a half hours of tape to be recorded, but that
wouldn't then have anything left to do the assembling and recording - it
still assembles it even if you record it as one scene.
I recorded one hour twenty minutes, which occupied almost 20 GB. There then
wasn't enough room to assemble the whole lot, so I tried with 1 hours-worth
of it. It did that OK, but then would only write a Video CD. In order to
write a DVD, I'd have had to buy an unlock key for part of the programme -
there was nothing about that one the box, and I wasn't told that when I
asked advice when buying it, so I wasn't exactly pleased. The Video CD
played OK on my DVD player. There was just a little loss of quality, but not
anything I couldn't live with.
The whole process took from 9.30 am until 2.30 pm. So my verdict is - don't
bother trying it this way.
Apparently a scart socket with a filter will overcome the copy protect
signal on a commercial tape when copying from VCR to DVD recorder. So I'll
be buying a DVD recorder, but will take my time deciding which one - I don't
need to make backups of my tapes right this instant.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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