Re: Copying DVD-RAM to DVD-R

Mike,

You can use ULEAD's MediaStudio Pro 7.01 to extract raw MPEGs from
your DVD-RAM discs (recorded in your Panasonic DVD player/recorder)
and then copy the DVD-RAM content to DVD-R discs with great looking
menus.

You'll need a DVD drive that can read DVD-RAM discs.

I have an external Firewire/USB 2.0 Panasonic SW-9571
DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM drive that features a special "deep dish" tray
that can accept cartridged DVD-RAM media.

My drive model's tray is pictured on the Web page at the following
link:

http://www.jonesgroup.net/vdrm30steptwo.htm

Panasonic has a faster new internal model out now called the SW-9582,
which sells for $126 on the Web page at the following link:

http://avlogic.com/product.cgi?code=18030141

Insert your DVD-RAM recording into the drive and then use the ULEAD
MediaStudio Pro "DVD-VR Capture Plug-in" to copy the video/audio data
from the DVD-RAM disc to your hard drive.

Then you can edit the file - insert titles and transitions - apply
video filters, etc.

Ulead's Smart Render technology helps preserve the quality of the
original file by confining any new video rendering only to those
specific segments in your edit project where titles, transitions, or
filters have been applied.

Then use the LE version of Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 - included with
MediaStudio Pro 7 - to create your custom menus for your DVD-R.

It works great.

I purchased a Panasonic DVD disc camcorder (model VDR-M30).

This model records onto mini DVD-R discs or mini DVD-RAM discs.

I wrote a step-by-step tutorial about how to extract the video/audio
data using Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7.01 on the Web page at the following
link:

http://www.jonesgroup.net/vdrm30stepone.htm

The steps of the tutorial would work for your Panasonic DVD
player/recorder.

I bought the Toshiba D-R1 DVD player/recorder.

So I'll be posting a step-by-step tutorial featuring that model very
soon.

You can download a FREE trial version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro on the
Web page at the following link:

http://www.ulead.com/msp/trial.htm

By the way, Ulead MediaStudio Pro supports stereo AC-3 audio.

Hope this helps,

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net