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Can you copy dvd's made with a dvd recorder?

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I have one of the cheap countertop models from Sony and tried to copy a recorded (and finalized) disc in Sonic Record Now. It froze my computer that I use for video editing, which has plenty of CPU and memory.
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Just a day before, I was able to copy a computer burned - dvd and burn it to another + disc. I really want a better dvd recorder so I can record all my video camera tapes to dvd in high quality. The sony device records a fairly fuzzy picture compared to the original tape. Not only would it be a good backup to tape but I want to make direct disc copies. I hate having to play a tape through 10 times to make 10 copies. I know recorders with a built in hard drive could copy direct like I want but would I need one? Shouldn't my computer also work?

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Yes you can copy dvd-recorder recorded disc using your pc. I always capture old tapes directly to pc so I don't need a recorder but my dad also has a sony dvd-recorder and I copied some of his discs. I just copied the content to my hdd and burned it with nero or imgburn. But depending on the record mode of the dvd-recorder the files on the disc can be different. In standard mode you get a normal VIDEO_TS folder but in some different modes the recorder creates a different folder with different files.

Btw, I think if you capture your tapes with your PDI card and encode them yourself the results will be much better than a dvd-recorder can produce.
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I know the PDI computer capture will look much better. I'm just looking for a quick way to make a rather good backup of all my tapes in a straight transfer. I usually use my computer when I want to do some editing or enhancements to an existing video (slow motion, text). And I don't have the hard drive space either, I'm sure uncompressed captures of everything would easily clear 1 tb.
But the video files are different? What are they on burned dvd's and how is that different? And is there a way to check?

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They are the same type of file. Mine adds a menu file, but the Video_TS files are still there, and you can just ignore them when you copy to your hard drive. If I'm just making a cheap, quick copy of something, I use my DVDR recorder, and set it in two hour mode. If I really care, I set it to one hour mode, and record however many discs it takes to copy it, and then splice them together on my computer with Womble, or something of that nature.

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I don't have nero or imgburn. I used Sonic record now, I wasn't even trying to copy the individual files to my hard drive. I just wanted an exact copy to another disc. Do you need anything to rip the individual files? Because I don't think I could do that with Sonic.

EDIT: You mentioned how you know I have the PDI card. Would you have any suggestions about what to do to solve the problem with the image shifting up in the frame? I haven't made any real captures using the card other than a few comparisons because a cropped image is worthless to me.
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic335815.html

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There is no need to make an exact copy. You can simple copy the VIDEO_TS folder to your hdd and burn it on a new dvd with ImgBurn (it's free). Set ImgBurn "mode" to "build" and "output" to "device". When selecting the source to burn click the third icon to select a folder and select the VIDEO_TS folder. Now you can burn it (ImgBurn will burn it as a DVD-video).

Sorry I don't know how to solve the frame shifting stuff.
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