After recording onto DVD, how do you delete commercials? Has anyone succesfully deleted sections from a Title?
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You can put chapter markers at the beginning and ending of each section of commercials. Then after doing that, you can set each section to "hidden" or to "visible". Then, of course, finalize the disk. Once you've hidden the sections you don't want to see, you will not see them when you play the disk. There are two limitations when using only chapter markers with no titles: 1) I haven't figured out how to name the chapters, so that I can select a desired chapter from a menu. 2) With DVD+RW, you have a maximum of 99 chapters within each title. I need around 150 for a particular DVD I made, so I really need to figure out how to set up titles. I tried once, but I ended up erasing most of the contents of the disk. However, the nice thing about DVD+RW is that, even after finalizing the disk, you can go back and make changes to it again. I'll bet if I simply make a copy of the disk, I can work with the copy to figure out how to do titles; if I mess it up, I'll just make another copy to experiment with.
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Joe, there is a delete function, but not on the player, per se. I use Windows Media Player and there's one on that. I hope this helps.
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ok, question that will reveal how little i know about this. you mentioned recording to DVD. Can a DVD recorder record over the air broadcasts? can you set it to record at certain times, the way you would a VCR? And can you re-record over the dvds or do you have to keep buying them? (the advantage of vhs.)thanks!
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I don't know guys, I still haven't figured it out. Reading thru other posts here is making me think I'm going to return this thing. I really thought I'd like it, but if I can't string together my video clips to burn to DVD, WHAT is the point? It doesn't seem you can ask this question at the Vado official site either w/out first entering all the numbers off the box it came in. What a pain, I don't carry the box around w/ me. They also do not have an 800# that I can find on the site to call. Frustrating! I wonder how many customers they are losing?
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Thanks. Do you know where I can find information about how to save the DVD to the HD?
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After inserting the dvd the menu options should appear. You have to format the dvd before recording and finalize after recording. When the format option appears select the yes option. It will take a few minutes to format...recording should begin afterwards.
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I just put in a DVD of .mpg and .avi files and it played them fine. No menu on the DVD, just files. It brought up a list of the files and you can select which on you wouldl like to play. Good feature.
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Have you tried it on copyrighted movies? I have a bunch of older exercise tapes that I would like to put on DVDs. Thanks,
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If you record on a DVD+R,DVD-RW,or DVD-R disc, you have to finalize the disc to play them back on other machines. This procedure is explained on pages 54 and 55 of the owners manual. You begin by pressing setup on the remote,select disc edit then press OK,use up/down arrows to select finalize then press OK,use up/down arrows to select yes then press OK. It will take several minutes to complete the process and you can monitor it with the display at the bottom of the screen. After the display shows 100%,the display will disappear and the disc will be finalized. If you record on DVD+RW disc, you do not have to finalize the disc. The DVD+RW disc can also be erased and recorded on many times. You can find this information on page 80 of the owners manual.
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The easiest way is to hit Pause when playing the movie. You'll see the settings "gear" in the upper right hand corner. Also, looking at the files in this box on my computer shows 2 files for each movie - one large, one small. I assume the small one is the subtitle file but I haven't had the nerve to delete it yet. Maybe copy and save it elsewhere then delete to find out.
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Milton, my daughter put it on a SD card I think it's called (I'm not the techno expert) and in order to edit it you have to have certain program. She has a Mac computer and it wouldn't load on mine. PS It was a total waste of money as far as I'm concerned. The sound is absolutely horrible, mumbly and behind lips moving, and it takes forever to transfer from each vhs tape cause you have to play it through. Maybe you have faster way to do it.
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I have done several recording from vhs to dvd without any problems so maybe if you could provide me a few more details I could steer you in the right direction. The instruction manual is quite complicated and it is easy to miss a important step so tell me what you did any I'll try and sort out the problem. If you have the instruction manual list the steps found in it so I can be sure you are doing the right things.
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No it cannot edit out commercials, etc. It can split a recording to separate programs, and that's all.
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In the main menu, you will find a setting called "Resume" you have to simply turn it on, that way the dvd will pick up where it left off.
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Do not erase and try to record again. just record over the dvd. on the dvd when you bring up your menuwith the edit key, it will say "play" "edit" and "overwrite". go to overwrite and click on the key and the screenwill come up with the vcr on record but it will be ' paused'. when you get ready to record hit the pause keyor the record key. Record a short show you don't want to keepand try it. I am not an expert so good luck! Edna
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Thank you.Basically, the problem I got is the pause between the clips when I write them to a DVD. So, I joined them (and the pause problom is solved) and tried to fit it to a 4.7 GB (which apparently holds 4.38GB data). And if the total size is less than 4.38GB, I could write the DVD. Else, I had to separate the single cip (which I joined before) and remove some of the clips and see how many are getting fit in 4.38GB. I think I could write it. Of course, I have to write a second DVD for rest of the clips. Thank you
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Spoke with Sony a few minutes ago that finalized dvds cannot be copied once created by the unit through normal copying methods, but the contents can then be ripped by a software utility. They mentioned Windows Live, but I am not familiar with this process. Does anybody know a good work-around?