About a DVD/Video Recorder?

Question

My Christmas present was a DVD/Video recorder and I was delighted because I have lots of videos that I want to convert to dvds. There might be five mins on one video and half an hour on another, so, I thought I'd edit them and get all the footage together . I am disgusted to find that I cannot edit with this machine. It seems that once you record on a dvd, that's it! If my recording is five mins or two hours long, it can only be done once. There is no pause button and I cannot record individual tracks from different videos onto the same dvd. I'm not talking about dvd-r's, mine are rw but it makes no difference. I can record OVER my footage but cannot record ONTO it, it seems. Does anyone know a way I can do this? Someone told me I can edit on my pc but I don't have a dvd burner so that's not my solution. I'd appreciate help with this problem.

Answer 1

Copy your dvds to the hard drive of your recorder. You can only edit files on the hard drive. Most recorders allow you to merge files Or trim them then join them up to make 1 long movie, you can  Then download the finished product to a disc & Bob's yer Uncle.

Answer 2

I think editing on your computer is the only way. DVD burners have gotten really cheap. You can now pick one up for around $30 (try Newegg). They usually include a bare bones version of Nero burning software. You'll also need some sort of video editing software. The Nero suite (around $70) is considered pretty good, but I like VideoRedoPlus ($30), which supports very fast editing.  Both have free trial versions so you can try them out first.