DVD recorder question

I had asked in an earlier thread about capture devices, I got a couple
of recomendations that for what I'm doing (convert about 2 dozen VHS
to DVD) I should consider a DVD recorder.

I saw a Lite-On for $129, thinking about that. From the earlier
thread, it would seem that if I'm not going to be doing any editing,
then the DVD recorder is the way to go. I was planning on using
Premiere Elements (which I have) but on reflection, there's probably
not much I can do with the VHS tapes to enhance them.

I believe I read that you can do a "basic" cut of unwanted video by
simply stopping the recorder, playing past what you don't want, and
then restarting the recorder. But, what about combining several
short tapes onto one DVD? Can you do that with recorders?

David McCall...

A basic DVD recorder has the same capabilities as a typical
VHS video recorder. You get to add menus, and (I think) I have
one with a built-in hard drive, and it certainly can trim segments,
but I think some basic units allow you to "trim" the recorded
segment if you do it before finalizing the disk. The unwanted video
will still be on the disk, but the pointers to the start and end can
be moved. I can't verify that because I don't have that type of recorder.

Josh...

Thanks, btw, here is the recorder:

Ken Maltby...

What I do is use a RW disk in the Recorder, then bring that
frame accurate MPEG Editor for cutting and joining, it will
also improve the DVD compatibility and insure/fix lip sync.
Then simply author a new DVD-/+R.

You can also put more then one capture on the new disk. I can
quickly author, from the RW disk, to my hard drive using TDA
then use DVDShrink to create a shrunk version for later inclusion
in a new DVD-/+R. That way you can have the Recorder make
the RW DVD at it's best encoding setting for the length of time
you are recording, then do the further compression with enough
data to have a good result.

Luck;
Ken

Brian...

A pioneer DVD recorder with a hard drive is a good choice as it has
useful editing features and is frame by frame accurate when removing
parts of the video. It will also enhance the picture from a VHS tape.

Regards Brian

At costco.

David McCall...

I have not researched any of the current machines.

davesvideo...

The two examples are basicaly the same thing, and you can pretty much
do the same things you can do VCR to VCR. Provided of course you record
at a quality that will allow multiple tapes to fit on the DVD.